Episode 11: Ryan St. Germaine

Drew and James cover some of the previous events of the week, as well as what is coming for the week of February 1st. The second part of the show, is an interview with Ryan St. Germaine from BCJobs.ca. Interview starts at 0:16:10.

Ryan St. Germaine is the co-founder and CEO of BCJobs.ca as well as the CEO of Jobcast. He also started BC Tech Jobs as well as the tech meetup in Burnaby. We talk about what it is like running a 15 year old tech company, as well as starting new ones. Ryan talks about the changing job market now, and how things may change in the future.

##Interview Links

• BCJobs.ca
• BC Tech Jobs
• Jobcast

##Meetups in the week of Feb 1

###Monday, Feb 1

• VanLUG Board Meeting
  7pm, SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings Street, Xerox Conference Rm. 1500
• Exploring Git!
  5pm, Moose's Down Under, 830 W. Pender St., Vancouver, BC

###Tuesday, Feb 2

• Lunch & Learn | WiderFunnel
  12 - 1pm, BrainStation, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor, Vancouver, BC
• Open Coffee
  8 - 9:30am, Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall Street
• Nonprofit Technology Show and Tell
  6pm, Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 W Hastings St
• Polyglot Social
  6pm, St Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St
• How I grew my list by 700% in 2015, by Petra Mayer
  6 - 9:15pm, Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Building C, North Tower elevator to room 509
• PyLadies Vancouver: Intro to Testing and Test Automation in Python
  7pm, OpenRoad Communications, 12 Water Street
• Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com: How to Not Get Screwed in Venture Financing
  6:30pm, Lighthouse Labs, 350-128 W Hastings

###Wednesday, Feb 3 2016

• Public Cloud User Group (Vancouver) Big Data & Analytics
  6 - 7:30pm, CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St

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Music by Jonatan Liljedahl.