Gen Con could spur growth for local businesses
WISH-TV’s Eric Halvorson reported on TechPoint’s League of Extraordinary Programmers event on Friday evening at the height of Gen Con, the original, longest-running, best-attended, gaming convention in the world! Gen Con attendees are also some of the world’s top tech talent, so TechPoint took the chance while they were in town to introduce them to Indy’s […]
Turnover Begets Turnover: Nip It in the Bud!
It’s a fact: hiring and retaining software developers is going to be an increasing priority for your company in 2015. The talent competition is heating up as new companies move into central Indiana. Just last week, marketing intelligence startup DemandJump chose central Indiana over Austin and San Francisco to invest more than $1.2 million and add more […]
The Next Top 10 Cities for Tech Jobs: #6 Indianapolis
Indy is at it again, gaining national recognition as a fast-growing tech hub. Fast Company magazine named Indianapolis #6 on “The Next Top 10 Cities for Tech Jobs” list. We already knew this city was doing great things, but it is great to see others recognize it as well! Our recent Central Indiana Tech Workforce Study showed […]
4 Crucial Components for an Employee Handbook
Most of us have suffered through a dry and boring policy manual at a new hire orientation at some point in our careers. When we set out to create an employee handbook for SmallBox, we wanted to make something our team would actually want to read. As a creative agency of designers who operate in […]
Technical skills ‘mismatch’ threatens Indiana’s economy
It is an inescapable fact that Indiana faces a growing gap between the number of jobs that require technical skills and the number of workers who possess them. This reality was made abundantly clear in a recent study by HireUp Indy and TechPoint. It found that computer and information technology (IT) jobs in Indiana grew […]
