BDPAConnect Diversity Career Fair * March 15-16, 2017

BDPA is proud to host the BDPA Connect Virtual Career Fair on March 15-16, 2017.  BDPA plans to connect candidates and companies to fill important technology positions and promote diversity initiatives in information technology, computer science and related STEM fields.

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BDPA Connect is a two-day virtual recruiting operation sponsored by BDPA, Pink Tech, VetJobs and Professional Diversity Network. Technology candidates from across the USA will be invited to search opportunities.

2015 Blacks Gone Geek IT Job Outlook

Did you know that the current employment in the IT sector can be best described as a tale of two markets? In general there is high demand for professionals with specialized skills and then there is the rest of the market with unemployment still in the pre-recession double digits. The trend tells a story of a market in sharp demand for Knowledge workers but a dismal performance for those continuing to seek employment in low skill jobs.

The only way to get ahead and stay ahead in this challenging job market is to constantly distinguish yourself from the competition by demonstrating great performance and maintaining highly marketable skills.

But what are the highly marketable skills for IT professionals today? Every year National BDPA past president Milt Haynes conducts a Blacks Gone Geek Readers Poll to tap into the "Wisdom of the Crowd" because we want you to know what's happening in the "real world".

Please take this short 5-minute survey. Your valuable input will provide insight into where IT jobs are growing and highlight the current and future trends in the industry. Please take action today!

Survey results will be published on Blacks Gone Geek website (www.blacksgonegeek.org) in December.

Click here to take survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015ITJobOutlook

Corporate America, Your Future STEM Professionals Aren’t Attending Career Fairs Anymore

Like the Western black rhino, hieroglyphics and video stores, college career fairs may soon be a relic of the past - particularly when it comes to recruiting software engineers.

Undergraduate enrollment in computer science programs continues to rise impressively, growing by double digits year-over-year. Pair that with the fact that employer demand for computer science majors is very steep - with CS majors earning some of the highest starting salaries in the country - it's obvious that computer science and engineering knowledge is more valuable today than ever before. So why are universities and employers alike scrambling to keep up? Why is it seemingly so difficult to find skilled developers?

Read the rest of this TechCrunch article.

Over 465 IT Jobs Posted on BDPA Job Board

BDPA is very pleased to let you know that Dell, Health Care Service Corporation and the University of Cincinnati recently subscribed to the new BDPA Job Board – www.ITDiversityCareers.com. BDPA feels great momentum from Corporate America as they seek to recruit diverse information technology talent. These folks want to hire you and those you know through BDPA. Our response needs to be demonstrated by increased uploading of BDPA member resumes!

Job postings in the past week (Dec 20-27, 2012) were shared with us by almost 30 companies, including: Advance Central Services, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, CarMax, Cisco Systems, City of Grand Rapids, Core Media Systems, Covidien, DataEdge Consulting, Farmer’s Insurance, Faulkner State, Home Depot, International Technology Solutions, Johnson Controls, Laitram, Long Branch School District, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Matlen Silver Group, Param Consulting Services, Perry Systems, Quest Diagnostics, Renaissance Manor on Cabot, S Cube Soft, Smart Source Technologies, Strategic Resources International, Texas A&M University, UnitedHealth Group, Via Christi Health and Wells Fargo Bank.

Where do you live? Over the past week we have seen job postings on the BDPA Job Board – www.ITDiversityCareers.com – in the following 14 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Don’t miss your chance to find a career opportunity that has been created just for your unique skill set. Upload your current resume and allow the new BDPA Job Board – www.ITDiversityCareers.com – to match you with your perfect job! We have 468 current jobs posted today! Share this information with any IT professionals that you know who are unemployed or under-employed. Sign up today to learn more: www.ITDiversityCareers.com

We also want you to consider being a workshop presenter at the 35th annual BDPA Technology Conference on August 14-17, 2013 in Washington DC.

www.slideshare.net/BDPAFoundation/2013-bdpa-conference-call-for-presenters

BDPA is going to have the largest gathering of African American IT professionals on the North American continent next year and we want you to be there! Get your Django on … plan to join BDPA next year in Washington DC!

