Pittsburgh Technology Council

Category: Organizations
==Background ==
==Insights==
===People===
* Raj Patel
==News==
* About 110 denizens of the local life sciences scene will get face time Jan. 3, 2007, with U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter at an invite-only open forum sponsored by the Pittsburgh Technology Council.
** How does one have an open forum by make it invite only. That isn't open. It is really a closed forum with a US Senator. 
===Links Elsewhere===
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The Pittsburgh Technology Council use to be a good resource in the early 1990s. 
Some Tech Council staffers did impact a crowd they weren't part of. 
The Tech Council is minimally valueable as a job resource since the mid 1990s. It's a free perk for paying member companies. It's actually the core usage of their entire website. Minus job leads, the website would not be used much.
The Council was more effective when the boom was going on. Everyone was. There was more milk and honey to go around. Although their membership rolls count more than 1,300, more were there in the past. Many of the member companies are not technology focused but simply sell stuff to the technology companies, i.e., copier store, law firms, accountants, etc.
The Tech Council removed salary information from the job postings. People like to spring bargain basement salary, smelling desperation. 
The Tech Council is company focused and recruiter friendly. A good percentage of the jobs are dupes - non-qualified leads that the head hunters all run around with hoping to get referral fees. So same job lead gets posted by two or three head hunters and maybe the real hiring company. Thus inflation in numbers of jobs.
A big chunk of the jobs are recycled. They appeared before, reached say 90 or 180 days of being up and the poster says keep them running. So you see new jobs - that aren't new at all. Usually they aren't ever hiring the position or the person who got hired was never communicated to the person who does the web posting for them.
Tech Council isn't loaded with technology or interested Techies. Most staffers have no computer/technology background and little interest in learning more about such.
The Council is fairly predictable for our fair region. Very typical of the non-profit scene. If you went to the doctor for his expert opinion and he had an Aeronautics background or was an English major he wouldn't be there, you wouldn't be there and it wouldn't happen. But there are tons of these scenarios here in the non-profit scene where people without letters of qualification and without interest have the job and go through the motions.
The Council's postings are with the same traction as a Post-Gazette job posting.
Tech Council's postings can signal new companies and some rapidly expansions in companies. Job postings are an indicator of growth.