More Signs of SF Bay Area High Tech Job Market Warming Up

Google and Facebook continue to dominate the news media when it comes to the ever-changing Silicon Valley job market, but most of us know that any kind of warming up of the competitive employment landscape requires the broad participation of smaller companies. I believe the greater San Francisco Bay Area's high tech sector has recently shifted in the past few weeks towards more hiring.

I haven't even been paying close attention to the most obvious indicators like job board posting volume or regional unemployment claims figures, although I do pay attention to them on occasion as part of my professional responsibilities.

The indicators I have are entirely anecdotal and rather similar.

Everyone and Their Mother

This is hardly a scientifically proven or statistically backed statement, but for the past couple of months, I've noticed in the Bay Area high tech job market that:

Everyone and their mother wants a product manager!

To make my point, check these out. These are all live job links, as of this blog entry posting, in no particular order:

Bay Area Job Market Gradually Warming Back Up

I'm noticing the Bay Area high tech job market is gradually warming up from the frigid chill of the past 6 months. At my own employer, we have a handful of recently open positions in our two Bay Area locations.

Over the past month, I've received a handful of whispered leads for contract recruiting gigs at various tech companies.

Terrifying Analysis and Outlook on Global Economy

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

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A major venture capitalist firm has put together some hefty analysis and internally delivered a dire outlook to the global economy and how it will affect business conditions for their invested companies.

The scariest point they emphasized is how the recovery period to this downturn is expected to be very long, perhaps 15 years. Other pundits in the media have recently been saying one to five years for a recovery. This is scary. Terrifying.

But I'm not selling anything. Let it ride.