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Who's Getting Hired in Tech? Q1 Numbers from ReadWriteHire

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:19:25 -0800

Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman says that hiring is harder in a downturn because the noise goes up but the quality stays the same. That's a pretty strong statement to make, but if it's true then it's all the more remarkable to see which companies are making hires now.

Our site ReadWriteHire covers new hires in tech and new media. Today we're publishing our aggregate numbers for the first 3 months of 2009. Who's hiring? Software and IT companies, social media and social networking companies and marketing and advertising firms.

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We've reported on a total of 420 hires since the first of January. The top 10 sector categories have been:

Software/IT (24%)
Social Media/Social Networking (15%)
Marketing/Advertising (11%)
Publishing/New Media (7%)
Hardware (6%)
Mobile (4%)
Gaming/Entertainment (3%)
Search (3%)
Government (2%)
Security (2%)

These numbers are quite similar to the trends we identified in the final months of 2008. The "other" category includes sectors like research and testing, VOIP and tech consulting companies.

News of those positions getting filled came from press releases and personal tips, but also from mentions of new jobs on Twitter and blog posts. We scour the web daily for cool news about people getting cool new jobs.

There are far more hires going on in total than we can currently report on, but we're working on expanding our capacity and we believe that this is a valuable data point as a semi-representative snapshot at least. We hope that the particular hires reported on ReadWriteHire will also be of interest to companies in each of these sectors. Knowing who your competitors have hired is valuable information.

If you've made a new hire or gotten a new job recently, drop us a line to let us know! You can reach us by email at jobwire@readwriteweb.com.

Congratulations to everyone who secured these increasingly difficult positions to land. Join us over at ReadWriteHire for more stories of exciting new hires every day of the week.

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HubSpot Scoops Up Marketing Hacker Dan Zarrella

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:22:31 -0800

What does the new media pro of the future look like? One snapshot can be seen in Boston marketing firm HubSpot's newest hire Dan Zarrella. Zarrella is the creator of publishing tools like Tweetbacks, a script for displaying Twitter mentions below any blog post, and a collection of plug-ins that provides instant odds of a blog post hitting Digg's front page based on the keywords in its title.

HubSpot used the new submission form on Jobwire, our site tracking new hires, to tell us about the move this morning.

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Google Scoops Up Del.icio.us Founder

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:01:33 -0800

News just broke that Google has hired Joshua Schachter, the founder of social bookmarking service Delicious. Schachter left Yahoo! six months ago, two and a half years after it acquired his groundbreaking app. We're excited to see what he does at Google.

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]]> Schachter was working on some sort of secret project and worked with Upcoming.org co-founder Andy Baio, also rich and free years after a Yahoo! acquisition of his site, on one of the coolest Greasemonkey scripts we've ever seen.

Photo: Schachter at ETech05, prior to the Yahoo! acquisition.

For more details check out our analysis on Jobwire, our site tracking new hires in tech and new media.

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PayPal Reunion: Dave McClure Joins Founders Fund

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:51:24 -0800

Startup aficionado Dave McClure has formally joined VC firm the Founders Fund as an angel investor, according to an update he made to his LinkedIn profile this week. The Founders Fund was created by former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel in 2005 and is described by author Sarah Lacy as having an ethos "rooted in giving founders better terms and getting out of their way."

Founders Fund has invested in some of the most high profile startups in the market, including Facebook and Slide.com. We covered the move in depth over on Jobwire, our site reporting on new hires in tech.

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Hiring Numbers in Tech Show Which Sectors Are Strong, Which Skills Are in Demand

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:23 -0800

We've just published aggregate stats for the past 6 weeks of new hires reported over at Jobwire today and we think the numbers are pretty interesting. Marketing and social network companies are making lots of hires and both developers and community managers/new media specialists are getting a lot of those jobs.

Join us over at Jobwire to check out our pie charts and where tech and new media companies are putting their money these days.

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SixApart Hires Pownce Founders, Closes Service

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:49:17 -0800

The team behind microblogging service Pownce announced on the company blog today that it is joining blog software company SixApart and closing Pownce in two weeks. Pownce left private beta with a big launch just 11 months ago but the service never grew beyond a core group of fans.

The Pownce team says it plans to "come back with something much better in 2009." We're excited to see what Pownce co-founders Leah Culver and Mike Malone do at SixApart; it should be a very good environment for them to innovate in.

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]]> This is the second move where well known innovators have taken their technology and brains to a bigger company and shuttered their startup that we've reported on in a week. Last week open source star Rael Dornfest sold his personal assistant startup Sandy to Twitter.

Though these startups were inspiring, we also think it quite noteworthy that even at a down time economically there are still jobs for super smart people. We covered the Pownce/SixApart deal in greater depth at our hire-tracking site Jobwire. See that coverage for more details about the technology that Pownce will bring to SixApart.

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Who's Getting Hired in Tech? Last Week's Jobwire Graphs

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:41:02 -0800

We all know the economy is in shambles and there are massive layoffs across most industries, including technology - but there are still new hires happening in tech and new media! Who's getting hired? That's what we're tracking at our blog Jobwire - the stories of lucky people with exciting new jobs.

Who's getting those jobs? What kinds of positions are being filled and in what sectors? Check out our first set of charts below from last week's aggregate activity on Jobwire to find out the answer to those questions. One interesting tidbit? Software developers are getting hired by social networking companies. If you got a job or your company made a hire in tech or new media this week - send us a note about it at jobwire@readwriteweb.com. Read on for details on how last week looked.

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]]> Hires by Title

We reported on 48 hires last week and the following is the break-out by job title. We're sure that there are more interesting hires of developers going on and we're doing our best to find them - but they are a little harder to find than some of the executive hires that get announced by companies. None the less, we find these first numbers interesting.

Hires by Sector

What kinds of companies did we report on last week? Here's the break-out by sector.

Note: "Other" includes sectors like retail, search, security and gaming this week. For specifics, see the Jobwire site.

We expect next week's numbers by sector could look very different, but we'll be tracking them closely and we'll let you know. We think that people's new jobs are a lot of fun to find out about and we think the information can prove quite valuable.

RWW Jobwire is sponsored by VisualCV and reports on about 10 new hires in tech and new media every day. We hope that you'll join us there for all the daily news about the hottest new hires.

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Twitter Hires Rael Dornfest, Shutters Values of n

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:39:55 -0800

Twitter just announced on the company blog that the company has acquired the assets of Portland, Oregon based Values of n and brought its well-known engineer founder Rael Dornfest on to the Twitter staff. Dornfest's latest project at Values of n was an anthropomorphized personal assistant service called Sandy.

We're covering the deal in more depth on our new blog about tech company hires Jobwire. Please see our coverage there for more details about what's sure to be a very interesting move.

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