Joseph Walker, reporter and key contributor of FINS.com, spoke with GravityPeople’s Jeff Winter on how recent Cisco Layoffs affect the Bay Area labor market and subsequent recruiting practices utilized by recruiters and Cisco competitors.
This story comes on the heels of Cisco outperforming analyst expectations.
Read the full story here.
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Zoe Chace of NPR interviewed GravityPeople’s CEO Jeff Winter today on the Technology segment of NPR’s morning edition. The story highlighted the lower than normal unemployment rate for Bay Area technology workers and the fact that the future is looking bright for new grads as technology companies look to scoop up fresh, young talent.
The story goes on to talk about what Gravity, a leading Bay Area technology recruiting firm, has been prognosticating about for the last twelve months: technology companies are competing fiercely for talent because there’s a massive shortage of qualified candidates with experience in mobile and application development.
Check out our current job openings and have a listen, maybe you’ll be the next Mark Zuckerberg!
Last week, the San Francisco Business Times released their annual Book of Lists, a publication of listings of hundreds of the hottest Bay Area companies in their fields, by ranking. GravityPeople is excited to be listed as the 4th largest Contingency Executive Search Firm in the region. And, even more encouraging, is the fact that our direct-hire /contingent technical search business comprises only 50% of our total annual business. The other portion of our business is our growing recruitment outsourcing business that focuses on technical and other high-complexity searches.
This is not our first time making the Book of Lists. GravityPeople was named to the San Francisco Business Times “Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies” list in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Since the beginning in 1998, our goal has not changed; provide the best technology recruiting services in the recruiting industry. The recipe for our success hasn’t changed either. We respect others, work hard, and pride ourselves on having unparalleled industry knowledge.
Jeff Winter, GravityPeople
Jeff Winter, GravityPeople’s CEO has been invited to be a customer panelist at the annual Dice Holdings Investor Summit to be hosted in New York on September 30th. As a customer panelist, Jeff will participate in valuable roundtable discussions that will explore trends in recruitment advertising, new stand-out job distribution services, advertisement spend patterns and the state of the overall recruiting economy in the coming quarters.
GravityPeople, a national technical recruiting company headquartered in San Francisco, has been a Dice customer for over 12 years. GravityPeople’s client portfolio ranges from early-stage venture backed technology companies to large publicly held household names and while organizational size may vary, all of Gravity’s customers demand the best and brightest technology professionals. “Dice has always been an integral part of our overall candidate attraction strategy for both our direct-hire and recruitment outsourcing business units”, comments Jeff Winter. Jeff went on to say, “Dice.com has been our most consistent advertising resource for over decade specifically for technical talent. I’m excited to participate at the Investor Summit this year”.
Jeff’s panel starts at 11:30 AM ET and you can listen to it here: http://tinyurl.com/29jlo5h
About Dice Holdings:
Dice Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of specialized career websites for select professional communities. Dice has a 20-year track record of bringing together millions of professionals and thousands of companies through specialized career websites in several professional sectors, including technology, financial services, energy, healthcare and security clearance. Today, Dice serves multiple markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Jonathan Chenard, Vice President of Services
Jonathan Chenard, GravityPeople’s Vice President of Recruiting Services, was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle for an article on hiring in Silicon Valley. The piece appeared on SFGate.com this weekend and focused on rumors of attrition at large Silicon Valley employers like Google.
It’s true, our teams have seen attrition from nearly all of the major technology companies in the Valley but we can’t confirm any mass exoduses. As the economy continues to improve, technology workers are presented with more opportunities, many of which are at start-ups. Tech professionals are again frequently weighing all of their options both internally and now, more often, externally. Large companies which are commonly thought of as “safe harbors” during tough economic times (often mistakenly) are once again being forced to take talent acquisition (and retention) seriously as the technology labor market has again become very competitive. In fact, in June, we reported the shift from an employer’s market to a candidate’s market in a blog post that you can read here.
About GravityPeople:
GravityPeople is a leading recruitment outsourcer providing direct-hire and hourly recruiting services. Established in 1998, GravityPeople has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area Technology community for over decade. Now with a national focus, GravityPeople provides strategic technical recruiting services to clients across North America. To learn more about GravityPeople’s services from employers click here. To see a list of GravityPeople open positions, click here.
We’re always looking for ways to identify trends. Where are the jobs? More importantly, where are the positions that we’ve been asked to fill? This week, our research department put together a little experiment using Google Maps. The map below plots out the location of all of our jobs by city. If you click on the marker, it will take you to the actual job description. You can apply here too! Your application will go directly to the technical recruiter handling the position.
View GravityPeople Job Locations July 2010 in a larger map
“We use cutting-edge technology to do this or that.” How many times have you heard this? We hear it all the time. In fact, we say it on our website. So we decided to actually show you the cutting-edge technology that we use to manage Gravity On-Demand, our contract recruiting / hourly recruiting service.
The video that we chose to showcase the applicant tracking software that we provide each of our Gravity On-Demand customers depicts a staffing meeting. We chose this because it demonstrates the level of visibility and accountability we provide each of our customers. We offer the software as a part of every engagement at no charge. Whether you choose to use it or not is up to you. Regardless, we use it to manage our team. After all, we’re performance minded and need a way to pinpoint bottlenecks and continually look for ways to be more efficient.
So here’s how we run interactive staffing meetings. The cool thing is that whether we’re running a meeting like this for you or not, anyone can access these metrics anytime. Beat’s the old staffing spreadsheets huh? We think so.
Take a look. We think you’ll be surprised. We truly do offer a cutting-edge system that’s really powerful, user-friendly and one that even hiring managers love because they can use it without any special training.
Labor Attorney, Jon Hyman
As a recruiting firm, we interact with HR professionals every day. As professional headhunters, we’re trained on what questions we can ask candidates and what questions to avoid, not everyone has this type of specific training. Recently, we tuned in to NED for a podcast on the basics of what companies need to be thinking about in terms of being an equal opportunity employer. We figured we’d share the podcast with you.
There are a couple of takeaways that are really interesting. One, it’s imperative that employers do a yearly audit of their recruiting processes to avoid trouble. This makes perfect sense and will likely help employers realign their recruiting program (many need it). Second, did you know that in most states it’s mandatory to collect and store specific EEO / AA related data even when you have just 15 employees? This was a surprise to us. So, if you haven’t already started to think about EEOC regulations, we suggest you start.
It’s on – technology hiring is in full swing. For the past 12 years we’ve proven to be a leading indicator of market conditions, especially for the technology markets: people stop hiring when things get scary (see last year), and they start hiring when things look good. We’ll be the first to tell you, things are looking very good. And, as if you needed any more proof, we’re actively hiring technology recruiters and recruiting account managers in our San Francisco office.
So what’s hot? We get asked this question all the time. And, as the most established recruitment outsourcer in the Bay Area, we keep a keen eye on the trends.
Here’s our list of the hottest technology jobs in the Bay Area.
iPhone Developers: While Apple continues to dominate the worldwide mobile handset markets with its iPhone, makers of Android phones are gaining ground and the demand for Android developers is beginning to heat up too.
Marketing Jobs: Often some of the first to get cut, marketing jobs are making a comeback in a big way in Silicon Valley. From media buyers to marketing directors, technology companies are spending on rebuilding marketing departments.
Product Management: Many technology companies have quit treading water and are designing new products, attacking new verticals and expanding into emerging markets. Innovation is making a comeback and product management professionals are enjoying a market full of opportunities.