BDPA exists to advance the careers of African Americans and others in the IT industry from the classroom to the boardroom. Your action is simple – (a) upload your resume to our new BDPA Job Board and (b) save the date for next year’s conference! Feel free to reach out to BDPA by phone (301.584-3135) or email (careers@bdpa.org) if you have questions or wish to discuss further!

High Tech Solution to Low Tech Cities in Crisis

Guest Post by Bree Hernandez.  Ms. Hernandez is a researcher and writer from the Seattle area, please contact her if you're interested in working on a post: breehernandez10@gmail.com

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According to many recent reports -- some of which have been analyzed on these pages -- the future of jobs in the U.S. is likely in technology. This means that investing in science and computer education is smart both for students and local communities. In today’s post blogger Bree Hernandez, who writes predominantly about how to get into college, takes a look at how graduate programs in the IT sector may have the potential to help boost cities’ economic profiles while also improving job prospects for graduates.

Using Masters Programs to Attract New Companies Could be Exactly What Ailing Cities Need

Technology has been mounting a slow ascent in the American job market, and may actually be the saving grace this country needs to emerge from the slump of the past few years. More jobs are being created in the computer science and tech sectors than in any other, and cities that place an emphasis on high-tech ventures are seeing much faster economic recoveries than are those that remain focused on industries of the past—straight manufacturing, for instance, or market retail. In nearly all cases, the cities experiencing the biggest tech “booms” are home to universities with robust computer science programs, particularly at the masters and PhD levels. There is certainly an argument for sponsoring these sorts of programs in order to revitalize nearby economies.

Entrepreneurial students will often stay nearby post-graduation and start new ventures; existing tech companies are also attracted to areas with wide swaths of trained workers. There is a better argument for a Microsoft or a Facebook to open offices in an area where there is a broad pool of interns and new graduates to hire than someplace with little going on, tech-wise—when the talent is already there, setting up shop is often no harder than filtering through resumes and making hires. Relocating personnel tends to be much harder.

Growth of Tech Jobs in New Economy

Many of the new jobs being created today are classified as “technical.” Information technology officers, network architects, and coders are in very high demand—in fact, many companies are having a hard time actually filling the slots they have for many of the most involved jobs. The training required is often intense. Those with graduate degrees in tech-specific areas are accordingly sought after.

“Across most sectors of the economy we see the number of jobs shrinking,” Pamela Passman, a former corporate vice president at Microsoft, told National Public Radio back in 2010. “We see jobs in the IT sector growing—not as much as in past years—but there still is growth.”

That growth has continued to expand, but it is not ubiquitous. Most of the time, these jobs—many of which are very high-paying and come with astounding advancement potential—are centered in certain job “hubs.”

Finding the Jobs, and Understanding Why They Are Where They Are

California’s Silicon Valley has long been the go-to region for this sort of work, and companies like Apple and Google are thriving there. The area is fed by powerhouse universities like Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley, but also attracts top innovators from all over the world.

When Forbes magazine in 2012 compiled a list of the “best cities for tech,” however, the Valley was not at the top of the list. “Even though the current boom has sparked an impressive 8% expansion in the number of tech jobs in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area over the past two years, and 10% over the past decade, the area still has 12.6% fewer STEM jobs than in 2001,” the report said. San Jose ranked 7th; nearby San Francisco came in at 13th.

Seattle and its surrounding suburbs took first place.

“Its 12% tech job growth over the past two years and 7.6% STEM growth beat the Valley’s numbers,” Forbes said. “More important for potential job-seekers, the Puget Sound region has grown consistently in good times and bad, boasting a remarkable 43% increase in tech employment over the decade and an 18% expansion in STEM jobs.”

The Seattle metro area is home to both Microsoft and Amazon, as well as a growing number of tech start-ups and high-powered entrepreneurial ventures. Larger corporations often have the potential to recruit nationally, but smaller ventures often look to nearby universities as feeder programs.

The University of Washington: A Case Study in Tech CreationSeattle’s University of Washington has invested tremendously in its tech curriculum, which many believe is one of the leading reasons for the region’s jobs boom in this sector. The Washington State Legislature in 2012 approved a budget boost for the school’s computer science division, and grants from private companies—Amazon included—have given the school profound strength at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. More students are enrolling in these programs, and are leaving with the expertise local businesses need to grow and thrive. Many of the jobs new graduates find are directly in the IT sector, but not all are. Technical training has a way of bleeding into other industries, making manufacturing and even agriculture smarter and more efficient.

