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Making The List: Austin Business Journal’s Top Tech Recruitment Firms in 2020

  The surveys have been counted and the results are in! Technology Navigators has been recognized by Austin Business Journal as one of the Top Tech Recruitment Firms in 2020. For the second year in a row, our locally-owned agency has earned a coveted spot among the top five companies in Austin’s highly competitive technology […]

ABJ x Technology Navigators: Current State of Hiring in Austin, TX

  In early April, Austin Business Journal touched base with Technology Navigators‘ Managing Partner, Allen Goldsmith, to get a pulse on the job market in Austin, Texas amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. After being in the local recruiting industry for over two decades, our technology-based staffing agency has successfully weathered the storms of years past. “‘We’ve […]

How To Nail Your Remote Interview: 5 Tips for Success

  As the coronavirus pandemic (also known as COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the world, more companies are turning to technology to support internal operations for the foreseeable future. Few industries have remained untouched by the effects of this devastating virus, so it’s no surprise companies are having to re-evaluate their approach to the current staffing […]

Austin Outranks Silicon Valley as America’s #1 City for Startups

Sometimes, Austin folks feel like they’re living in the shadow of America’s major metro areas. But a new ranking of the best U.S. cities for startups flips the script by putting all of the nation’s largest cities in our shadow. In the ranking, produced by commercial real estate platform CommercialCafé, Austin appears at No. 1 among […]

Austin’s Top Tech User Group Meetups: July 2019

Monday, July 8th starting at 6 pm Austin DevOps Meetup: PayTalk Time & Avoiding Friendly Fire in AWS AWS’s access model provides powerful opportunities for controlling who has what level of access to which resources. But with this awesome power comes awesome complexity. The inevitable shortcuts mean that a one-line bug could wipe out all […]

Moving to Austin? Four Helpful Tips To Get Your Resume Noticed

  As Austin, Texas continues to draw new residents in masses, the job market continues to get tighter. With new positions getting filled by local candidates everyday, it may seem tough to make your experience stand out against the competition. If you are one of the many considering relocating to the rolling hills of scenic […]

Amazon Announces New Tech Hub With 800 Jobs

  It may not be an HQ2. But Amazon is still going big in Austin. After years of ramping up operations on the city’s north side at the Domain, the ecommerce super power has announced plans to open a new tech hub in Austin with 800 tech jobs to accompany it. Amazon says it has […]

As Austin’s Tech Scene Explodes – Are We Still As Weird As Ever?

Walking distance from the pink dome of the Texas Capitol building, there were whiskey samples, tamales and Nerf guns. The Virtual Reality crowd talked Augmented Reality. The millennials in YETI shirts and the gray-haired post-hippies in psychedelic vests racked up points in a 3-D shootout on Space Pirate Trainer. And then there was Tim Porter, […]

October 2018 Brought Austin, Texas Even More Hiring Growth!

Over 150 million workers in the U.S. have LinkedIn profiles; over 20,000 companies in the U.S. use LinkedIn to recruit; over 3 million jobs are posted on LinkedIn in the U.S. every month; and members can add over 50,000 skills to their profiles to showcase their professional brands. That gives us unique and valuable insight […]

National Day of Civic Hacking in Austin

The second annual National Day of Civic Hacking is almost here! On May 31 – June 1, cities around the world will hold hackathons to create and build technology-based solutions to problems in their local communities. Whether you’re a software developer, entrepreneur, or just a citizen, get involved and support one of the two events […]