Congratulations to Brian Klinger (Team Comcast), Bryan Huddleston (Team Danica Patrick), Rich Brown (Team XO), and Ron Styers (Team Ron Petty Nascar) on a four-way tie for this week’s Nashville 500 winner! We appreciate all their hard work in helping us reach our goal of 500 members by June 30, 2011!
Archive for May, 2011
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MAY
Need a Tech Purge?
For anyone who’s recently moved, is preparing to move, or just needs to clean out their closet…
There’s free ‘e’ (electronic) waste recycling tomorrow (Saturday, May 28th) at LP field between 9 and 12! See the blurb below for what’s accepted, but the attached flyer has all the details.
Creative Recycling will be onsite to collect all types of electronics, including microwaves; cell phones; old televisions, VCR or DVD players; computers, monitors, disks and accessories; music and video cassettes and disks; power cables; printers and scanners.
Click here for more details.
Tech Titan sponsor, Healthways, and Tech Diamond partner, HP, have signed a ten-year contract. HP will help with the development of Healthways’ Embrace information system.
For more information, visit the Nashville Business Journal.
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MAY
Fun Day at Golf Outing
We would like to thank everyone who joined us yesterday for our Golf Outing at Hermitage Golf Course. Thankfully, the weather cooperated and we had a great day of golf, networking, and good times. It truly was a fun and enjoyable day. We look forward to seeing everyone again for the Fall Golf Outing! Thanks again to our Eagle Sponsor, Dell.
The winning teams were as follows:
1st Place (62)
Chris Beck
Josh Willoughby
Will Snyder
Jim Wardrop
2nd Place (62)
Cary Leaman
Jon Carney
Travis Pelfrey
Wes Hornbuckle
3rd Place (63)
Drew Fassett
Will Peeples
Jim Bray
Darren Buck
Nashville, TN—May 23, 2011 –The Nashville Technology Council Board of Directors announced today the resignation of J. Tod Fetherling as President/CEO of the Nashville Technology Council, a position he held for two and a half years. Fetherling will be leaving to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture. He will remain with the organization through June 30, 2011 and will continue to be involved with the Technology Council. The Board of Directors has initiated a search to secure Fetherling’s replacement and will work closely with the staff to ensure a smooth transition.
During his tenure, Fetherling built upon previous efforts to create many new programs and take the organization to higher levels of achievement and expand the council’s involvement and reach. “I want to personally thank Tod for his hard work over the past two and a half years. We are approaching $1million in annual revenues and serve a membership base of around 400 companies across a wide spectrum of industries and company sizes in Middle Tennessee with a goal of reaching 500 companies soon”, said Andy Flatt, Board Chair. Flatt added, “The NTC is on solid footing as a result of Tod’s leadership and strategic vision. We wish him every success in his new venture.”
Like many companies in the U.S., HCCA has had to reposition their business strategy and learn to diversify in an unstable economy in order to stay afloat. After launching four new companies last year, a $5 million venture capital collaboration hopes to bring more healthcare IT jobs to the Middle Tennessee area with the rising growth in EMRs. President of HCCA, David Bartholomew, said that HCCA’s new businesses are making money, while the business of bringing nurses here has been losing money.
To read more about this story, visit the Tennessean.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville is home to three of the fastest growing companies in the United States, according to Fortune Magazine. Emma led the way in Nashville ranking 10th on the list. Centresource Interactive Agency came in on the list at 46th, and Concept Technology is on the list at 55th. The list ranked U.S. companies by their annual growth between 2005 and 2009.
Congrats to NTC members Centresource Interactive Agency, Emma, Inc., and Concept Technology on this achievement!
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Comcast Business Class
Comcast Business Services provides a range of advanced data, Internet and voice services to businesses of all sizes, including Business Class Dedicated Ethernet, Business Class Internet and Teleworker services.
A story out by Katilin Madden from Career Builder highlights the hiring and and salary trends likely to meet new grads in 2011.
“After three years of disappointing hiring and salary trends for entry-level workers, this year’s crop of college grads are facing improving job prospects. Not only are hiring projections up over last year, but employers are also planning to increase starting salaries for this year’s new graduates. Here’s a deeper look at both encouraging trends for the class of 2011.”
Hiring outlook
According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2011 job outlook, employers are planning to hire almost 20 percent more new graduates this fall than they did in the fall of 2010, the first double-digit year-over-year jump in hiring since 2007. The anticipated increase will also nearly halve the ratio of job seekers to job postings this year as well, bringing the number from 41-to-1 in 2010 to just 21-to-1 in 2011.
Which industries will provide the most jobs? The NACE survey reports that the most opportunities will be in accounting (public and private), consulting, financial analysis, sales, investment banking and management trainee programs; while a recent CareerBuilder survey on college hiring found that companies plan to recruit the most new grads in the areas of IT, customer service, sales, finance, accounting and marketing.
Regardless of major or degree, though, there are certain qualities that all employers will be looking for when they hire new talent. Human resources managers who responded to the CareerBuilder survey said that the most important areas of proficiency for a new grad are written and verbal communication, technical ability, project management, research and math.
Employers ranked the following as most important experiences for new grads:
1. Internships
2. Part-time jobs
3. Volunteer work
4. Class work
5. Involvement in school organizations
Salary outlook
In addition to more job opportunities, graduates from the class of 2011 can expect salary offers that are higher than the ones their counterparts in 2010 and 2009 received. Twenty-six percent of employers surveyed by CareerBuilder said they planned to increase salary offers to new grads this year, up from 16 percent in 2010 and 11 percent in 2009.
Top Careers
Chemical Engineering $66,886
Computer Science $63,017
Mechanical Engineering $60,739
Computer Engineering $60,112
Information Sciences and Systems $56,868
Business Systems Networking/Telecommunications $56,808
The irony of this and every other data point we have been studying for three years is that the number of graduates in the highest paying jobs is going down. STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) degrees are tougher to get, but the long term payoff is terrific. Parents, please encourage your children to pursue STEM degrees.
