Question: What do Google, Facebook, Groupon and Amazon have in common?
Answer: All have formally or through their employees been recruiting in Minnesota in the past year. There are at least another half dozen well funded Silicon Valley startups doing the same.
(hold on… I am waiting for that to sink in for a moment)
With IT unemployment less than 2%, companies of all sizes from the Fortune 500 to the smallest of startups are recognizing that recruiting in Minnesota has been challenging.
For some the challenge has been a nuisance but not an impossible task.
For others… not having appropriate staff levels is costing business.
To set the stage a little bit, it is important to know that for many in IT, the “Great Recession” was a non-event. … [Read More…]