“Microsoft to deliver Windows Thin PC to customers by June 30”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-deliver-windows-thin-pc-to-customers-by-june-30/9331?tag=nl.e550
Why is this announcement by Microsoft important? Because as the author Mary Jo Foley explains the product, “It is a version of Windows 7 that allows customers to repurpose existing PCs as thin clients. Win TPC doesn’t require the VDA (Virtual Desktop Access) license to access VDI desktops. The product is built on top of Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack 1, and supports RemoteFX and enterprise management via System Center Configuration Manager.”
Microsoft internal memo says to focus on developers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-plan-to-increase-its-focus-on-developers-the-full-internal-memo/9327?tag=nl.e550
“U.S. VC cleantech investment tops $1.14 billion in Q1 2011”
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/us-vc-cleantech-investment-tops-114-billion-in-q1-2011/15978?tag=nl.e550
On that note I had the following email forwarded to me.
Help Wanted: 24 Clean Energy Firms
Hiring 300 New Employees Right Now
by KEVIN DOYLE
It’s rough out there. We all know that job creation isn’t as vibrant as it would be if we had more consistent and sensible federal energy policies. But that doesn’t mean that New England clean energy companies aren’t hiring. From Advanced Electron Beams to Ze-gen, clean energy employersare looking for talented people. Whether it’s solar or wind, efficiency or batteries, biofuels or insulation, you don’t have to look far to find “help wanted” signs in the shop windows.
Want proof? It’s not hard to find. On the morning of April 4th, I quickly visited the websites of a small group of member companies of the New England Clean Energy Council (www.cleanenergycouncil.org) to get a hiring snapshot of the industry.
I skated over some of the really big national employers in the Council membership, like Philips and Belcan Corporation. Job seekers shouldn’t give them a pass, though! Both companies are in a big time hiring mode. Philips has 680 job openings all over the country, and Belcan is looking to hire more than 1100 people in the US.
In the end, I picked out a small group of representative clean energy employers., and started plowing through the “help wanted” postings. Those 24 companies alone had 300 current job openings advertised right now.
Keep in mind that these companies represent the tiniest fraction of the industry total. There are more than 1,500 clean energy related companies in Massachusetts alone, and many more in Connecticut, Rhode Island and the rest of New England.
Who’s looking for the most people? Well, it will come as no surprise to learn that companies with a national reach have the greatest number of offerings, and that those jobs are distributed throughout the country. Massachusetts based companies like Ameresco (50+ openings), A123 Systems (46 openings), Conservation Services Group (35), Boston-Power (26), and EnerNOC (24) topped the list of employers seeking new workers among those we looked at.
Far more typical of the industry were the many companies that are seeking just a few people, likeNext Step Living and American Superconductor (14 each), Borrego Solar (12), Nuvera (10), Digital Lumens (8), Alteris (7), Advanced Electron Beams and Beaumont Solar (6 each). Harvest Power,Konarka, GMZ, and Nexamp all had ads for five new people.
Finally, there are many that need just a handful of new employees. Liquid Piston, for example, was advertising four current job openings. Aircuity, Aspen Aerogels, Metabolix, Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Qteros and Ze-gen were all seeking three new workers.
Small potatoes, you think? Perhaps, but a regional industry with hundreds of companies hiring, the numbers add up to a lot of new jobs now in a labor market that’s shedding jobs in many other sectors.
Just what are these companies looking for, you ask? Glad to answer.
The industry is hiring lots of engineers, of course, from a wide variety of different engineering specialties, including electrical, energy, industrial process, software, and more. Follow-up conversations confirmed that top rank engineers for these positions are hard to find, even at a time when unemployment is high. We’ll have more about the industry’s acute need for talented engineers in future blog posts.
Also high on the “help wanted” list are IT professionals, project managers, finance and accounting staff, energy auditors, renewable energy system installment and maintenance people, and a variety of sales, marketing and administrative pros.
So, take heart, job seekers. There may not be a huge wave of clean energy jobs cresting, but there is a tide that is steadily rising. We’ll track and comment upon all things workforce related through this blog, and also bring you reports from the industry’s HR directors, recruiters and trainers.
Whether you’re an employer or employee; a job seeker or an interviewer; a professor or a student; we’d love to hear your stories. You can post your thoughts to the blog directly, or get in touch with me using the contact information below
How to find the employers:
If you’d like to check out job offerings at the companies mentioned above, you’ll find a full list of links at: http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org/our_members. Happy hunting. (I second that feeling. Happy job hunting.)
“Alcatel-Lucent Chops Away at Years of Failure”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227029794705.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology
“Crunching the Data of Love”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227032797839.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology
See math isn’t so boring after all. It really does lead to love.
Comcast to add more content in its On-Demand service.
http://www.trcbnews.com/comcast-makes-all-the-efforts-to-compete-netflix/112717/
“Infoblox upgrades DNS appliances to ease move to IPv6”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050311-infoblox-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_wan_2011-05-03
“How to be an effective security buyer”
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/050211-andreas.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03
“Home Wi-Fi Network Security: 4 Ways to Avoid Big Trouble”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-home-wi-fi-network-security-4.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03
“VMware causes second outage while recovering from first”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-vmware-foundry-outage.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cloud_security_2011-05-03
“Free DNS service adds IPv6 support”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-opendns-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_network_architecture_2011-05-03
Guess who’s coming back...........................Its “Clippy”!
http://www.dailytech.com/Microsofts+Clippy+Makes+A+Comeback+Sort+Of/article21514.htm
I kid you not.
