Issue 39 - Results of employment survey, Twitter experiment

Hi everyone,

Hope you all are doing well. On my end, the big news is my son lost his second tooth this week. The Tooth Fairy brought him $2, which is the going rate from what I'm told. When I was 6, it was $0.25/tooth. Assuming 3% inflation from when I was 6 years old until today, we're talking $0.59 adjusted...so my kids are getting almost 3.5x what I received. This is truly a great deal, considering many more children exist today than when I was 6, and therefore the tooth supply curve is shifting higher with seemingly unchanged demand from a single Tooth Fairy.

OK, here's some community highlights:

1. JOB FAIR: The employment survey has finished after 2 weeks of collecting data. We had 323 responses, or 17% of our member base responding. Thank you! So in prep for a first-ever door64 career fair, we as a community are going to analyze this data. See here for all the details: http://door64.com/node/3562

If you're a high-tech employer in Central Texas who is interested in being a part of this job fair, please email me.

2. TWITTER: Do you use Twitter? Want to get door64.com updates as tweets? I'm trying this as an experiment. Let me know what you think!

3. NEWSLETTER SERVICE: FYI, within the next week or so I will be switching all door64.com emails (informational, newsletters) to iContact. This doesn't require any action on your part; just sit back and enjoy the view. If you encounter problems, or worse yet don't receive subsequent newsletters, please let me know.

4. GREEN TECH: I'm supporting the Green Technology Alliance, recently founded by the grassroots right here in Austin. The goal is to help build businesses that are green, sustainable and contribute to the economy here in Austin and beyond. You can sign-up for their newsletter, and consider attending their first event on Green IT. (Free, register here)

This week's news, jobs, and events on door64:

FORUMS & BLOGS
Survey response
No longer seeking employment.
Experience is a Poor Proxy for Skill
I still don't like it...
ACC AAS Graduate Resumes and Summer Job Seekers
A pretty good article about the IT skills shortage myth
Austin .NET Code Camp
Job Seeker?
Whats your first?
Seeking Work

EVENTS
Austin Women in Technology - Motion Computing - A turnaround story (TUE)
Semantic Web Meeting (TUE)
Unleash the Power of Virtualization (WED)
May Web Analytics Group Meeting (WED)
Interactive Lecture and Book Signing with Stewart Friedman (WED)
CleanTX Forum (WED)
NetParty for Young Professionals Free Biz/Social Networking Event (WED)
Austin Human Resource Management Association (THU)
RecruitMilitary Career Fair (THU)
Best practices in hiring technology employees (THU)
Austin AMA: "How to Build a Business in the Rise of Social Media" (THU)
Austin Women in Technology - Member Connect Event (THU)
Austin Social Media Club meeting (THU)
UT Weekend Engineering MS Degrees - Info Session (THU)
Austin Linux Group (AustinLUG.org) weekly meeting (THU)
Austin Leadership Forum (FRI)
Austin Jelly Coworking (FRI)
International Institute of Business Analysis (FRI)
Startup San Antonio (FRI-SUN)
Start-up Mentoring Workshop - 5th annual Rice Alliance forum for entrepreneurs (SAT)

JOBS (posted last week) -- Semiconductor, hardware, software, IT, & web design
Database Administrator
Senior Software Engineer – User Interface
Customer Support Engineer - Enterprise Web Software Support
Interactive Web Developers
HR Professional for High Tech Advertising Agency
Service Coordinator
Outside Sales Representative - Enterprise Software Sales
Development/Project Management
Austin-TX- IT Manager
Salesforce.com Administrator
Inside Sales Executive
Web Developer
Next generation website looking for Jr/Sr Rails developer
Senior Software Engineer *Management opportunity*
Senior Software Engineer-Systems & Embedded
Web Systems Engineer
Software Engineers
Configuration Manager/Build-Release Engineer
Knowledge Management Engineer
Lead Technologist
Interactive Developer

SKILL SETS (posted last week)
Device Design, Testing, Proto-typing
Haymaker
Enterprise software architect; team leader; visionary strategist
Senior Software Engineer
C-level Executive with Proven Return to Investors
Software build
HIRING MANAGERS & RECRUITERS: Look here for candidates for your Central Texas employment opportunities.

That's it. As always, if you have ideas or suggestions for door64, just drop me a line. Thanks for your involvement!

And now for something completely different: Watermelon creations.

Have a great week!

Matt Genovese
matt@door64.com
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