I saw your web page about Job Hunting for Analog/Mixed Signal circuit design. I am looking for analog IC designers for a number of companies in Austin, TX. Semiconductor companies in Austin with major analog IC design projects include: Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Sigmatel, Analog Devices, Legerity, Cirrus Logic, etc. We place people all over the country, but are primary target is Austin. Austin has over 200 high tech companies. Most of the major semiconductor companies have design centers in Austin.

My service is to place a candidate's resume on the hiring manager's desk. We don't charge the applicants for this service. Companies get so many resumes that they cannot wade through them all. They use companies like ours to screen the resumes, and then phone screen the applicants. For example, we placed an ad on DICE for Analog IC Designers and of 37 applicants only one person wanted a job as an analog designer.

We do contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placements. Most of the analog openings we get are for permanent placements. We expect to have a large number of analog openings in the mid-February time frame. Another company is opening an analog design center in Austin.

Here is my advice to your readers ... All recruiters use the same search techniques. It is important for a resume to include a list of skills and tools. Most recruiters are not technical enough to understand the hiring manager's needs, so they simply plug in the buzzwords and see what pops-out. Most recruiters have access to monster and hotjobs. You really don't need to post your resume any where else, but you need to post multiple versions of your resume, each targeted at the position you want. Delete or dramatically reduce all the unrelated information from your resume. Because there are so many resumes to look at, people are scanning for a reason NOT to conduct an interview with the candidate. You may want to post your resume in career specific databases as well. All of the job boards have a database, which serves up the resumes. You can only see these if you pay the fees. Large companies pay these fees, but small companies cannot afford them. Therefore, everyone should have their resume posted on-line as an html page. If we can't find the required skills in a resume database, then we Google search the web. Yahoo is also a good search tool.

Your page is great.

If you could add a link to my site, I would greatly appreciate it.

Best Wishes.

Sincerely,
Jeff Cartwright
1.512.789.8364

VP Business Development
Veriseo
Contract Engineering
www.veriseo.com

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