1. The SVC2UK jobs fair will feature 35 of the top Cambridge start-ups coming together to see
how many of the engineering, commercial and product management jobs these companies
have “open” can be filled in a single day...
The top 50 companies hired 5,900 people last year to help them grow, how many will they hire
in 2013?
SILICON VALLEY COMES TO THE UK 2012 JOBS FAIR
http://www.svc2uk.com/jobs-fair/companies/
“First mover advantage doesn’t go to the company that starts up,
it goes to the company that scales up.” - Reid Hoffman/Linkedin Co-Founder
London & Cambridge, UK, 4 November 2012 –
Hugh Parnell, Chairman Cambridge Cleantech, said “One of the hardest thing to do when you are
growing fast as a company is finding top talent”: Silicon Valley Comes to the UK recognises this
and on the 16th November is hosting a jobs fair to help the fastest growing and most promising
companies in Cambridge find more people to hire! A LOT more people! Last year, the top 50
companies hired just under 6,000 people, they have many many open positions right now.
The SVC2UK Jobs Fair will host most of Cambridge’s most exciting and fast growing
companies, including many companies from the “Killer 50” list of the Cambridge Cluster Map
(www.cambridgeclustermap.com). Companies such as Arm Limited, Aveva, Real VNC, Ubisense,
Frontier, Cambridge Temperature Concepts and Aurasma .
At 50 years old this year, Cambridge is Europe’s oldest cluster and you can see why clusters like
Tech City are being encouraged by the Government of the day.
The top 50 companies in Cambridge grew their revenue by £1.3 bn last year, (from £6.1 bn to £7.4
bn) an impressive hike of 17.6%. The same 50 companies also grew their employment by 4,164 (from
24,192 to 28, 356) by 14.7%. The 50 companies that hired the most took on 23.2% more staff on
average (grew from 19,536 to 25,437). With a 2% unemployment rate in Cambridge you can see why
they are casting the net around the country. Why not come up and meet them? They are growing 20
times faster then most companies, so....

2. If you are an experienced commercial director, a product manager or an engineer and want to
work for companies that are growing 20X faster than most, then come up to Cambridge! We’ve
got great companies, great schools an amazing community and we are growing like mad!
Cambridge has created 10 billion pound companies in the past decade - these are the next in
the queue. (Source: Cambridge Cluster Map).
If you know of anyone who might want to work in one of the next billion £ companies to come out of
Cambridge, tell them to register here: http://svc2uk-jobsfair.eventbrite.co.uk.
Notes to Editors
About SVC2UK
Founded by Sherry Coutu, Reid Hoffman, and Ellen Levy in 2006, the SVC2UK programme is a
not for profit series of events run by more than 200 volunteers from the tech industry and university
student population. that bring together leader investors, serial entrepreneurs, and students from the
UK with prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors to debate, create, and fund disruptive
technology based businesses that will change our world in the years to come. http://www.svc2uk.com/
Sponsors include: Google for Entrepreneurs, BT, BBC Worldwide, Facebook, Barclays, Linkedin,
University of Cambridge, Entrepreneur First, Penningtons, Cambridge Healthcare, Judge Business
School, Computer Lab, Microsoft Bizspark, Pictet. See http://www.svc2uk.com/ for the full list.
Partners of the event include: UKTI, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, University of
Oxford, Startup Weekend, Angelhack, Young Enterprise, Cambridge Network, One-Nucleos, Cfel,
CUE, CUTEC, Cambridge Cleantech, Cambridge Wireless and more...
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