The first-ever doo64.com High-tech Career Fair and Networking Night will be on Thursday, August 7th from 3-9pm in Austin, Texas.

This unique combo event starts by helping local tech professionals find the right next career move, and ends with an evening of networking with your industry peers in a friendly social setting. So whether you're actively looking for that next opportunity, or you're wanting to expand your local professional network while enjoying food, drinks, and door prizes, this event has something for you!

Visit here to RSVP:  http://door64.com/careerfair (must be logged in to door64 to register.)

Employers:  Learn about participating in this event.

A BIG thanks to LinkedIn and Rackspace for generously sponsoring this event!

It's time for the next door64 Austin LinkedIn Happy Hour!

Our sixth networking event will be co-hosted with the Green Technology Alliance (GTA).

If you're a Central Texas technology professional, you're invited to this free networking event. Come out to Six in downtown Austin and enjoy a night of networking. Our last one in March drew a huge crowd of software, hardware, semiconductor, and IT folks. Here's another chance to meet your industry peers in this new and much larger location.

This cool venue can hold 500 people, and we've got the whole place to ourselves! I'll be monitoring responses, and will cap at Six's capacity.

Visit here to RSVP: http://door64.com/happyhour (must be logged in to door64 to register.)

A big thanks to Freescale Semiconductor for generously sponsoring this networking event!

Here are the AMCC Networking Night photos from our June 4th, 2008 event. Thanks to Eugene Hsu for snapping all these great shots!
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I estimate we had around 150 chip folks come out that night, beginning to arrive around 5:30pm. The last of us finally left at 10pm! Thanks again to AMCC for sponsoring this evening for us chipheads!

The purpose of this informal survey is to understand the current state of our Central Texas job market by collecting some real data about employment within high-tech. This survey aim to collect data from local employers and firms who hire Central Texas tech professionals. This survey is not intended for job seekers. This is in preparation for a door64 job fair.

Please take a few minutes to fill this out. Of course, you only get one submission.

All responses will be kept private. I will keep the survey open for a week or so to make sure we pull in sufficient responses.

In preparation for the upcoming career fair & networking event (date and location TBD), I just finished running a two-week survey of door64 members to assess aspects of our local job market. We had 323 responses.

Instead of me trying to analyze all the data alone, and in the spirit of social media, I'm publishing the raw data for the community to analyze. I removed all private field data, and removed "bad" data (obvious duplicates when someone hit SUBMIT twice, no answer submissions, etc.)

Let's use this thread to discuss trends we find. Our conclusions will help me find the right employers to invite to the event.

Here's the raw data in Excel 2003 format. Please comment here (must be logged in)

If you're a high-tech employer in Central Texas who is interested in being a part of a tech job fair, please email me.

Recently I've starting using Twitter, and I see the usefulness of microblogging. I also decided to try an experiment with pushing door64 updates on Twitter for those who are interested. The tweets happen in real-time.

If you're already a Twitter member, you can follow door64_Texas. You will start seeing updates when new information is posted on door64. I'm prefixing tweets with hashtags to categorize updates, as follows:

#EV: Event calendar
#DF: Discussion forum
#BL: Blog
#JB: Job opportunity
#SK: Skill set

Comment below if you find this useful, and/or have any suggestions!