11.  Take a few months and get some skills retraining to qualify for a current hot job.

12.  The best and brightest are just about writing their own tickets in the hot jobs.

13.  The hot job market is forcing companies to offer increasingly high salaries to lock in top candidates and prevent them from shopping around their offer.

14.  With the hot job market in the Bay Area, lab technicians and technologists are finding better salaries in biotech and university settings.