I have often wondered why the tech job postings are so sparse in Austin (compared to other places I have worked -- Houston, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento...). Austin is, after all, a decently sized city, and a very attractive place to live and work. The economy here has a definite technological bias: Semiconductors, Software, Hardware, Web Hosting...
It has corporate headquarters for many major corporations, and Home Depot and Hewlett Packard have huge data centers here. Then there are all of the Texas state agencies which employ many tech workers...
Why, then, do we have such a drought in employment requisitions here? My wife theorizes that there are lots of tech job req's here, but that there is an insider network which is privy to these openings, and many job openings, therefore, do not get published. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I do not dismiss this possibility.
Or does it have more to do with Austin being weird? By that I mean that the techniques for locating jobs in Austin do not follow the same paradigm as in other cities. If this is the case, can someone decode the Austin methodology?
Any thoughts?
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