So, with unemployment continuing the rise, but the Dow at it’s highest point in 2009, what’s a potential client to think? Bottom-line, we all want to think/believe that “this time is different” about recent economic conditions – but that is a fallacy — yes, it’s tough in many geographical regions, yes, the job market for many cohorts is very tough — BUT – peaking unemployment is a GOOD thing, as it always signals an economy in recovery. Th... Read Full Story

Been a busy summer, trying to enjoy the nice weather when it’s been here. Gearing up for another week off, with a BIG family reunion. Should be a wonderful time to see those we’ve not seen in a long time. On the recruiting front, July ended up being the busiest recruiting month since the “Great Recession” started in Sept 08. I’ve said it before a few months back, and I’ll repeat it here – the recession in technology, in Boston, appears to now be over.... Read Full Story

I’m back from vacation! Read the full article here – http://bit.ly/ZNAgu – but, we’ve started to see the first few signs of the market turnaround here in Boston. I’ve had more jobs open in the past 3 weeks, that the prior 3 months combined. Read Full Story

According to this CNET article – http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10282905-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 , for the 2nd straight quarter, VCs are becoming increasingly optimistic about the nascent recovery in the economy. This survey is specific to West Coast/San Fran VCs, but the polling is from June — very recent and useful data. This reflects  not only what we are hearing, but what we are seeing in the past 3-4 weeks here in the Boston, MA software engineer... Read Full Story

Definitely a positive sign to read that Mass officially added job s in the month of May – led by the tech sector - http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2009/06/19/bay_state_gains_jobs_in_may/ Although we are still very much in “bear mode” overall, I am confident, barring any unexpected developments, that we are at an inflection point and that the market will steadily improve as the year moves into the 4th quarter – with a fairly robust recovery of the Boston/Massac... Read Full Story

PLEASE – local candidates only, no contractors, consulting firms or visa transfers. Due to the extremely high bar, and specific requirements of our client, only those candidates best fitting the position description will be contacted. ==== Concord, MA area – parallel systems, super computing, distributed systems, massively parallel computing backgrounds are all “on target” for this client. Ph.Ds in Computer Science – junior to Principal level salaries to 140k + b... Read Full Story

Have a hot new job for someone with QA/SQA experience in the medical device space (or similar regulated field) – 495N location in MA. See http://bit.ly/QAMedicaldevice for more details Looks like a great weekend to get out and enjoy the sun! Enjoy, Scott Read Full Story

Recruiting for a hot startup where we’ve placed most of the team, and have an exclusive. SWEET. Looking for monster PHP/Drupal skills, lots of MIT/CMU/Stanford folks here, sharp sharp! Several open source committers – so hacking on the side is a good thing. Read more here http://bit.ly/PHPDrupalWebdeveloper and send me an email if you’re interested – scott@biviumgroup.com Read Full Story

Been very busy with wedding planning – fun stuff!! A couple new jobs today to talk about – the first is a C++ Linux role in Cambridge, MA – focus on video apps – more of a mid-level ~ 105k salary -http://bit.ly/LinuxSoftwareEng – 2nd role is much more algorithmic/search in nature Java/C++/C#/Ruby – client doesn’t care what language you’re a master of,  just that you’ve got the chops to work for GOOG or MSFT, but you choose not to. 20 perso... Read Full Story

Hot new job to start Monday off on the right foot  - Middle tier (data access layer, ORM nHibernate etc) -  C# Software Engineer - salary + stock options - 110kish -  http://bit.ly/MiddleTierSoftwareEngineerBiviu Read Full Story