Stuck in Vermont 63: Dealer.com

1/18/08: Ping pong, lattes, plants, OH MY!

Dealer.com is a VT company that recently expanded into plush new digs and is hiring a young, technically savvy workforce.

There has been lots of talk lately about young people leaving Vermont in search of better paid, high tech jobs - does Dealer.com offer a ray of hope?

Walking into their massive colorful new space, it is hard to believe that you are in VT: 65,000 square feet of wide open workspace, an organic cafe on site to fuel its workers, a gym with HDTVs, a blue and lavender tennis court, a ping pong table, basketball court, bean bag chairs and an abundance of plants.

The primarily young workforce is expanding and many of them are Vermonters, some of whom got their feet in the door through ITAR, Vermont IT Apprenticeship Readiness Program.

Makes you wonder if VT is slowly catching up to the technological boom as our high speed internet connection gets stronger. Perhaps VT is still in the game after all.

FEATURED:
http://www.dealer.com/
http://www.vthitec.org/

MUSIC: Pretty & Nice off their Pink & Blue album, "Busy Bees"
http://www.myspace.com/prettyandnice

RELATED: Our new video feature, The Campus Question asks St Mike's students what it would take to keep them in VT after graduation:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1387524966

Category:

Science & Technology

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• dealer.com
• cars
• tech
• jobs
• technology
• companies
• vermont
• burlington
• stuck
• seven
• days

[patriotgyrl65]

I love Burlington...

And being "stuck in Vermont" is head and shoulders above being stuck down here in the DIRTY SOUTH.

[111sk8er]

Wow that is cool

[offense2007]

good luck.

[weker1]

That place looks fun!

And illinois is the same way, you may get out but it will pull you back.

[bradtube1]

That's awesome! I love Vermont and Ping Pong! Burlington's such a great city. Nice story.

[rebelwaltz7]

Well, there's one place to send a resume!Humane working conditions are soooo important. As always, it's great you let people tell their stories, Eva. I hope your workplace at least has some plants even if you don't have ping pong.