[PLUG-JOBS] (JOB) Why more contract / temporary positions?

[Shane Gibson]

Derek,

A lot of companies (in the Bay Area; too) prefer to bring in new people in
a "contract-to-hire" basis.  This allows them to "try them out" first
before hiring as a full time employee.  I do think that the Portland area
tends to do this a lot more frequently than I see in job postings in the
Bay Area.  It's possible that the labor laws in Oregon are slightly
different than in California; which may drive the desire to not lock an
employee in as an FTE, since it may be "harder" to get rid of bad employees
in Oregon.  I'm only surmising on this, though.

This list is a pretty poor reflection of the job opportunities in the PDX
area.  Checked linked in, The Ladders, and there are a lot of great tech
related recruiting/talent companies focused on the PDX area market.

~~shane


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"The farther one goes, the less one knows." —Tao Te Ching


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:34 PM, crquan <crquan at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi there,
>
> I'm currently in a major Hi-Tech company in SF Bay Area,
> have been here for some years and get bored, intend to relocate
> and Portland is pretty nice city that I have subscribed this ML
> for some time, but till now can see only some contract / temporary
> positions,
> anyone know why? is the place lack of long time Linux related positions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> - Derek
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