Hiring Is Up in Silicon Valley for High-Skill Jobs

Carl Bialik writes to tell us the Wall Street Journal is reporting that five years after the dot-com burst, job growth is finally returning to Silicon Valley. From the article: "Doug Henton, an economist and co-author of the report, says with the growth in these creative engineering jobs, a new face of Silicon Valley is emerging. 'Ten years ago, this was an engineering Valley that pumped out chips and computers,' he says. 'Now it's all about creative tech and staying on the cutting edge.'"

Comments

Re:Hiring Up! Hiring Down!-Death and taxes.

[B3ryllium]

You're going to be reincarnated as a slashdot editor, I can tell.

Following skillsets in high demand

[adnonsense]

I've done a brief survey of the jobs on offer and for your convenience here is a summary of the main qualifications being looked for this time round:

• At least 5 years proven experience in Web 2.0 techonologies
• Certification in Curvy Border Design
• Extensive experience in collaborative community-based tagging
• Have own podcast
• Have own WiFi-enabled "office" in local coffee joint

and most importantly:

• A burning belief that an AJAX-powered petfood-fashion-mashup wiki-based user-driven affiliate blog will be the next big thing

Re:Silicon Valley, first hand

[Fred_A]

I don't think I've ever heard the word "recesion"...