Birmingham: A Contrast in Priorities

Cities without strong university computer science programs tend to lack the high-tech jobs that are spurring the economy in so many places. Birmingham, Alabama is one such place. Birmingham’s economy is centered on traditional industries. There is nothing inherently wrong with this approach, but it may be leading to stagnation where new jobs and growth are concerned.

“We’re adding enough jobs to tread water but not to make much progress in bringing down the slack that remains,” Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp. in Birmingham, told Bloomberg in early November. “The labor market is consistent with the middling growth we’ve seen in the overall economy.”

The city’s primary university, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, has a strong college of Arts and Sciences, but is not well known for its tech sector. Its top-ranked graduate programs are all in the health sciences. While useful surely, these will not encourage high-tech companies to look to Birmingham as any sort of hot-spot, at least not anytime soon.

Cutting-edge technology programs are not the only way for cities to crawl out of the recession, but they do hold a lot of promise. Committing to train the next generation to take jobs in the high-tech sector has proved smart for Seattle and cities up and down both coasts—Washington, D.C., Boston, and the San Francisco-Bay Area included. With so many opportunities in technology, it makes a lot of sense to lay the early groundwork for future investments now.

BDPA Offers 540 IT Job Openings and a Webinar to Solve Your Resume Dilemma

Thinking about your information technology career? There are 540 job openings currently available through the new BDPA Job Board – www.ITDiversityCareers.com. Upload your current resume and view career opportunities from all regions of the nation. Upward mobility is in your future. Share this information with any IT professionals that you know who are unemployed or under-employed. Sign up today or learn more.

Are you interested in how to gain experience, revamp your resume, and market yourself so you can land a job in IT? Join BDPA for our upcoming Real Talk webinar on building up your resume.

BDPA Atlanta is offering a webinar entitled ‘The Resume Dilemma: Not Enough Experience’ by Jacqueline K. Sanders on Thursday October 25, 2012 @ 7pm EDT. This webinar will focus on tips for building up your resume so that you can land a job in the IT field. Attend this webinar on 'cracking the code' to getting a job in IT. This webinar is about applying the ‘experience factor’, seeing results and making it work for you.

BDPA exists to advance the careers of African Americans and others in the IT industry from the classroom to the boardroom. Your action is simple – (a) upload your resume to our new BDPA Job Board and (b) register to attend the webinar later this week!

Feel free to reach out to BDPA by phone (301.584-3135) or email (careers@bdpa.org) if you have questions or wish to discuss further!

BDPA Member Insights About ITDiversityCareers.com

A brand new BDPA Job Board - www.ITDiversityCareers.com - is now open and ready for business! We would love to hear what job seekers and recruiters have to say about this new job board.

One of the first to share her review of this new member service is Portia Westbrooks. Portia is a BDPA Chicago chapter member and a recruiting and diversity consultant. You can follow Portia on Twitter: @IT-Head_Hunter1. She wrote:

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Portia Westbrooks

National BDPA’s ITDiversityCareers is an excellent job resource connecting IT professionals with employers. Job seekers can search nationwide for technology careers in many sectors. BDPA is recognized as the premier organization for African American information technology professionals. Corporate Sponsors ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to 'Fortune 100' corporations post job opportunities regularly and have access to a resume database of diverse technical talent. The number of job postings and resumes are continuing to grow.

The site is user friendly and registration is quick & easy. Even the most passive job seeker can have jobs meeting their search criteria created by My Job Search Agents, e-mailed to them or sent via RSS feed. The same person can post their resume “anonymously” and Recruiters can easily find them while sourcing resumes.

More active job seekers may want to utilize tools available to stay organized by tracking saved jobs and their job application history. The candidate dashboard is simple to navigate. There is even a function to add a photo to your profile if you wish!

Employers and IT professionals are successfully connecting using ITDiversityCareers. It is a benefit of BDPA membership that is shared with ALL technology professionals. Login or Create new Account today.

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Have you had a chance to visit the new BDPA Job Board yet? If so, would you like to share your insights or review with us?

