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“Tech sector spurs state’s economic recovery”

Filed under Career Exploration, Companies to Watch, Economic Trends, Industry News
Posted by Libraries, October 24, 2006
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Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe, Oct. 16, 2006

This article recounts some great news for Massachusetts and for anyone seeking jobs in the tech field. Employment in this sector has grown at twice the overall rate of other jobs in state. While this is not a huge explosion of jobs, healthy growth continues on the horizon and promises to revive the overall state economy.

To read the article in full, see
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/10/16/
techsectorspursstateseconomic_recovery/

Interested in a career in technology? For more information and job listings, visit our e-Library at http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/
career/computer.shtml.

—Hagar Shirman