If you’ve been in a doctor’s office recently, chances are good you’ve seen a product developed by Welch Allyn, a medical device manufacturer based in Skaneateles, NY—a stone’s throw from Syracuse. Welch Allyn makes everything from exam lamps and stethoscopes to blood pressure cuffs, and are currently hiring for 40 positions, the majority of which are based in NY state. You can see the jobs here.
Indications are strong that this might just be a company worth moving for if you like the work: the company has an employee retention rate of 94% and has been recognized as one of Fortune’s 100 Best Place to Work. Earlier the week, Welch Allyn CEO and President Julie Shimer was tapped to lead New York State’s key agency for growing jobs.
Twice a year, Tori Johnson and her team roll out the red carpet for female job seekers and employers at her Women for Hire career expos. The events are more than a traditional hotel ballroom with employer tables and job seekers: Women for Hire expos also offer early morning seminars with career pros.
New York: Mar. 31
Chicago: Apr. 6
Dallas: Apr. 12
Atlanta: Apr. 14
Washington, DC: Apr. 20
Advance registration is preferred. Don’t see an employer you’re interested in on the list? You may want to go anyway: Events are also big networking events. The person you end up standing next to in line for coffee may have just the contact you need.
Source: Women for Hire
If you check out some of the big aggregators it seems like Oracle posted a HUGE number of new jobs in the last few days. if you look at the oracle.com site…it seems that this surge is vastly overly reported. That said, there are lot of really solid, good paying sales positions open.
Golf Town (golftown.com) has negotiated a 22,432-square-foot lease in a former Linen ‘N Things location at The Crossing at Walkers Brook in Reading. According to this article, a new store will open in this location at the end of March. If you have aways wanted to use the phrase ‘let the club head do the work’ multiple times a day in a professional setting…you may want to check it out.
4,000 customers.
Revenue doubling.
New $32M investment from folks like Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce.com.
= hiring.
Here are the jobs.
Boston Business Journal just published their fastest growing private companies in Boston. The 54 companies on the list all had revenue growth of 20%+ in 2010. You’ll recognize many names if you’re a devotee of StartWire New…but there are some great, new, fast-growing employers in the list. Check them out here.
The Brooklyn Brewery, a producer of craft beer, hires 48 employees now. Fox News reports plans to double their headcount within the next three years. Producing the equivalent of 1.5 million cases in 2010 didn’t fully satisfy customer so the company is expanding their production facilities. Bigger capacity to produce equals bigger capacity to hire.
No jobs posted yet but we see over 139 beer-related jobs brewing nationwide, from Denver and Portland to Boston, Chicago, DC and Newburgh, New York.
Accredo Health, a Memphis-Based provider of specialty pharmaceuticals, boosted profits for 2010 by 19% to an all-time record of $11.3B. A subsidiary of Jersey-based Medco Health Solutions, Accredo is currently hiring for 100 positions.
You can see some of the available postings here.
Source: Memphis Daily News
Hard to believe that the company Crain’s New York named the best place to work in the Big Apple is short on candidates? Nonetheless, ZocDoc, a company which helps private citizens make doctor’s appointments, has launched an aggressive campaign to expand staff nationwide by 165 over the next 90 days.
They’ll be hiring for 150 sales jobs, and 15 in engineering. Lots of jobs in New York, with sales executive jobs just about everywhere from Boston to Austin, and San Francisco to LA, Philly, and DC…
The best way to get in the door? Get an introduction into the company…ZocDoc CEO says, “We need the best people, and the best people come from referrals.” Don’t have any contacts? Check out this how-to from JT O’Donnell.
P.S. Did we mention there’s a “get” if you give this lead to someone else?
Make a successful referral into ZocDoc, you’ll be rewarded with an iPad2 and a $1,000 donation to the company of your choice.
Wells Fargos is on the fast track to hire employees for 404 banks in and near the Washington Beltway. Their goal: to hire 1,000 new employees by May.
Jobs run the gamut from tellers and personal bankers to store management. It’s quite possible that a few will also be focused on marketing: The staff-up is being done in advance of Well Fargos re-branding campaign. Currently, openings are in branches operating under the Wachovia brand—acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008. Come fall, they’ll be known as Wells Fargo.
Want the 411 on these positions? Look under both Wells Fargo and Wachovia. (And if in the Bay Area or Charlotte, check out opportunities there, too. Still lots of hiring elsewhere, too.)
