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 […]
Always Be Recruiting: What Tech Talent Really Wants
Casual dress codes, open collaboration, and free snacks are top must-haves for young tech talent. After listening to a panel of IT leaders, recruiters, and local business leaders discuss all things recruitment and retention at the CXO Executive Summit by Evanta, it became clear that hiring top tech talent — and keeping them at your […]
Mitch Daniels answers 8 questions about innovation, entrepreneurship & more
Interactive Intelligence made headlines this week when they announced that their newest board member is Mitch Daniels — the former businessman, Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University. Interactive Intelligence, a NASDAQ publicly traded company, is a global provider of collaboration, communications and customer engagement software and cloud services that employs more than 2,250 people globally — […]