July Happy Hour Recap

Here are the door64 Austin LinkedIn Happy Hour photos from our July 16th, 2008 event. Thanks to Eugene Hsu for snapping all these great shots!
Flickr Photo Stream

The exact count of attendees is currently being determined. Folks started arriving at 5:30pm, and we were there well past 9pm. Thanks again to Freescale Semiconductor for sponsoring this networking event!

door64 High-tech Career Fair and Networking Night

Submitted by matt on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 8:16am.
08/07/2008 - 3:00pm
08/07/2008 - 9:00pm

The first-ever door64.com High-tech Career Fair and Networking Night will be on Thursday, August 7th from 3-9pm in Austin, Texas.

This unique combo event starts by helping local tech professionals find the right next career move, and ends with an evening of networking with your industry peers in a friendly social setting. So whether you're actively looking for that next opportunity, or you're wanting to expand your local professional network while enjoying food, drinks, and door prizes, this event has something for you!

Visit here to RSVP:  http://door64.com/careerfair (must be logged in to door64 to register.)

Employers:  Learn about participating in this event.

A BIG thanks to LinkedIn and Rackspace for generously sponsoring this event!




High-tech Job Survey Results

In preparation for the upcoming career fair & networking event (date and location TBD), I just finished running a two-week survey of door64 members to assess aspects of our local job market. We had 323 responses.

Instead of me trying to analyze all the data alone, and in the spirit of social media, I'm publishing the raw data for the community to analyze. I removed all private field data, and removed "bad" data (obvious duplicates when someone hit SUBMIT twice, no answer submissions, etc.)

Let's use this thread to discuss trends we find. Our conclusions will help me find the right employers to invite to the event.

Here's the raw data in Excel 2003 format. Please comment here (must be logged in)

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

An Experiment: Breaking into the Tweetspace

Recently I've starting using Twitter, and I see the usefulness of microblogging. I also decided to try an experiment with pushing door64 updates on Twitter for those who are interested. The tweets happen in real-time.

If you're already a Twitter member, you can follow door64_Texas. You will start seeing updates when new information is posted on door64. I'm prefixing tweets with hashtags to categorize updates, as follows:

#EV: Event calendar
#DF: Discussion forum
#BL: Blog
#JB: Job opportunity
#SK: Skill set

Comment below if you find this useful, and/or have any suggestions!