For anyone working in the tech industry, it pays to stay attentive to what's coming next. That's just as true for a workforce solutions provider that helps businesses and professionals in tech work together as it is for those professionals themselves. With an eye on the trends likely to overtake the tech world in the coming years, Talent 101 has just announced a new business relationship with Camber.
When it comes time for a small semiconductor company to hire new talent it can feel a bit like David gearing up to compete with Goliath. There's a limited pool of talent out there. How are the little guys supposed to compete with the giants of the electronics industry?
Musical chairs may have been fun to play as a kid, but it's no game in an office environment. To keep a business running smoothly and productively, you want every seat you fill to stay filled. When employees move to other departments or businesses, you lose.
How Temporary Contract Positions Can Help Your Long-Term Semiconductor Career
The recent recession changed the way people think about work. While many of the effects of the recession were clearly negative, one of the benefits to come out of it is a broadening of how people view their professional prospects. The past five years have seen an increase in graduate school attendees, the self-employed, and temporary contract workers.
That latter group has grown by about 9% in the last year, according to a survey performed by the American Staffing Association (ASA). While temporary contract positions offer some clear benefits to semiconductor businesses, it may be harder for engineering job candidates with dreams of steady, full-time work to see the appeal. Nonetheless, those temporary positions can pay off for the worker, as well as the company that hires him or her.
In the semiconductor industry, you're not just competing against other companies when it comes to making sales. Hiring a top-notch team of semiconductor engineers is a feat in and of itself.
The hiring process can be a pain in any industry, but in one as competitive as the semiconductor industry it takes on a new level of difficulty. The fact is, you're busy.
Semiconductor projects require a very specialized kind of knowledge. Talent recruitment for semiconductor positions can be very competitive, which makes it all too tempting to settle quickly on a new candidate for a position in your company. A hire that's not a good fit will eat up time, energy and resources though, so you should minimize the risk by bringing a little more caution into the hiring phase.
Contract-to-hire positions are pretty standard in the tech industry and can be beneficial to both the company and the candidate. Personality conflicts or a mismatch in what the candidate knows and what the company needs are bad for everyone. To build a stronger semiconductor team, giving people a try before the commitment of a full-time employee position can help for three simple reasons.
Hiring is often a long, difficult, and time-consuming process. Finding the right fit for a semiconductor technical position is hard enough, but add the time it takes to work out the details of the new position, file all the appropriate paperwork, and get the new employee set up to get started and it's clear what a big commitment a new hire is.
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Advanced Micro Devices is launching its code-named Kaveri processors, which represent one of the biggest technical advances that the company has made in some time. If you did not know already, AMD has invested large resources to make Austin a new home for its innovation, and these new chips are just one such example.
The Kaveri chips are meant for games and other high-performance applications. The new chips show that AMD is moving in a very different direction from Intel, which at the 2014 International CES put a lot of emphasis on “perceptual computing,” or using gestures and other new kinds of interfaces to control computers. Instead of interfaces, AMD is focusing on powerful graphics capabilities.
AMD says Kaveri has 2.4 billion transistors (the basic building blocks of computer electronics), and 47 percent of them are aimed at better, high-end graphics. Although the code name is Kaveri, the new chips will officially be called the A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Like most AMD processors, they combine both graphics and central processing unit functions on the same chip.