BDPA Job Board - www.ITDiversityCareers.com

Have you visited the BDPA Job Board yet?

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Over the past few years, we’ve heard from a lot of business and hiring managers that they find it hard to find qualified IT professionals and IT-minded businesspeople to fill vacant jobs in their organizations. We’ve also heard from IT pros who say that, in a world where anyone can claim to be able to “do IT,” it’s hard to stand out from throngs of job seekers on high-volume sites such as Monster.com and Indeed.com.

BDPA is pleased to announce that we’ve launched a new jobs board to connect diverse IT talent with progressive employers in Corporate America. We believe that BDPA’s strong reputation in and focus on the IT community, coupled with the very high traffic volume our site receives, will mean our jobs board will be valuable to job seekers and employers alike.

Visit the BDPA Job Board Today
www.ITDiversityCareers.com

CompTIA Creates Corporate Career Registry for Veterans

CompTIA is looking for a few good companies to enlist in an effort to put U.S. military veterans to work in the tech industry after they've served. The IT industry group launched a new corporate registry of companies committed to hiring soldiers, sailors and Marines in civilian jobs once they leave the military.

A part of CompTIA's Troops to Tech Careers program, the registry will give veterans and their spouses the inside scoop on jobs at companies that sign up. Started up in August, Troops to Tech was created to smooth over the sometimes difficult transition between the battlefield and the boardroom that many veterans feel acutely. At the moment there are currently an estimated one million veterans out of work and between 2011 and 2016 more than one million more service members are expected to return from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to seek employment outside the military.

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The military has a high percentage of African American veterans. Perhaps that is reason enough for BDPA to support this effort. What say u?

Annual Recruiters Roundtable (BDPA Philadelphia)

BDPA Philadelphia chapter is hosting its Annual Recruiters Roundtable on October 19, 2011.   This is a forum that will facilitate gaining knowledge of current and future trends for information technology (IT) and IT related fields. This forum presents a wonderful opportunity to network with hiring managers across multiple industries. 

According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, "58,300 IT jobs have been added in the last 12 months" while other industries are seeing job losses.

We encourage our BETF-Blog readers in the greater Philadelphia area to participate in this lively and candid discussion on the steps you should take to get the job and to stay competitive. 

Date:  Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Time:  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Location:
CIGNA Insurance Building, Liberty Two
1601 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19192

The following companies have been invited to participate: Abington Hospital, CIGNA, City of Philadelphia, FBI, JPMorgan Chase, McKesson, Merck & Company, Qwest Diagnostic, RealMedia24/7, SaberSource and Sunguard.

Resumes will be accepted during this event.  You can also upload your resume with BDPA.

Please contact the chapter's VP-Education Sally McNamara if you have questions or wish to discuss further.   Click here to RSVP for this event!

JPMorgan Chase Career Fair (BDPA Northern Delaware)

JPMorgan Chase in conjunction with Northern Delaware Chapter will be hosting a career expo:  

Date: Thursday, September 29th

Location: 500 Stanton Christiana Road, Ops1, Newark, DE 19719
Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pm ET

Business Attire recommended. Please bring resumes and valid ID.

Click here for more information.

For questions regarding the expos, please contact Ari Fleeman, ari.fleeman@chase.com.

Seeking TECHie Camp Instructors in Cincinnati, Dallas and Philadelphia

We are still looking for Techie Camp instructors willing to earn $1,000 for a week's worth of work with some 3rd-8th graders.

• Cincinnati -1 instructor, web development (3rd-5th graders)
• Dallas - 4 instructors, web development and programming (3rd-5th graders)
• Philadelphia - 2 instructors, web development and programming (5th-8th graders)

Interested?

Apply Immediately -- http://techcorps.org/jobs/99-techie-camp-instructor

We are hopeful that this is a great opportunity for a BDPA entrepreneur interested in contract work ... or one of our unemployed or under-employed BDPA members. 

Please share this opportunity with anyone who could benefit from this contract opportunity?

Seeking TECHie Camp Instructors in Cincinnati, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington DC

BDPA Education and Technology Foundation (BETF) has been working with Tech Corps to see if we could encourage local BDPA chapters to expand their STEM-based training to include elementary- and middle-school students.    Our planning has reached the point that we are now ready to interview and hire instructors willing to work with these 3rd-8th grade students.

