The FDIC

I was watching a segment on 60 Minutes this evening about the FDIC and realized that they were a busy group. So I checked their web site and sure enough they are hiring, here in the Portland area!

The FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Basically, banks pay them a premium and if anything happens to a bank, customer deposits are insured (up to a certain level, based on specific rules, etc). It's an interesting company as they are not funded by the government but they can be considered a government agency. In fact, their board of directors are appointed by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the US Senate.

The classifications of their open jobs are a little different than most companies. Some jobs are available to any applicants while others are exclusively for current federal employees and/or qualifying veterans. In Oregon, they operate an office in the Portland area, Lake Oswego (near I-5) to be exact. They are hiring for 10 different job titles right now, most of which they have multiple positions in the Lake Oswego office. Jobs include: Compliance Analyst, Risk Management Examiner, Compliance Examiner and Loan Review Specialist.

I'm guessing that prior banking or finance experience is a huge plus but may not be required. Key words on their site seem to be compliance, risk, analyst. So if you can do those things, it might be worth a shot at applying. Below are some direct links:

FDIC homepage
FDIC Career page
About the FDIC

PDX Tech on LinkedIn now with Job board!

Not much more than 6 months ago, Greg Hughes and I set up a networking group on LinkedIn for Portland technology professionals. In the short time since we set the group up it has grown into the largest group representing Portland on LinkedIn with over 3,200 members and growing every day!

Just a couple months ago LinkedIn rolled out a message board feature for groups and our members quickly began using it to post job openings. I just noticed over this weekend that LinkedIn has now enabled a dedicated job board within each group. Posting a job in the group looks to be totally free. LinkedIn does give you the option to put up an official job listing visible to their entire site of millions but this is optional.


So if you and/or your company is hiring, make sure to post your job in the LinkedIn PDX Technology Professional's group. I am guessing that you will find a job posting in this group to be one of the most effective ways to reach an elite group of over three thousand local technology professionals.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!

AboutUs.org

A cool Portland based startup just landed $5m in venture capital. Rumor is that they'll be using some of it to hire more employee's.

AboutUs.org is a profitable web startup that currently employs 32 between Portland and India. Ray King, founder and CEO of AboutUs, told Rick Turoczy of RWW and SiliconFlorist that they may bring the employee total up to 50 during 2009.

So give them some time to celebrate their well earned cash infusion, then start looking out for some job postings. Good luck, you'll have a lot of competition.

AboutUs Homepage
AboutUs jobs page

You don't need me to remind you

It goes without saying that there really isn't much going on with hiring at smaller, lesser known firms in Portland. This economy is a mess and I'm guessing there are more unemployed Portland area folks now than ever before.

If I come across bright spots, I'll post. Otherwise, check out ReadWriteWeb's new featured site called JobWire. They are writing about tech companies willing to make investments in people during the downturn. Also, Mike Rogoway of the Oregonian is doing what I think is a weekly column on his blog, called Looking Forward where he writes about the good stuff going on around the Silicon Forest.

Good luck and happy holiday's.

Job Alert: Decipher, Inc

The Portland Business Journal reported today that California based Decipher, a software centric market research company, would be opening it's 4th office in Portland.

Headquartered in Fresno and with offices in Los Angeles and New York, Decipher has put Portland in great company! I am sure we'll return the favor with all the exciting things that are going on in the Portland tech scene.

No specific jobs are posted on their web site but they do offer contact information for job inquiries. I don't doubt however that they will be doing some significant hiring for the new Portland office. The Portland Business Journal reported that the PDX office will be headed up by Decipher's co-founder and co-CEO. This is no standard field office, my friends.

Check them out using the below links and get your resume into them. Lets show 'em what Portland is made of!

Decipher home
Decipher jobs
Decipher blog

Tripwire

Did you hear that Google just celebrated it's 10th anniversary? Crazy that a company that defines our culture and dominates our lives is only 10 years old! Now-a-days though, 10 years is nearly a lifetime.

What you may not know is that one of Portland's hottest tech companies you've never heard of is 11 years old. That's right, Tripwire which was founded in 1997, is going strong here in the Silicon Forest. Is it their star management team that keeps them going strong? Maybe the impressive BoD or the who's who of venture capital?

My Guess: all that and then some!

According to their web site, "Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk, attain compliance and increase operational efficiency throughout their virtual and physical environments. Using Tripwire's industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing solutions, organizations successfully achieve and maintain IT configuration control."

So are you ready to join and help them continue that success? Maybe celebrate a 20th anniversary? Lucky for you, they are hiring. As of this writing their web site boast 11 open positions in nearly all departments including Marketing, Finance and R&D. Specifically, I have learned through the PDX Tech group on LinkedIn that they are looking for Product Marketing professionals. Bonus points if you have Security, IT Operations, Compliance or a Virtualization background.

Visit their web site and the Google Finance page below for more info. When you apply, tell'em Jeff the Great sent you :)

Tripwire homepage
Tripwire jobs page
Tripwire on Google Finance

Hot Portland Jobs

I've been pretty busy with my job and other things in life lately so I haven't had a chance to profile a great Portland company. So no creative post here, but a list of some jobs you might want to check out:

Senior Financial Analyst @ ESCO

Financial Analyst @ ESI

Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation

Asst Controller @ Jive Software

There are lots of great jobs and great companies out there, don't give up!