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Michigan planning 1st virtual career fair for IT, tech talent

January 24, 2012 Events

Michigan, one of the first states in the nation to make attracting and developing talent for existing job needs a major priority, will host the first state-sponsored virtual career fair Feb. 15 to connect talented IT and high tech professionals with employers.

MiVirtualCareerFair: IT and High Tech will provide a platform for Michigan businesses to interact [...]

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Tagged as: Events, high tech jobs, Job Fair, Jobs, talent, tech jobs

Xconomist: What should you study now to prepare for 10 years from now?

January 18, 2012 Great Companies

Xconomy, the online news and events organization, released a report asking 22 of the nation’s top innovators, entrepreneurs and investors: what should students be studying now to prepare for 10 years from now? 
The report poses the question in order to gain a unique view into the future at a time of breakneck technological change and increasing economic [...]

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Tagged as: career opportunities, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, high tech jobs, Jobs, talent, tech jobs

Michigan No. 1 for tech job growth

October 7, 2011 Information Technology

  Michigan leads the nation in tech job growth, according to the latest 2010 TechAmerica report, putting the state in the national spotlight along with the winning Detroit Tigers.
Michigan, which lost more jobs than any other state during the past decade, has been a national comeback leader in recent weeks. Just last month, Newsweek / [...]

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Tagged as: economic diversification, high tech jobs, tech jobs

MEDC creates $18.8 million program to bring technology to market

July 29, 2011 Entrepreneurship & Innovation

The MEDC is dedicated to helping transform technology developed at Michigan’s universities into marketable enterprises. Just recently the Michigan Strategic Fund approved the University Technology Acceleration and Commercialization (UTAC) program, an $18.8 million initiative through the 21st Century Jobs Fund. Developed using input from 19 universities, university partnerships, and nonprofits, the program will help form partnerships [...]

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Tagged as: Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, high tech jobs, technology transfer

Looking for a summer job? Look no further than Grand Rapids, MI

June 15, 2011 Talent Enhancement

Job openings are on the increase in Michigan. And according to a recent forbes.com blog titled “The Best and Worst Cities for Jobs this Summer,” a survey by the employment services firm ManpowerGroup reveals that the metropolitan area with the most optimistic hiring forecast of all this summer is Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI.
ManpowerGroup surveyed more than [...]

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Tagged as: high tech jobs, Jobs

New graduates: Spring Engineering & Technology Job Fair will host more than 35 major Michigan companies

March 4, 2011 Events

Graduating this spring and looking to find a job right here in Michigan? Looking for a new career opportunity and want to talk to the right companies? Then check out Engineering Society of Detroit’s Spring Engineering & Technology Job Fair taking place Monday, March 7, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Suburban Collection [...]

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Tagged as: engineering jobs, high tech jobs, high-tech medical industry, Talent Enhancement, tech jobs

ForeSee Hiring

February 21, 2011 Great Companies

The company has added 25 percent to its headcount in 2010, and plans to hire another eighty people in 2011 – twenty-one of these arrived in January.
ForeSee use the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) methodology developed at the University of Michigan, and originally focused on website visitors, comparing results for eighty aspects of customer experience [...]

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Tagged as: Economic Growth, high tech jobs

Big Mo for Motown

September 14, 2007 Industry Sectors

Everyone knows what “Mo” stands for in Motown, but as I was driving around Detroit recently a new meaning came to me – momentum. There are many great things happening in Detroit on the economic development front that continue to illustrate a truly remarkable comeback story. With assistance from the MEDC’s brownfield redevelopment program, historic [...]

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Tagged as: brownfield redevelopment, economic development partnerships, economic diversification, Economic Growth, high tech jobs, manufacturing diversification, Pure Michigan, Tourism Industry