Update on Job Market from Washingtonian’s Harry Jaffee
If you follow DC media companies including NPR and the Washington Post you should watch Harry Jaffee’s video blog (vlog) update. He provides some details about potential layoffs and cutbacks at both organizations in his video.
DC Job Market Conditions
There has been quite a bit of talk about the national economy, including bailouts and buyouts lately, but not so much talk about the DC job market. Here are a few details on where the DC job market is relative to the national economy.
The US economy has been headed down…
(DJIA)
And the national unemployment rate has […]
AIA Jobs Campaign
Judy Bradt, a government contracting guru who I met at a recent conference posted an interesting article to her blog talking about the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) $2 million dollar ad campaign to remind the government and the incoming Obama Administration that budgets allocated to their members’ projects account for a lot of jobs. Very […]
Featured Event: DC ACM Panel: The State of the Washington DC Job Market
The DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (DC ACM)is a professional chapter of ACM has a wide range of IT professionals, and will hear from panelists representing various constituencies within the DC technology community tonight. This panel explores in further detail the regional characteristics (Northern Virginia, Maryland, downtown) and the types of employment […]
Hard Times Create Opportunities in Hiring
When my team started working with hiring teams in the field (think college and local job fairs) everyone wanted to be positioned next to Google. It wasn’t enough to be in a great location because Google was the employer magnet as far as everyone was concerned. Before that I talked to many a chief executive […]
Layoff Roundup
There have been a lot of reports about layoffs in the startup and digital media space, so we’ve rounded up of many of them here. Let us know if you’ve heard of any others. I’ll point out that most of these reports are outside of the DC area, and also point out that I have […]
Post Election Political Job Hunters
Marci Alboher wrote a nice article for the New York Times titled ‘Politicos Scramble for New Jobs Like So Many Other Americans‘ that talks about what happens for campaign staff, win or lose. As a former campaign staffer and political jobs list host for more than 10 years I can relate to what she’s talking […]
Obama’s Hunts for a CTO
With every new executive there is a transition team that acts as a search and vetting committee. DC based Launchbox Digital’s Julius Genechowski has signed on to help with the technology search and vetting on for Obama’s transition team. If the Launchbox portfolio (and founder portfolios) are any indication, this White House is going to […]
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