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Hiring in the high-tech sector surging locally; not the '90s all over again, but payrolls are on upswing.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 30-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
It's not quite the heyday of the dot-com boom era when engineers were offered BMWs as bonuses and employers shelled out thousands of stock options, but the high-tech job market in San Diego appears to be approaching levels it hasn't seen in five years.

Though hard data on high-tech employment is a bit sketchy, since many small firms fly under the radar of government data collectors, anecdotal evidence abounds that the information technology job market is heating up.

"I haven't seen a new resume cross my desk in about two months, and I'm getting about two job (openings) announcements a week. If my informal network is any indication, things are looking pretty healthy," said Tyler Orion, the president of the RTA@Connect, a local high-tech industry organization.

Science Applications International Corp., the research and engineering firm that is one of the region's largest employers, reported it had 233 openings in the county and 360 openings statewide. Last week, it...

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