Selasa, 09 Agustus 2011

Asia Pacific: Hot bed for engineering jobs?

Apparently engineering haven is here, according to an excellent article by Ron Schneiderman for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

He noted that the Asia-Pacific region, or APAC, is home to more than 60 percent of the world's population and many of its largest and most successful high-tech companies. So it's not surprising that the region is a hotbed of recruiting for technical professionals--especially engineers.

“Intel announced in February that it planned to hire 1000 software engineers this year, many of whom will be in Asia,” he wrote, quoting Lori Weber, Intel's global hiring director who said that the company had already hired around 50 percent of its initial goal by recruiting a combination of experienced and college graduate candidates.

Without giving any numbers, Webersaid some of the newly-hired software engineers will be based in Shanghai and India. "We will continue hiring outside the United States as needed to support our presence in the overseas markets, which generate approximately three-fourths of Intel's revenues."

Shneiderman also noted that Microsoft likewise has more than 100 openings for mostly software engineers in China and almost that many slots for engineers in India.

“Apparently in response to an increasingly competitive environment in recruiting and retaining top technical talent (Google gave out 10 percent pay raises this year), Microsoft says that beginning in September it will offer raises in salary and stock awards to attract and retain staff. As CEO Steve Balmer wrote in an internal e-mail to Microsoft employees, "... the changes we're rolling out will help ensure Microsoft continues to be the place that top talent comes to change the world."

Check out more of the article at the magazine’s online site.

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Kamis, 04 Agustus 2011

8TV channel Eyes On You - Eyes On JobsDB

Is Gen-Y known as a group of employees that tires bosses and managers because of their unpleasant working attitude?

Is Gen-Y is a group of more frequent job-hoppers compared to older generation?

Is Gen-Y has too much over-confident to request for high-pay without experience / skills and are contributing unrealistic ideas?

Well, there are too many stereotyped perceptions have placed into Gen-Y, but how true is it? Should we really look deep inside and analyse what the actual truth is?

8tv Eyes on You - JobsDB8TV has come to JobsDB to do an interview on how employers perceive Gen-Y as far as employment and hunting for jobs is concerned; and why Gen-Y has been reflected negatively. Let's discover more from Gen-Y and employers in this coming Sunday (7 August 2011), 12pm on 8TV channel Eyes On You (凡事两极话) programme. Stay tuned!

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