PORTLAND — Laid-off Intel workers will have an opportunity to survey new possibilities at a Portland job fair scheduled for the afternoon of June 1. The event is open to others seeking tech work, too.
Intel laid off nearly 800 workers in Washington County last month, part of a broad reorganization designed to prepare the company for long-term decline in its core PC business. Several hundred more Intel employees will leave their jobs in the coming weeks and months through buyouts, early retirements and project cancellations.
Intel is Oregon’s largest private employer and its ongoing cutbacks are among the biggest rounds of job losses in the history of Oregon technology.
A number of efforts are underway to help.
Rick Turoczy, general manager of the Portland Incubator Experiment and author of the Silicon Florist Blog, is convening a job fair next month to help Intel alumni find work. The event runs from 1 to 5 p.m. June 1 at the Falcon Building, 321 N.W. Glisan St., in Portland. Sign up online.
The event is open to former Intel employees as well as others in the Oregon tech community looking for work, including former Jive Software employees laid off last week.
