16 Area Tech Firms Seek Job Candidates at Lansing Event

Sixteen of the Lansing area's high-tech companies recently showed up at Lansing Community College’s (LCC) job fair in hopes of finding much-needed, high-tech employees to meet the area's growing tech sector needs. Companies are constantly hiring, and have recently upped their efforts to reach out to potential employees.

According to excerpts from the article:

While technology companies in the Lansing area have long said it is difficult to find the high-tech workers they need, the job fair the Capital Area IT Council held at the college showed that it's not just people with computer science degrees who are needed.

Sixteen companies signed up to recruit and talk to LCC students at the fair. The council, still in its first year of existence, has approximately 50 member companies. It works to promote the industry in the local area.

Christopher Knapp, executive director of the IT Council, estimated more than 250 students had talked to companies at the job fair.

One of them, Justin Ray, said he found a company that is aligned with his career goals. The 20-year-old Okemos student in media technology said he hopes to work in a recording studio. He connected with a representative of Harvest Music + Sounddesign, a Lansing-based company that does music production for radio and television commercials.

Until the job fair, Ray hadn't known the company existed."A lot of these smaller companies aren't out in the open and people don't know about them," he said.

More traditional technology companies, such as software developer TechSmith Corp. were also at the event. While most of the company's job openings require four-year computer degrees, some positions require only a two-year degree and other positions aren't tech-intensive.

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