Steve Jobs has made his second big announcement of the week: Apple is building a spaceship like campus in Silicon Valley to house over 12,000 employees. A sketch of the new facility looks a bit like a flying saucer; you can see a picture here – and check out over 2,000 job postings at Apple in California here.
In other Silicon Valley news, we see signs of the tech hiring boom continuing — with trickle down growth in the financial services sector. Here’s a round-up:
- Financial services advisory firm Robert W. Baird is expanding their team in San Francisco with two key hires, and gunning to grow more.Co
- Data management firm Splunk has a new office in Cupertino, California to supplement staffing needs. They’re growing quickly, HQ is in San Francisco. Career info and big number of job listings here.
- Mobile app company StackMob just received $7.5 million in funding; Xconomy reports that they will also be hiring. No listings on the site; but a contact list of staffers on the site.
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Salesforce.com has over 300 posted positions with an estimated salary of $90K and above. Looks like they are feeling optimistic, they estimate revenue for 2012 at over $2.15 billion.
Here’s an additional round-up of hiring in Silicon Valley:
Interested in applying for any of these gigs? Here’s a tip—take their products for a test drive. Aside from Net5, all of these companies have services and products you could test drive as a customer. When you apply, tell them you are an avid fan of the product. Be ready with an answer of what you might change if you worked with them – most companies appreciate honest, educated feedback. Done well, it could increase your hireability.
Did you miss “Lufthansa German Airlines Day” yesterday? The City of San Francisco toasted Lufthansa in “honor of the first regularly scheduled commercial Airbus 380 flight to enter the city.”
The two story plane – the world’s largest – has 526 seats and will increase the number of people visiting San Francisco by hundreds—if not thousands. “The fleet upgrade will lead to 1,300 direct and indirect jobs in San Francisco, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu said, and generate $100 million in revenue annually.”
Look for jobs in tourism, hospitality and operations—all industries that pick up with more foot traffic. Here are 300 job listings already, 70 postings of which have a salary estimate of $100K and above.
Here are other places to look in and around San Francisco.
- In the Box. Box.Net is ranked as one of San Francisco’s Fastest growing companies and best places to work. They’ve announced plans to expand their workforce from 40 to 240 by year’s end. Open positions range from Engineering and Sales to Chief of Staff. Check ‘em out here
- Real estate investment banking firm Johnson Capital is opening a new office in Palo Alto to cater towards clients in Silicon Valley. They make deals starting at $1M and over, and have tapped local industry insider Thomas Bracken to lead the expansion effort.
- HP’s still got it. Much has been made by Google’s public plans to hire 6,200 this year, but according to CNN, HP has them beat – at 6,583 current jobs.
Here are current openings in California; we see over 420 with salaries estimated at $80K and above.
Want to work at one of these companies? Here’s a tip: Apply as soon as you see the job listing. The hard truth: many companies don’t look back after they’ve got a short list.
We recently talked to an insider at one of these companies – and she credits applying quickly with helping her get the job. In fact, her job was only listed for 48 hours.
If you’ve been watching the headlines lately, you’ve probably seen that Silicon Valley is sizzling with opportunity. Here’s a quick run down of who’s hiring:
- Dell is one of the established tech companies to hire big. They’ll open their first research center Silicon Valley later this year to focus on cloud computing, storage and networking technology, and have openly stated interest in hiring currently employed tech employees. In five years, they plan to have 1,550 employees at the center. We see 70+ job postings for Dell in the Bay Area right now, 30 of em have an estimated salary of $100K or above. Check ‘em out.
- If you don’t want to wait for a job, check out SalesForce.com – they’ve got over 750 jobs in the Bay Area alone – over 500 of which have an estimated salary of $70K
- And if you like chocolate and video games….fresh from an Intel cash infusion of $12M, Digital Chocolate is hiring game developers for San Mateo, Helsinki, Bangalore and Madrid. The company won the iPad Apps download race last year, we bet they’ll be on a stint for more.
- If no taste for video games, but you thirst to work at a Vineyard instead, check out the openings at E. & J. Gallo, we see over 60 jobs – many of which will take you far away from a cubicle and into a vineyard.
That’s what we see in the Bay Area, drop us a note and tell us what you see!
Twitter is growing its flock. The company recently received government tax incentive to stay in San Francisco and will be moving their headquarters from Folsom Street into a bigger building.
Twitter currently has 450 employees, and has over 60 job titles listed on their site. We anticipate they’ll hire more than one applicant for many of these positions. Also, expect to share your Twitter feed as part of the job search process
The lion’s share of jobs are in San Francisco, but there are also opps to work in LA, Japan, London…
If you’re interested, check out Jobs at Twitter and follow them on @jointheflock
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Social networking game creator Zynga brought you and your friends Farmville, now they’re hiring new staff in big cities nationwide from Austin, Cambridge and New York to San Francisco and Seattle (their newest office digs)
Turns out there’s a lot of money in giving your neighbor a cow; AOL reports Zynga valuation at nearly $10 billion.
Jobs available run the gamut from Analytics and Business Development to Community Management, Marketing, and Software Engineering. You can see an aggregated listing of the jobs here. 100+ jobs have salary estimates of over $100K.
If you apply and land an interview, you may want to check out interviewing tips at Glassdoor.com
Market Watch reports that McDonalds plans to hire 50,000 part and full-time workers on April 19 for 14,000 U.S. restaurants. That’s a lot of paperwork, imagine hiring managers will be eating some Big Macs with fries to get it all done.
If you don’t want to be a fry clerk, take a look beyond the news clipping: we see over 300 corporate jobs with an estimated salary of $80K+. Job locations include Chicago suburbs, New York, and San Francisco.
(Here’s a quick tip: whenever you see big PR announcements like this – think about the infrastructure involved. There are often hidden “bigger” jobs lurking beneath the surface to pull something like this off!)
Fast-growing online marketplace for limousines, Limos.com is taking a speed dating approach to hiring. The Wall Street Journal reports that – in a rush to hire 20 new employees -Limos.com is working to reduce your wait time to find out if you got an offer. Ideally, they interview and make you a same day offer.
Limos is hiring for an Account Manager in New York and sales and marketing, and engineering positions in San Francisco. You can see a list of the jobs here.
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