How CreateGreat.org became nycHired.com

A Quantum Leap

CreateGreat...not so Great

(We did get one true believer)

TEAMBUILDING

NEW YORK HAS A PROBLEM

Validating the Assumption

Although the unemployment rate in the Big Apple remains over 9 percent — roughly double what’s considered healthy — the demand for programmers and engineers to work in the city’s burgeoning internet startup scene is stronger than it’s been in a decade.

As the economy slowly pulls out of first gear, one sector that is clearly in fifth gear is IT. From Silicon Valley to Detroit to New York, a war for tech talent is now being played out as companies struggle to find – and hold on to – skilled engineers and developers.