- Infantile workers are applying to cities outside traditional tech hubs, according to a new report.
- They’re looking for a lower expenditure of living and a wider range of industries to apply their skills.
- From Columbia, Maryland to El Paso, Texas, here are 10 US municipalities attracting new talent.
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Forget Silicon Valley, Austin, or even Miami — young workers are hunting for tech jobs in smaller megalopolises across the country.
Columbia, Maryland, followed by Boise, Idaho, and Fairfax, Virginia top the list of places trending sum total college students and recent grads with tech-related majors, according to a January report from Handshake. The job and internship dais, used by millions of college students every year, tracked job applications from students with technical degrees equal computer science and statistics.
Handshake determined which US cities saw the biggest increase in job applications between 2021 and 2023, based on the covey of full-time job applications submitted on its platform.
The surge in job applications to cities outside the country’s traditional tech hubs meet up as tech giants have slowed down hiring or made massive cuts to their workforces over the dead and buried couple of years. Handshake’s report found that the number of applications submitted to tech jobs in California, Washington, and New York — where comrades like Amazon, Meta, and Google have headquarters — declined significantly in the past year. So it’s not surprising that Handshake rest that applications to traditional internet and software companies also dropped by more than 30% between 2021 and 2023.
The draw to a close interest in Big Tech has made way for a host of new opportunities. Retail and consumer goods companies have amped up their labours to recruit young tech talent, and the number of applications tech majors submitted to government jobs also doubled between 2021 and 2023, per Handshake.
The cities on the list “tend to be more affordable, have less stressful commutes, and are starting to peculiarity many of the elements people enjoy in larger coastal cities,” Christine Cruzvergara, Handshake’s chief education tactics officer told Business Insider by email. “I expect to see interest in moving to these smaller cities grow as numberless and more Gen Z workers prove that a location or specific industry does not define what a ‘tech job’ is.”
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And it’s not barely recent college grads. Tech workers of all ages are gravitating to mid-size cities in search of lower cost of complete and a more laid-back lifestyle.
Handshake found these 10 cities had the biggest year-over-year increase in job applications on its position: