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itbrew.com
Free
Article
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data
Context

IT Brew: AI Demand and Unsteady Tech Employment

Published
2026-10-06

Reports on September 2026 tech unemployment, job postings and AI-skills demand using CompTIA’s analysis of BLS data and PwC’s workforce survey. Explains the coexistence of job losses and hiring demand; job postings are not completed hires.

#tech-jobs#hiring-data#role-change
itbrew.comAdded Nov 13, 20260 opens
cnbc.com
Free
Article
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data
Context

Why New York City is attracting more tech workers

CNBC Make It examines New York City's technology employment and its appeal to workers, reporting that the city now has more tech workers than San Francisco. The November 9 feature provides regional labor-market context rather than a list of currently open jobs.

#tech-jobs#new-york-city#labor-market
cnbc.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
manpowergroup.com
Free
Report
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data

Q4 2026 Experis Tech Talent Outlook

ManpowerGroup's quarterly hiring outlook for tech and IT services, based on responses from 4,258 employers in 42 countries collected in July 2026. Available as an online viewer and PDF.

#reports#tech-jobs#hiring
manpowergroup.comAdded Oct 30, 20260 opens
jobappagent.com
Free
Website
Job Boards

JobAppAgent job board

A job board listing open roles at startups and AI companies, sorted newest first, with filters for location, workplace type, pay and posting date.

#job-board#startups#ai
jobappagent.comAdded Oct 30, 20260 opens
highereddive.com
Free
Article
Career & Professional Optimization

AI, computer science and the shifting reality of tech employment

Sponsored piece (Feb. 2026) arguing CS jobs aren't collapsing but getting harder to enter; cites 6.1% unemployment for new CS grads vs 4.8% overall.

Why I recommend it: Paid content written by Rize Education, which sells courses to colleges. Free to read.

#computer-science#entry-level#job markets
highereddive.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
jobs.technyc.org
Free
Job Board
Career & Professional Optimization

Tech:NYC Job Board

A free job board covering openings across the Tech:NYC network — the industry group representing New York tech employers. It was showing 7,816 live jobs when I checked, and it is deliberately weighted towards in-person New York roles rather than remote listings. Filters cover job title and keyword, seniority, salary and company, and a separate tab lets you browse the member companies themselves, which is useful even if you never apply through the board. You can join their talent network and set job alerts free. Listings are aggregated by Getro, so the postings live on each employer's own site and the board is a directory pointing at them. Not just engineering: the roles on show ranged from banking and accounting at J.P. Morgan to enterprise sales at OpenAI to brand and communications work.

Why I recommend it: Use the company browser before the job list. Because every employer here is a Tech:NYC member, that tab is a ready-made target list of New York tech companies — and reaching a hiring manager at one of them directly beats being applicant 400 on the board. Two honest notes: the count changes daily and an aggregated board can carry stale postings, so always confirm the role still exists on the employer's own careers page before you invest time in a tailored application; and because it is New York-focused by design, it is the wrong board if you need remote work.

#aggregator#early-career#hiring
jobs.technyc.orgAdded Sep 22, 20260 opens
index.dev
Free
Article
Career & Professional Optimization

Emerging AI Roles Companies Are Hiring For

A breakdown of ten new AI job titles — from agent orchestration to evaluations specialists — with what each role actually does and what hiring managers screen for.

From the site: Discover the 10 fastest-growing AI roles in 2026. Learn who to hire for ethics, UX, prompt engineering, and more. Stay ahead with AI talent.

Why I recommend it: Written to help companies hire, which makes it a clear read on the titles and skills being asked for right now if you are aiming at AI work.

#ai#ai-careers#ai-jobs
index.devAdded Sep 18, 20260 opens
Second Talent
Free
Guide
Interview Prep

SecondTalent Interview Guides

Question banks for more than 100 technical roles — Node.js, Azure, Golang, Kubernetes, OAuth and more — each with sample answers, updated regularly. Free to read with no sign-up.

From the site: Ready-to-use technical interview questions and structured guides for developer roles and frameworks, from Remix to Magento. Updated September 2026.

Why I recommend it: Written for the people doing the interviewing, which is exactly why it is useful — you get to see the questions and the answers they are grading against.

#interview#interview-prep#interview-questions
Second TalentAdded Sep 18, 20260 opens
Index.dev
Free
Platform
Career & Professional Optimization

Index.dev

A vetted marketplace matching senior engineers, researchers and AI specialists with companies. Free for engineers to apply and be matched; companies pay only on hire.

From the site: Hire global, AI-first engineers with Index.dev. Skip delays and scale your tech team with pre-verified, secure, and compliant talent to build faster.

Why I recommend it: Free on the candidate side — you are the product being placed. Expect a real vetting process rather than a quick apply button.

#ai-jobs#contract-work#engineering
Index.devAdded Sep 18, 20261 opens
Dataspace
Free
Job Board
Career & Professional Optimization

Dataspace Data Job Postings

Current openings in data engineering, analytics and data science posted by Dataspace, a staffing firm that specialises in data roles.

From the site: Browse open data science contract jobs, including data science, engineering, and analytics roles at industry-leading companies nationwide.

Why I recommend it: A niche board rather than a big one. Worth a look precisely because far fewer people are applying through it than through the giant sites.

#analytics#data#data-analyst
DataspaceAdded Sep 18, 20261 opens
wwt.com
Free
Organization
Career & Professional Optimization

World Wide Technology

Large technology solutions provider; its site publishes free technical research, labs and articles alongside its own job listings.

Why I recommend it: Two uses: a big employer worth knowing about, and a source of free hands-on technical labs if you are building infrastructure skills.

