New technology jobs are coming to Detroit.
Quicken Loans founder and chairman Dan Gilbert has been buying buildings and looking for technology tenants as part of a business he co-founded with Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and Brian Hermelin called Detroit Venture Partners LLC.
In a promotional video, Detroit Ventures Partners say their goal is to transform Detroit.
"This is our time to turn a crumbled city into a new beacon of hope."
But the self-proclaimed "creative business builders" and "street-fighters" are having a tough time finding talent in Michigan.
The Detroit News reports today Quicken Loans and other tech companies are looking to fill positions with people from out of state.
Online mortgage company Quicken Loans Inc., looking to fill more than 300 information technology positions, has taken its search outside Michigan to find qualified candidates. The Detroit-based company recently launched a website aimed at recruiting laid-off Yahoo workers. GalaxE.Solutions, a project management firm known for its "Outsource to Detroit" banner on its Woodward Avenue building, has stumbled trying to fill 500 IT jobs. "There is a shortage nationwide of good IT talent," said Ryan Hoyle, director of global recruiting for GalaxE, which has 150 IT workers in Detroit and hopes to add 350 in the next few years. "There just aren't a lot of top students going into IT."
Michigan's Bureau of Labor Market Information & Strategic Initiatives lists several IT jobs on its Michigan's Hot Jobs List.
These are "high demand and high wage" careers in Michigan that are expected to continue to be in demand through 2018.
