Just as telling is the office space getting snapped up<\/a>.\u00a0 Rents are climbing in Palo Alto, Cupertino and SoMa (South of Market) district, fueled by largely by news leases from tech firms.\u00a0 According to real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle, there was 2.5 million square feet of space already leased by tech since the start of 2010 and 90 companies are looking for 2.3 million square feet more.<\/p>\n Tech segments that were in comparative infancy a few years ago are leading the way, including social media, cloud computing, and mobile application development.\u00a0 The price-to-earnings ratio shows a much more grounded perspective than what happened in the 1990\u2019s, with tech companies today averaging 16 (versus a heady 70 before the bust).<\/p>\n It is clear that growth is strong in one modern-day\u2019s IT haunts and hopes are that it will spill over into the greater job market nationally and internationally.\u00a0 Early signs indicate upward trends all around with IT being a leading growth industry coming out of the down economy.<\/p>\n For those looking to ride the rising wave, investing in education for key areas like Android developer training<\/a>, project management training<\/a>, ITIL training<\/a>, and networking training<\/a>, there is sure to be an open market of job opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tech is flying high again in the Bay City, by some estimates higher than the Dot Com boom of the late 1990\u2019s. San Fransisco, California is fabled for various things through the ages, many being of the economic variety.\u00a0 The California Gold Rush of the mid-nineteenth century caused what was a small town of 1,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,81,5,26,37,63],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-application-development","tag-itil","tag-job-market","tag-mobile","tag-networking","tag-servers-and-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"San](\"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SanFrancisco1.jpg\" "\\"San")
<\/a>Today, tech remains an important part of the economy and is seeing an irrefutable re-emergence.\u00a0 VC investment and IPOs are increasing.\u00a0 Job growth is riding on the coattails of that influx.\u00a0 The approximate peak of tech jobs in San Fransisco was 32,800 in Q1 of 2001.\u00a0 After bottoming out in Q1 of 2004 at 17,100, the end of 2010 had it back up to 30,700.\u00a0 Everyone in the industry\u00a0says the numbers are assuredly higher now, potentially over the previous peak.<\/p>\n