October 13, 2006 3:13 PM

Local tech jobs for high school grads
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 3:13 PM

If you're a local high school graduate with some tech skills, Friday the 13th may just be your lucky day.

As this story reports, many area financial institutions are hiring tech help locally, and recent high school grads are who they are looking to recruit:

At a time when many manufacturing jobs have evaporated, low-income high school graduates are gravitating toward technology support and other back-office jobs, a class of work more associated with Bangalore than Boston. Yet, several financial services giants, including State Street, Bank of America Corp., and Putnam Investments, are running local operations that serve their employees across the nation or overseas.

"We have a voracious need for technology people," said Richard W. Pearl , a vice president for State Street. "So, not only can we fulfill our own needs, but we can help the Boston community."