The Talent Brokerage

09/10/2014

Time to come up with another impossible to remember series of letters and numbers.

Almost 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords leaked to a Russian bitcoin forum today, causing a whole bunch of email users around the world to say "I hav

03/24/2014

For the good of the economy, quit your job! Wait, what?

Jonathan House of The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story in Friday's paper about how a shortage of skilled workers is driving up wages in a handful of industries (oil drilling, trucking, ...

03/18/2014

Tesla, Uber, AirBnB and more are all challenging local and state governments with technologies and business models that challenge "the way things have always been done" and threaten entrenched industries. Seattle's City Council just provided the model for how not to respond. GeekWire has plenty on the whole story, but this piece laid bare the ridiculous short-sightedness of protectionism. http://bit.ly/1dm766h

07/19/2013

Total geek-out worthy... Jeff Bezos team confirms engine they pulled from the sea floor is from Neil Armstrong's moon landing mission, Apollo 11.

The serial number on engine #5 from the Apollo 11 mission. This is a pretty big piece of American history. Jerrad Alexander, SpaceWorks Technician,

06/19/2013

Graduate Education for the non-conformist. I linked to this over on LinkedIn last week, but decided it needed to be spread to all you Facebooker's too! http://lnkd.in/u6FEDT

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04/11/2012

Where does your career fall? Hint: If your profession is software engineering, you chose wisely. 200 careers, statistically ranked from best to worst. http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2012-ranking-200-jobs-best-worst

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02/07/2012

It can be a little daunting to figure out how to maximize the potential of each social media outlet, no matter the application. This is a simple an explanation as I've seen... http://instagr.am/p/nm695/

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01/06/2012

Unlimited Vacation = Increased Total Productivity? This was a hot topic in our industry when Netflix made their unlimited vacation policy a big selling point. Now, 4 years later, Inc.com discusses the popular policy found in a growing number of companies bucking the 9-5, M-F workplace. http://www.inc.com/joe-reynolds/give-your-employees-unlimited-vacation-time.html

Will it improve company culture? Sure. But can giving workers all the time off they want also increase their productivity?

12/05/2011

Best career advice I've heard in a long time. "If you're the smartest person at your job/company, QUIT." The importance of immersing yourself in an environment that constantly pushes you to be better can't be stressed enough.

10/06/2011

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do... If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on." - Steve Jobs

09/19/2011

From Seattle, to San Francisco to Kansas City; the technology sector has shown great resilience to the economic plight the nation has suffered since the Lehman Bros collapse of '08. Wall St. Cheat Sheet shows 11 of 24 S&P 500 companies that returned 100%+ since the Lehman Collapse are directly tech-related.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/24-sp-500-stocks-up-over-100-since-lehman-failed.html/

08/18/2011

A happy addendum to our August 9th note, we're now working with an Angel funded start-ups as well. Help High School students connect with the perfect higher education experience. Get your hands on a brand new product and help drive direction and architecture as well as writing tons of mission critical code. As always, referrals will be handsomely rewarded with cash!