There is a wonderful opportunity for our BDPA members who are unemployed, underemployed ... or for those of you that are consultants open to a quick 1-week contract opportunity ... or for those of you that are college students seeking summer employment opportunity.

We are looking to IMMEDIATELY interview and select instructors for TECHie Camp programs that BDPA plans to pilot in Cincinnati, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington DC. TECHie Camp is a full-day, week-long technology experience designed specifically for elementary and middle school students. The goal of TECHie Camp is to engage students in activities that can stimulate a deeper interest in technology; as well as provide opportunities for them to express their imaginations. Each camp has two instructors and up to 20 students.

Interested?

Apply IMMEDIATELY -- http://techcorps.org/jobs/99-techie-camp-instructor

The BDPA Insider - January 2, 2011

What better way to start the day than with your weekly message from BDPA!

Happy New Year!!! 

In this issue:

1. 2011 BDPA Chicago Chapter Awards Banquet
2. BDPA Detroit Chapter History (1981-2001)
3. BDPA Fosters Technology Education
4. Black Enterprise Magazine - Cyberwise
5. Careers in IT - Typical Career Path
6. Complete Guide to Accredited Online Colleges
7. GEEKS GONE GREAT goes One on One with Dr. Randal Pinkett
8. How to Answer the 'Tell Me About Yourself' Interview Question
9. Job Growth Is Likely Next Year. The Question Is: How Much?
10. The job market is improving for African Americans in IT

Soulclap to Milt Haynes for putting this weekly compilation together for us!

This Week in BDPA (Dec 12-18)

BDPA has 45 chapters around the nation. You can always find programs, services or networking activity here or here. BDPA supports your efforts for career advancement in the IT industry. Our hope is that you will continue to support Our Cause!

Are you taking advantage of these programs? Here is a weekly preview of upcoming events gathered from the centralized BDPA calendar :

• Dec 14: National BDPA - Conference Call, 'Job Seekers Forum'
• Dec 15: St. Louis - Networking, 'Holiday Celebration'
• Dec 16: Baltimore, Northern Virginia and Washington DC - Networking, 'Annual Holiday Event and Open House'
• Dec 16: Greater Columbia - Networking, 'Annual Holiday Meeting'
• Dec 17: Philadelphia - Networking, 'Annual Pink Slip Networking Event'
• Dec 17: New York - Networking, 'Holiday Party and SITES Fundraiser'
• Dec 17: New Jersey - Networking, 'Annual Holiday Celebration'
• Dec 18: Los Angeles - Networking, 'Annual Scholarship and Awards Luncheon'

We encourage all BDPA leaders to take advantage of the centralized BDPA Groupsite Calendar to post your upcoming events! Please let us know of other BDPA events that we may have missed. Most importantly, let us know if you plan to attend any BDPA events this week.

5 Tips to Help the African American Job Seeker in the Information Technology Industry

I recently gave a cautiously optimistic view of the upcoming job market to a reporter. I think that these are times for talented, creative and motivated people of African descent in the IT industry to be fully prepared for upward mobility opportunity and new career opportunity. We need to take full advantage of all employment resources.

I understand that unemployment is high ... especially in the Black community. However, I also sense that the IT industry is uniquely poised to have great opportunities in the coming weeks for those BDPA members and supporters with good IT skill-sets.

There are many people looking for jobs in the IT industry. College students getting ready to graduate in the next year and those who graduated in the past year are highly motivated to find a job NOW so they can pay back all the bills they accumulated in college. Also, there are experienced IT professionals obtaining certifications and picking up continuing professional education credits so that they can re-enter or advance in the IT industry -- they need access to hot jobs NOW.

BDPA provides simple advice to IT job seekers of African descent -- look for online communities where IT Job Seekers or Corporate Recruiters go. Connect with career counselors at colleges who have a vested interested in getting their students placed. Make sure that you network with student unions, fraternities, sororities and alumni groups too.

