Christie’s Blog:

The Life of an engineering recruiter in the Silicon Valley-

I live, work and play in the bay area. Love it or hate it, the valley is a hot spot for technology and innovation. I have been recruiting smack dab here in the Silicon Valley for 10 years connecting kick a$$ engineers with kick a$$ companies AND vice versa.

My clients – I have hired technologists for companies with as little as 2 employees to as many as more than 6K! My clients include, a few funded stealth mode start ups within the Web 2.0 space, fast growing established start ups such as Mirapoint, and big players such as AOL and Google….. to name a few. I love what I do, but I admit there are days when I want to literally pull out my hair. LOL!

I work too much, spend entirely too much time online, and I am thankful for the inventions of laptops, wireless networks, spell checkers and sugar free redbull. I live in Santa Cruz, so yes, I am one of those insane people who commute over Highway 17 to get to work. I have created this blog to share my love of the bay area, technology, recruitment, my ability (most days) to balance my insanely busy career, motherhood, life & love in the chaotic world which I not only created but love. I am a big fan of GOOD coffee, the beach, cooking, and live music.

My interests are social networking, media, podcasting, blogging, video, messaging, mail, search, smartphones, mobile and most consumer application products. I am eager to learn more about technology and innovation.

Please note, this Blog is entirely MY OPINION and not my clients, my employers, my sisters, my carpool buddies (when I had them), or anyone else. Just me and my two pennies!

Cheers-

Christie

christie AT web20hire.com

Old Blog:

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