#employer#it#labs
wwt.comAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
amazon.jobs
Free
Program
Career & Professional Optimization

Amazon Web Services Early Career

AWS's own page for students and recent graduates: internships, new-grad roles and the programs it runs to fill them.

From the site: It's amazing how having a job you love has a ripple effect on the rest of your life. Whether you're just getting started or you want to take on new challenges, you have an array of opportunities to build a great future at AWS. See why AWS is the best p...

Why I recommend it: Read the timelines carefully. Big-company early-career programs often close months before the start date, so a page that looks open all year usually is not.

#cloud#entry-level#internship
amazon.jobsAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
pi.dev
Free
AI Tool
AI & Assistive Tools

Pi

A terminal-based coding agent you run locally to read, write and refactor code from the command line.

From the site: A terminal-based coding agent

Why I recommend it: If you already live in a terminal, this is a lighter way to try agentic coding than a full IDE.

#ai#coding#developer-tools
pi.devAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
Tom
Free
Publisher
Technology & Ethics

Tom's Hardware

Long-running hardware publication covering chips, GPUs, AI infrastructure and the machines behind it, free to read.

From the site: Tom

Why I recommend it: Useful if you're heading toward hardware, data centers or AI infrastructure and need to know what people actually run.

#hardware#technology#news
TomAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
Emergence AI
Free
Organization
AI & Assistive Tools

Emergence AI

A company building governed, verifiable agentic infrastructure for enterprise systems, with free research and publications on its site.

From the site: Emergence builds mission-critical agentic infrastructure for enterprise. Verified, governed AI agents that plan, reason, and act across the most complex systems.

Why I recommend it: Their research and reports are free to read; the platform itself is an enterprise product, so treat the writing as the resource here.

#agents#ai#ai-governance
Emergence AIAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
agents.md
Free
Website
AI & Assistive Tools

AGENTS.md

An open format for telling coding agents how to work in your repository, now used by tens of thousands of open-source projects.

From the site: AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.

Why I recommend it: If you're experimenting with AI coding tools, this is the convention to follow so your instructions actually get read.

#ai#agents#coding
agents.mdAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
world.emergence.ai
Free
Document
Technology & Ethics

Emergence World Report (Season 2)

A free report from Emergence AI surveying agentic AI in enterprise settings — where agents are being deployed and what governs them.

Why I recommend it: Read it as an industry vendor's view of where agent work is going, useful context if you're targeting AI roles.

#agents#ai#ai-governance
world.emergence.aiAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
workforamerica.org
Free
Job Board
Community & Government Resources

Work for America — CivicMatch for Job Seekers

A free platform matching job seekers with public-interest and government roles: create a profile once and get matched with state and local government employers hiring.

Why I recommend it: Worth a profile if you want stable, mission-driven work. Government hiring is slow, so start earlier than you would in the private sector.

#career-change#civic-tech#free-tools
workforamerica.orgAdded Sep 17, 20260 opens
build.a16z.com
Free
Fellowship
Career & Professional Optimization

a16z FDE Fellowship

A fellowship from a16z for aspiring forward-deployed engineers — people who sit with customers and build software directly against their problems.

Why I recommend it: The forward-deployed engineer role is one of the fastest-growing job titles in AI — this is a paid-attention way in before the market floods.

#a16z#ai#application
build.a16z.comAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens
workatastartup.com
Free
Job Board
Career & Professional Optimization

Work at a Startup (Y Combinator)

Y Combinator's free job platform listing thousands of engineering, design, sales, operations and internship roles at YC-funded startups, with one profile that founders can contact you through.

Why I recommend it: One application profile puts you in front of hundreds of funded startups. Great for early-career people who want responsibility fast; filter by "internship" and by how much experience is required.

#early-career#engineering-jobs#entrepreneurship
workatastartup.comAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
nextplay.so
Free
Job Board
Career & Professional Optimization

Next Play

A free job platform for startup roles, filterable by skills, location, work type, industry and company size, with browsing by role and by city.

Why I recommend it: A focused place to look if you want a startup rather than a large employer.

#free#hiring#job markets
nextplay.soAdded Sep 15, 20260 opens
scalis.ai
Free
Job Board
Career & Professional Optimization

SCALIS Jobs

A job search built on top of an AI recruiting platform, with best-match ranking, saved job preferences, and filters by category, industry, and experience level across a very large aggregated listing pool.

Why I recommend it: Set your job preferences first — the default feed is enormous and only becomes useful once the matching has something to work with.

#aggregator#ai#ai-jobs
scalis.aiAdded Sep 14, 20261 opens
oreilly.com
Free
Training Program
Technology & Ethics

O'Reilly Learning

A technical learning platform with 60,000+ books, 30,000+ hours of video, live online events, and interactive labs and sandboxes from O'Reilly and nearly 200 other publishers.

Why I recommend it: Check your public library card and any school or employer account before paying — many library systems give full O'Reilly access for free, and some live events are open to anyone.

#learning#training#books
oreilly.comAdded Sep 14, 20261 opens
janestreet.com
Free
Program
Community & Government Resources

Jane Street Programs and Events (North America)

Jane Street's listing of student programs and recruiting events in North America, including immersion and insight programs for first- and second-year undergraduates and workshops open to students exploring quant, trading, and software roles.

Why I recommend it: Several of these programs are aimed specifically at students who have faced barriers getting into tech and finance, and they recruit heavily from them. Deadlines run far ahead of the summer, so check dates now.

#career#entry-level#events
janestreet.comAdded Sep 14, 20260 opens