Thousands of graduates each year from the engineering and computer science programs at The University of Texas at Austin provide a steady source of employees that help to fuel Austin’s technology and defense industry sectors. The metro Austin area has much lower housing costs than Silicon Valley , but much higher housing costs than many parts of rural Texas. As a result of the relatively high concentration of high-tech companies in the region, Austin was strongly affected by the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and subsequent bust. The general consensus is that high-tech recovery is proceeding rapidly. The proliferation of technology companies has led to the region’s nickname, “the Silicon Hills,” and spurred development that greatly expanded the city to the north, south, east, and west.

In addition to global companies, Austin features a strong network of independent, locally-owned firms and organizations such as the Austin Independent Business Alliance . The success of these businesses reflects the high level of commitment by the citizens of Austin to preserving the unique spirit of the city, and has been tied to the ” Keep Austin Weird ” campaign. Small businesses from restaurants to clothing shops to salons to arts companies in Austin enjoy a lively existence gained by direct competition with large national and global rivals. The state government, non-profits, and schools (the university and colleges, preschool-12th grade) also provide many jobs.

• Accountemps
  Accountemps, a Robert Half Company, is the world’s first and largest specialized financial temporary staffing firm for accounting and financial professionals.

• Accounting Principals, Inc.
  Accounting Principals is a leader in offering workforce solutions in the accounting and financial services industries.

• Adecco
  Provides personnel services to businesses worldwide including temporary help, placement of permanent employees, outsourcing, and training and testing of temporary and permanent workers.

• Aquent
  Aquent is the world’s leading marketing and creative staffing agency. We match professionals with freelance, contract, try-before-you-hire, and full-time job opportunities at top organizations.

• ATR International, Inc.
  A leader in temporary staffing, staff augmentation, direct placement, contingent workforce management, payroll services and independent contractor compliance for technology-based organizations.

• CORESTAFF
  Full-time, direct hire, temp-to-hire and temporary employment.

• Express Personnel Services
  Provides employment and staffing solutions, including evaluation and direct hire, flexible staffing, temporary help, facility staffing and executive placement.

• Inedco LLC
  a temporary staffing service. Our main focus is temporary staffing, we provide services to businesses and individuals.

• Interim HealthCare
  Provides home care and supplemental staffing throughout the United States.

• OfficeTeam
  OfficeTeam specializes in the placement of highly qualified administrative and office support professionals on a temporary and temporary-to-hire basis.

• Westaff
  Staffing services for temporary, temp-to-hire, direct hire and on-location positions. Operates more than 370 offices in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark.