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tech-jobs website Dice.com lists more than 62,000 positions nationwide, a nearly 22 percent jump from the 51,000 listed a year earlier. In February, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced an initiative to support investment in U.S.-based, growth-oriented industries and pledged to increase jobs available this year to recent college graduates. Intel Capital — Intel Corporation’s global investment organization — and 24

In April, The Wall Street Journal reported that surging earnings in the technology sector were driving waves of hiring.
venture capital firms pledged to invest $3.5 billion in U.S.-based technology companies over the next two years. These investments include a $200-million Intel Capital Invest in America Technology Fund and will target key innovation and growth segments such as clean technology, information technology and biotechnology. The Invest in America Alliance also includes commitments from 17 technology and corporate leaders to increase hiring of college graduates. Along with Intel they include Accenture, Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Broadcom Corporation, CDW, Cisco, Dell, eBay, EMC Corporation, GE, Google, HewlettPackard Company, Liberty Mutual Group, Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! our core business,” MacKenzie says. Whereas some of the new hires in R&D have bachelor’s degrees, Intel is seeking computer scientists and engineers with master’s degrees and Ph.D.s in either computer technology or electrical engineering, he reports. The company expects to hire technically educated workers in the second half of the year, to expand manufacturing operations in Arizona and New Mexico, MacKenzie says. GE is hiring for its Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center in Michigan and received 48,000 resumes to fill 500 jobs, says Vic Bhagat, site leader for the center and chief information officer for GE Corporate Information Services. The company is seeking engineers with between eight and 25 years of experience, and about 70 percent of the applicants already have jobs, he says. These figures suggest that professionals are becoming more confident about moving to new employers. About 50 to 55 percent of the applicants are coming from the auto industry, and most of the rest are from the health care and insurance industries, Bhagat notes. At Boeing, “We’re finding that for every position we put out there, we’re getting a very large number of people applying,” says Darlene Fox, manager of Noise, Weights & Scientific Computing
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But employers say they’re not having difficulty finding good candidates at every level. “Increasingly, we’re looking at more highly qualified individuals,” says Iain MacKenzie, Greater America Recruitment manager for Intel. “We’re hiring across the board — entry level, recent college grad, mid-level and even executive level. We’re seeing an uptick across the board.” One primary focus for growth in the first half of this year was R&D. “The biggest uptick has been in

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