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Looking for the BEST Tech Job for You?

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Questions Raised by Google's Firing of Employee Who Criticized Diversity Policy

A software engineer working for Google wrote a lengthy memo contending that the lack of more women working for the company is due to basic gender differences between men and women that make women less capable of succeeding at tech jobs. Therefore, he argued, the company was wrong to have a diversity policy that encouraged the hiring of more women. The memo quickly spread throughout the company and to the media. Google immediately fired the memo writer—which raises the question of what speech is protected in a union‐free environment.

Looking for the BEST Tech Job for You?

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Looking for the BEST Tech Job for You?

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Gendered Perceptions of Cultural and Skill Alignment in Technology Companies

Previous research documents how stereotypes discourage young women from choosing and attaining technology jobs. We build off this research and ask whether (and how) stereotypes continue to affect men and women once they enter the technology workforce. Using a novel survey of technical employees from seven Silicon Valley firms and new measures of what we call “cultural” and “skill” alignment, we show that men are more likely than women to believe they possess the stereotypical traits and skills of a successful tech employee. We find that cultural alignment is especially important: because women are less likely than men to believe they match the cultural image of successful tech workers, they are less likely to identify with the tech profession, less likely to report positive supervisor treatment, and more likely to consider switching career fields. This paper is the first to use unique and independent measures of cultural and skill alignment comparing employees’ perceptions of themselves to their perceptions of an ideal successful worker. By allowing cultural and skill alignment to operate separately, we are able to determine which work outcomes are most strongly related to each form of alignment. Our results imply that if we can broaden the cultural image of a successful tech worker, women may be more likely to feel like they belong in technology environments, ultimately increasing their retention in tech jobs.

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Where the tech jobs are: 2016

The Class of 2016 will enter the most welcoming U.S. job market in nearly a decade: Sixty-seven percent of employers say they plan to hire recent college graduates this year, the highest number since 2007, according to job site CareerBuilder's annual forecast. Second only to business majors, freshly minted engineers are set to enjoy most of that hiring goodwill as the U.S. economy continues its slow-butsteady postrecession growth. According to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), at the end of last year, two-thirds of company respondents were planning to hire engineers.

An Empirical Analysis on the Geography of Korea's High-Tech Jobs and Start-Ups

Active creation of high tech jobs and start-ups in innovation clusters like Silicon Valley has drawn a lot of attentions from policy makers and analysts around the world. We empirically investigate the geography of Korea’s high tech jobs and start-ups using the combined data set of Korea’s Local Area Labor Force Survey and Survey of Research and Development in Korea. Although we identified significantly positive agglomeration effects through the evidence on higher wages and bigger probability of start-ups in locations with more highly educated people, we could not find the existence of innovation clusters with active technology transfers from universities and public R&D expenditures in Korea.

The target decomposition model for renewable energy based on technological progress and environmental value

One of the key aspects of developing a regional renewable energy plan involves incorporating national renewable energy targets into provincial targets whilst including interim phase targets and technology targets. This paper proposes a renewable energy model based on national targets ‘decomposed’ into regional targets that incorporate technological processes and environmental conditions at the individual project level. At the project level, resource potential is allocated into individual projects based on the current technological level. The available resources and renewable energy generation of each project changes as the technology evolves and the environmental conditions change over time. The model can be adjusted according to actual needs of each region; thus policymakers can establish the respective targets for power, heating, oil and gas as well as renewable energy based on the regional context. Overall, the total national target can be decomposed into regional targets and technological targets. This paper proposes long-term regional development targets for renewable energy based on the total supply curve for renewable energy in different periods. Fujian province will be applied as an example to validate the target decomposition model of renewable energy targets of various regions and technologies in China. The model projected that the economic capacity of renewable energy generation in Fujian province for dam hydropower, offshore wind power, onshore wind power, photovoltaic power and waste incineration power is expected to reach 4748MW, 4036MW, 3581MW, 2663MW and 766MW, respectively by 2025. The research result could have wider implications such as achieving GHG emissions reductions targets, addressing environmental concerns, providing high tech jobs within the region and contributing to energy security at the local and national level.

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Offshore Outsourcing of High Tech Jobs: The View from India

In the recent past there has been considerable media attention on the exodus of jobs in various high-tech industries from the developed world (USA and Europe) to emerging countries, notably India. The phenomenon has strong economic justification for the companies that are outsourcing these jobs to destinations. In the U.S. there is a growing resentment and backlash to offshore outsourcing. Many people are complaining that far too many high-paying jobs are being exported abroad.Given that this new wave of job migration out of U.S. (and to some extent Europe as well) causes cataclysmic changes in the lives of those getting displaced out of their jobs, the issue is indeed loaded from an emotive perspective. If this movement grows and politicians in the affected countries respond with tariffs, quotas and outright bans on outsourcing (and politicians do have a tendency to react to such outcries), then IT companies such as Infosys, WIPRO, and Tata Consultancy Services from India and those from other emerging countries will be hard hit, since much of their sales comes from international markets. The purpose of this paper is to find out how the leaders of major Indian companies feel about the growing threat of protectionism in IT out-sourcing, a domain that has been witnessing of a lot of high-tech job migration in the past several years. Phase-1 of the study (which is the scope of this working paper) is designed to understand the phenomenon from the perspective of top managers of Indian IT companies and key decision makers in the Indian federal and relevant state governments, as well as NASSCOM, the nodal Indian agency that is involved in promoting India as an IT outsourcing destination. The focus of this study in India, since it in the vortex of on-going debate of job losses. A more extended study (Phase 2) is contemplated subsequently, covering other emerging nations that compete with India for a share of the IT outsourcing pie. As a part of Phase-1, several top managers of large India - based IT companies, leaders of Indian Industrial forums as well as key government officials were interviewed. Anecdotes, quotes, and ideas were collected from them, which we present in this paper. This on-going research seeks to develop a framework for international trade that is based on the creation and sharing of jobs.

Is Education the Key to Global Economic Competitiveness?1

Contemporary test-based reforms are often grounded in the claim that test performance is the key to international economic competitiveness. However, this oft-repeated assertion lacks empirical support. According to the World Economic Forum, the United States' recent loss of economic competitiveness standing is due to macroeconomic instability rather than to a lack of workforce skills and knowledge. In contrast to the claims of President Obama and Secretary Duncan, the nation has no shortage of qualified job applicants. There are, on average, three qualified applicants for every high tech job. Furthermore, 80% of projected jobs require only technical or on-the-job training. The vast majority do not require the skills measured by contemporary accountability schemes. For example, only 5% require any math beyond basic operations. Educators must continue to focus on equality of educational opportunities for all children and, as contrasted with narrow economic rationales, embrace a broader vision of the purposes of education.

An Interview with Ben Brown, Co-founder of So New Media and Publisher of Words! Words! Words!

With this installment of “They Might Be Giants,” Michael Brown talks with Ben Brown (no relation) about publishing books (ten so far!) and magazines (issue 3 of Words! Words! Words! is about to be released), while at the same time working nine-to-five at a really boring tech job. It's a do-it-yourselfer's dream come true. Serials Review 2002; 28:344–348.