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Hartford One Of Nation's Fastest Growing Tech Talent Markets

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Hartford is one of the 10 fastest growing small markets for tech talent this year, according to a report from CBRE, a commercial real estate firm.

Lexi Russell, a researcher at CBRE, says Hartford’s tech labor pool jumped 10 percent in just the past two years.

“The acceleration in growth really supports the idea that Hartford is a great place because of the supply of tech talent, because of the growth. All of these things are kind of coming together.”

Russell says even though Hartford ranks 37th out of 50 cities with tech talent, she says tech jobs are strong in sectors like government and insurance.

The report says Hartford has good quality tech talent and moderate labor costs.

Boston also has moderate labor costs, but very high quality talent.

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Cassandra Basler comes to WSHU by way of Columbia Journalism School in New York City. She recently graduated with a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, which means she has two years to report on an issue anywhere in the world (she's still figuring out where she'd like to go). She grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan, where she worked for the local public radio affiliate. She also wrote about her adventures sampling the city cuisines for the first guidebook to be published in three decades, Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider's Guide to Detroit. Before that, Cassandra studied English, German and Urban Studies at University of Michigan. When she's not reporting on wealth and poverty, she's writing about food and family.
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