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.
Never mind the fuel prices, orders for airplanes are picking up. The trickle down effect is a good one: jobs! Rockwell Collins, a manufacturer of cockpits, reports plans to hire over 800 new employees this year.
Here’s a link to current position postings. We see over 500 jobs posted for Cedar Rapids, Iowa with other jobs listed nationwide. There are a couple dozen sales, project management positions, and analyst jobs in the DC suburbs; we also see a few gigs with Rockwell Collins contractors in New York and San Francisco.
Many of the positions at Rockwell Collins are for engineers. Engineers love networking through professional associations, check out the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA). (This tip also works for jobs in other fields, by the way. Here’s a directory you can use to find associations—courtesy of JobHunt.org)
Remember all the predictions about how health needs of baby boomers would shape the economy?
Check out this CNN interview in which Stanley Bergman, CEO of Long Island based company Henry Schein discusses the impact of baby boomers and pet owners on sales. Henry Schein, the nation’s largest distributor of healthcare products and services to medical, dental, and veterinary office-based practitioners, reported sales of $2B in one fiscal quarter.
Did we mention the company also made the Fortune 2010 Most Admired Companies list?
Henry Schein has over 160 jobs listed nationwide from Melville, NY to San Francisco. You can find them here.
Making personal connections in a metro area with millions of people can be tough, here are three networking resources which can help you forge personal connections on a more manageable scale. All of these groups are active in the Big Apple, but you can find events in other local areas as well. (Bernardo says he has over 12,000 subscribers in Silicon Valley, too!)
- MeetUp.com (Go online to find groups who share your interests. Than meetup offline. Some groups are small, others—such as NY’s Tech Meet-Up—are huge. We’d be surprised if you don’t find any groups that meet your interest. If you are in the job market, check out groups in your field of interest—and groups for job seekers at-large. MeetUp groups are offered world-wide.)
- Bernardo’s List (Ever know anyone who seems to know everyone? Bernardo and his friends appear to be like this. And they list events they know about—from cocktail parties and happy hours to networking breakfasts and conferences.)
- Idealist.org (Events list covers opportunities for networking and education, with a focus on non-profit, education and social good sectors.)
Do you have any other favorite lists for finding local events and conferences in your neighborhood. Drop us a line; we’d be delighted to share them!
When I think of San Francisco and the jobs market, I think Silicon Valley. I was surprised to see that Kaiser Permanente, a healthcare HMO, has over three thousand positions listed in the Bay Area.
Named one of San Francisco’s Best Place to work by three publications in 2010 (including the San Francisco Chronicle and ComputerWorld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT), Kaiser Permanente has over 1,450 positions listed with estimated salaries of $70,000+.
Take a look.
Cloud Computing may be a popular way for software users to access data and applications, but venture-backed Vantage Data Centers is making a $300 M big bet that data centers are still necessary and essential in Silicon Valley.
If you’re in San Francisco or Silicon Valley and have an interest in hardware engineering, you can find new leads to jump start your search for a new opportunity here.
Skype has announced major hiring plans for 2011, including plans to hire 350 new employees.
Here’s a first glimpse at Skype’s new West Coast offices from SFGate.
And here are openings at Skype (or using Skype, if you aren’t picky about your office digs…)
Want to break into the pharmaceutical industry? It’s a challenging place to find opportunities, especially when you consider that most drugs submitted for evaluation never even make it through the pre-clinical testing phase required by the FDA.
According to PharmaLive, your best bet for work in the pharma industry today may be a job in regulatory, quality or clinical jobs—hiring is up over 16% since the second quarter of 2010.
You can find a sampling of positions available here. Many household names are hiring—from Becton Dickinson and Abbott Laboratories to Novartis and Johnson & Johnson. Jobs are available in cities and metro areas nationwide, from Boston, Philadelphia, and New York to Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
