Career Center | Is working for a startup right for you?

By Lora Shinn / Special to NWjobs Molly Epstein loves her job. Since last May, she has been creating computer-aided 3-D models of jewelry for Ritani.com, a high-end diamond and jewelry e-commerce company. Working for a tech startup -- among

Career Center | Women’s coding group aims to bridge tech gender gap

By Monica Chen / Raleigh News and Observer With laptops open and coffee in hand, a dozen women joined a Code & Coffee session in Raleigh, N.C., recently, where they coded Web pages, shared tips on design and chatted about

Career Center | Gains from cranes: Modest job growth for Seattle area in 2013

By Randy Woods / Special to NWjobs In spite of the lingering concerns over the slow economic recovery and the 286,000 people still out of work statewide, many forecasters agree that Washington, and especially the Puget Sound region, is poised

Career Center Blog | Seattle earns high score in gamer job opportunities

Bungie. PopCap. Valve. Big Fish. Double Down. No, these are not nicknames for mob informants. They are all companies that could represent lucrative job opportunities for many video game developers, engineers, designers and animators looking for work in Seattle's booming

Career Center Blog | Tide still rising for Seattle tech jobs

If there ever was a time for Seattle-area job seekers to add high-tech skills to their resumes, it would be right now. In just the last week alone, several developments in the gaming, software engineering and IT fields have pointed

Career Center Blog | Southwest WA: Where the jobs are?

With the return of nice weather (eventually) and summer vacation, the networking calendar for July is one of the lightest of the year -- small enough to fit into a single Hire Ground post. But that doesn't mean there aren't

Career Center Blog | Seattle ranks high on managerial hiring index

A few days ago, we saw a dramatic example of change, with Republicans picking up a whopping 64 seats in the midterm elections to take back control of the House of Representatives. Here in this Washington -- in the Seattle

People's Picks 2010 | Favorite technology company

F5 Networks "We make the products that make the Internet run faster," says one employee of Seattle's F5. "How cool is that?" This is the company that launched BIG-IP, one of the IT industry's first load balancers, as a

Career Center | It takes more than a love of gaming for a career as a video-game designer

By Randy Woods Special to NWjobs Josh Stanger is an animation artist and modeler for Zombie Studios in Pioneer Square. (Linda Hughes) While growing up in Modesto, Calif., Josh Stanger couldn’t get enough of video games. “I’ve been playing

Career Center Blog | How to get a job at LUMEDX (and how not to)

There are job seekers who research company e-mail addresses and spam them with their resumes with the hopes of getting a job. These techniques won't help you land an interview with LUMEDX, a medical software company in Bellevue, says Josh

Career Center | Online presence helps companies such as Amazon, Expedia and Microsoft notice you

By Randy Woods Special to NWjobs To stand out from the crowd, job seekers should demonstrate initiative online, tech companies say. (Thinkstock) Last fall, Liz Stinson, a recent graduate of Stanford’s Ph.D. program in computer science, wanted to get

Career Center | Facebook plans to open Seattle engineering office

By Seattle Times technology staff The Seattle area's pool of engineering talent has won over another major Silicon Valley company. Facebook, the hugely popular social-media service, is planning to open an engineering office here. Announcement of the Palo Alto,