7 Tips For Getting Your Foot in the Door at a Hot Tech Startup

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7 Tips For Getting Your Foot in the Door at a Hot Tech Startup
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Research shows that the top 25 highest paying companies (http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/high-paying-tech-internships/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) for interns are dominated by tech companies, including Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Blackrock (http://www.blackrock.com/), Palantir (http://www.palantir.com/) and Amazon (http://mashable.com/category/amazon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). It’s easy to see why: From 2010 to 2020, computer-related occupations are expected to grow 22% (http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/how-to-break-into-the-tech-industry-infographic/), compared to the 14% projected growth of all other occupations.

If you’re a young professional interested in tech, it may be wise to turn to the startup world in lieu of more traditional jobs. New startups add an average of 3 million jobs in their first year (http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/firm-formation-and-growth-******/the-importance-of-startups-in-job-creation-and-job-destruction), and one-year-old tech startup firms create about 1 million jobs, while 10-year-old firms generate around 300,000 positions Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/18/tech-startup-jobs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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