Austin made smartmoney.com ‘s list of the top 5 places to live when searching for a job. With all of the ike evacuees in town that is good news because they will be looking for work. With the Texas coast torn up from the hurricane.
Here is what SmartMoney.com said about Austin, TX:
Austin-Round Rock, Texas
The capital of Texas may be best known for cultivating the live music scene, but it’s also proving to be fertile ground for tech companies. IBM, as well as electronic components firms Applied Materials, Flextronics and Samsung Austin Semiconductor have offices there, and collectively employ more than 13,000 residents, says DeVol. Many of these employees are picked up after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, says Greg Garrison, president of Startup Staffing Group, a finance, HR and recruiting company. Overall, this metropolitan area registered the fourth largest job growth — 2.89% — between March 2007 and March 2008 of all the cities Milken surveyed.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/105783/Five-Best-Cities-for-Job-Hunting
Great news. Way to go and lets hope Austin keeps attracting more employers.
rk