Here are three (3) easy steps for BDPA members to take in their quest for a job in the IT industry:

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1. Attend the 2010 BDPA Technology Career Fair - You will meet face-to-face with recruiters and hiring managers. There is no cost to attend this 2-day career fair. You need to be there! It is important that you lose national or regional events to increase your visibility to others.
2. It's Best to Get Your Next Job While You Are Employed - It's important to start networking when you are still happily in your current position!
3. Join the online communities where recruiters are looking for you - You can find them on Facebook, Groupsite, LinkedIn Network or Twitter. Are you networking in these places?
4. Load your resume into the BDPA Talent Management System -- Last time I looked there were 75 job openings advertised in the BDPA Talent Management System. These job openings are all across the nation - Arizona, Connecticut, DC, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. These jobs are in various IT categories - accounting, administrative support, advertising, aerospace, airlines, architectural services, banking, biotechnology, computer hardware, computer services, computer software, construction, consulting, consumer products, customer service, education, electronics, engineering, environmental services, executive management, finance, government, healthcare, hospitality, human resources, insurance, law enforcement, legal, manufacturing, military, nonprofit, operations management, product management, project management, publishing, purchasing, real estate, research & development, restaurant, retail, sales, sports, science, supply chain, telecommunications, textiles, transportation, quality assuance and waste management. What are you waiting for?
5. Update Your Resume - A recruiter for a large corporation suggested that job seekers list membership in associations on their resume, including BDPA - because recruiters want to hire people from well-known, credible associations, and will search for an association name + technical skill (i.e. "BDPA" and "business analyst").

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I may have been optimistic when talking with that reporter ... but, we make our own luck and good fortune when we take proactive steps in our preparation. I hope you find these 3 easy steps useful. In fact, I hope you will let me know your thoughts on the employment prospects for people of African descent who want to grow a career in the IT industry.

What say u?

Experiencing a Career Transition?

In a career flux, need a change, looking for a new opportunity? Post your resume to the BDPA Talent Management System.

The BDPA Talent Management System provides members with a way to post resumes and Corporate Sponsors with a way to post jobs.

Corporate Sponsors, your investment in BDPA creates positive exposure to technically diverse membership of African American information technology professionals and students. Our system is designed to offer corporations an opportunity to partner with BDPA to meet corporate goals and objectives for recruiting. BDPA programs are open to all corporations with a sincere interest in the vision, mission, objectives and goals of BDPA.

Click here to submit your resume now.

Recruiters, if you would like to take advantage of the BDPA Talent Management System, please contact us by email or phone (800.727-2372) for more information.

BDPA Career Center

The BDPA Career Center serves the career needs of African American information technology (IT) professionals. The career center has a robust resume databank that provides exposure for you and your skill set to some of the best companies in the country. It has an excellent search facility in the form of a Job Bank that allows you to search for the perfect position for you and your skill set anywhere in the country.

The BDPA career center also supports the IT College Student with a Student Internship Program with resources to assist you in securing that desired college internship over the summer or any time of the year.

BDPA advances the careers of African Americans in the IT industry from the classroom to the boardroom. The BDPA Career Center should be your first stop in fulfilling all of your career goals. Have you used this member service yet?

100 Niche Job Boards for Web Workers

Soulclap to Bootstrapper for helping those IT workers with web design or networking capabilities who are unemployed or under-employed. To make your job search a little less complicated, Bootstrapper compiled a list of the top 100 niche job boards that will direct you to the best Web jobs out there. Online forums, staffing services, and government boards are just some of the resources that follow. These websites are devoted to helping programmers, networkers, designers, system administrators, and other Web workers land the perfect job.

Click here to see 100 Web-worker job boards!

Black Employment Rate in IT Industry Goes Up

Soulclap to BDPA Detroit for reaching the 100-post milestone and for sharing information on employment statistics of African Americans in the IT industry. Employment among African American IT professionals rose by 10.3 percent in 2007, reaching levels not seen since the Internet boom. Still, the percentage of blacks among all employed IT workers is lower than it was at the beginning of the decade.

African Americans held 267,000 IT managerial and staff jobs in the United States last year, representing 7.1 percent of employed business-technology pros, according to a CIO Insight analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

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Any thoughts on this information? I see that more and more companies are posting career opportunities in the BDPA Talent Management System and the BDPA-Jobs YahooGroup. Is it noticeable on your end as well?