Texas recruiters and IT gigs

Edward22_Tech

A friend and I will be relocating to Texas (Austin, Dallas or Houston) mid next year and I'm wondering if anybody here could be kind enough to recommend an IT Recruiter or two and some good resources for job searching in this area. Maybe something other than LinkedIn, Dice, Indeed for this area?

Or, if you relocated to Texas could you fill me in on your method that worked for job searching?

Our job specialization is in the Security sub sector of IT.

Thanks ahead of time.

DoubleNNs

I'm curious too. I always hear that the job market there is great, but whenever I do searches on the conventional resources, I don't see many job ads. That's actually what kept me from relocating there in the past.

MeanDrunkR2D2

I can speak of the DFW area and there are TONS of jobs there. I've heard the same for both Houston and Austin. It really all comes down to what you want to do, how experienced you are and if you are in a high level position. Competition is definitely much higher there and can be hard to get hired unless you offer something not many may have. You probably won't see many new positions being listed until after the new year, but honestly the best thing you can do is to network out there and search on the big employer job sites as they are updated frequently and sometimes will fill a job before it can hit the dice/moster/careerbuilder sites out there.

When I relocated there it was a person I knew that helped me land my role there. They do focus more on the technical side in Texas so you will need strong skills in that area and then use your personality to land it. Other places I have been it's been the opposite and they want a good team member an dknow that they can train a person to know their way or new skills, but cannot teach how to be a good team member.

Personally, if you know that you want to be in Austin, focus on the major employers there. Same goes if you would rather be in DFW or Houston. As far as recruiters go, they generally have so many potential clients that they don't always branch out for new people because they have a large pool of potential employees to go through.

zidian

I live in the DFW area and my neighbor has been an IT Recruiter for a while and just switched to a smaller recruiting firm this week. With him being at a new job, he'd probably be happy to take on new people.

I'll send you a PM with his email address.

Doesn't look like I can send you a PM yet, you don't have enough posts. I'll give his linked in instead:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-croall/6/97/b75

GreenHornet

Hey thanks for sharing that linkedin profile. My wife and I are traveling to Texas this February to see if it's a good fit for us. I've been living in Atlanta for close to 9 years and it's alright, but the job market here is somewhat saturated since every job is only in Atlanta. This makes for a small watering hole for IT professionals. Even with a CCNA, CCNA Security, and JNCIA it's hard getting a full time gig, that pays at least $65+. Most of these recruiters want someone with 10+ years experience and wants to pay them only $34/hr. That sucks big time dude.

alias454

I would be interested in some good contacts down that way too. We went down for a two week vacation in October and just loved it. My girlfriend has family in Houston and a buddy of mine lives in Del Rio so we drove over to see him too while we were down there. Even with Houston being the 4th largest city in the US, it doesn't feel like some other smaller big cities. It feels a lot more welcoming Everywhere, and I mean everywhere we went, I saw help wanted signs, which to me means a good economy. Something I would be curious about is how companies deal with out of state hiring? What is the usual process for that?

Thanks