"Apple updates iMac with Intel, AMD chips"
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-updates-imac-with-intel-amd-chips-2011-05-03?dist=countdown
Surfs up!.................... Eric
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-deliver-windows-thin-pc-to-customers-by-june-30/9331?tag=nl.e550
Why is this announcement by Microsoft important? Because as the author Mary Jo Foley explains the product, “It is a version of Windows 7 that allows customers to repurpose existing PCs as thin clients. Win TPC doesn’t require the VDA (Virtual Desktop Access) license to access VDI desktops. The product is built on top of Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack 1, and supports RemoteFX and enterprise management via System Center Configuration Manager.”
Microsoft internal memo says to focus on developers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-plan-to-increase-its-focus-on-developers-the-full-internal-memo/9327?tag=nl.e550
“U.S. VC cleantech investment tops $1.14 billion in Q1 2011”
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/us-vc-cleantech-investment-tops-114-billion-in-q1-2011/15978?tag=nl.e550
On that note I had the following email forwarded to me.
Help Wanted: 24 Clean Energy Firms
Hiring 300 New Employees Right Now
by KEVIN DOYLE
It’s rough out there. We all know that job creation isn’t as vibrant as it would be if we had more consistent and sensible federal energy policies. But that doesn’t mean that New England clean energy companies aren’t hiring. From Advanced Electron Beams to Ze-gen, clean energy employersare looking for talented people. Whether it’s solar or wind, efficiency or batteries, biofuels or insulation, you don’t have to look far to find “help wanted” signs in the shop windows.
Want proof? It’s not hard to find. On the morning of April 4th, I quickly visited the websites of a small group of member companies of the New England Clean Energy Council (www.cleanenergycouncil.org) to get a hiring snapshot of the industry.
I skated over some of the really big national employers in the Council membership, like Philips and Belcan Corporation. Job seekers shouldn’t give them a pass, though! Both companies are in a big time hiring mode. Philips has 680 job openings all over the country, and Belcan is looking to hire more than 1100 people in the US.
In the end, I picked out a small group of representative clean energy employers., and started plowing through the “help wanted” postings. Those 24 companies alone had 300 current job openings advertised right now.
Keep in mind that these companies represent the tiniest fraction of the industry total. There are more than 1,500 clean energy related companies in Massachusetts alone, and many more in Connecticut, Rhode Island and the rest of New England.
Who’s looking for the most people? Well, it will come as no surprise to learn that companies with a national reach have the greatest number of offerings, and that those jobs are distributed throughout the country. Massachusetts based companies like Ameresco (50+ openings), A123 Systems (46 openings), Conservation Services Group (35), Boston-Power (26), and EnerNOC (24) topped the list of employers seeking new workers among those we looked at.
Far more typical of the industry were the many companies that are seeking just a few people, likeNext Step Living and American Superconductor (14 each), Borrego Solar (12), Nuvera (10), Digital Lumens (8), Alteris (7), Advanced Electron Beams and Beaumont Solar (6 each). Harvest Power,Konarka, GMZ, and Nexamp all had ads for five new people.
Finally, there are many that need just a handful of new employees. Liquid Piston, for example, was advertising four current job openings. Aircuity, Aspen Aerogels, Metabolix, Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Qteros and Ze-gen were all seeking three new workers.
Small potatoes, you think? Perhaps, but a regional industry with hundreds of companies hiring, the numbers add up to a lot of new jobs now in a labor market that’s shedding jobs in many other sectors.
Just what are these companies looking for, you ask? Glad to answer.
The industry is hiring lots of engineers, of course, from a wide variety of different engineering specialties, including electrical, energy, industrial process, software, and more. Follow-up conversations confirmed that top rank engineers for these positions are hard to find, even at a time when unemployment is high. We’ll have more about the industry’s acute need for talented engineers in future blog posts.
Also high on the “help wanted” list are IT professionals, project managers, finance and accounting staff, energy auditors, renewable energy system installment and maintenance people, and a variety of sales, marketing and administrative pros.
So, take heart, job seekers. There may not be a huge wave of clean energy jobs cresting, but there is a tide that is steadily rising. We’ll track and comment upon all things workforce related through this blog, and also bring you reports from the industry’s HR directors, recruiters and trainers.
Whether you’re an employer or employee; a job seeker or an interviewer; a professor or a student; we’d love to hear your stories. You can post your thoughts to the blog directly, or get in touch with me using the contact information below
How to find the employers:
If you’d like to check out job offerings at the companies mentioned above, you’ll find a full list of links at: http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org/our_members. Happy hunting. (I second that feeling. Happy job hunting.)
“Alcatel-Lucent Chops Away at Years of Failure”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227029794705.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology
“Crunching the Data of Love”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_19/b4227032797839.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+technology
See math isn’t so boring after all. It really does lead to love.
Comcast to add more content in its On-Demand service.
http://www.trcbnews.com/comcast-makes-all-the-efforts-to-compete-netflix/112717/
“Infoblox upgrades DNS appliances to ease move to IPv6”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050311-infoblox-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_wan_2011-05-03
“How to be an effective security buyer”
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/050211-andreas.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03
“Home Wi-Fi Network Security: 4 Ways to Avoid Big Trouble”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-home-wi-fi-network-security-4.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_strategies_2011-05-03
“VMware causes second outage while recovering from first”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-vmware-foundry-outage.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_cloud_security_2011-05-03
“Free DNS service adds IPv6 support”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-opendns-ipv6.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_network_architecture_2011-05-03
Guess who’s coming back...........................Its “Clippy”!
http://www.dailytech.com/Microsofts+Clippy+Makes+A+Comeback+Sort+Of/article21514.htm
I kid you not.
"Apple updates iMac with Intel, AMD chips"
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-updates-imac-with-intel-amd-chips-2011-05-03?dist=countdown
Surfs up!.................... Eric
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