Want a tech job in Israel? Call the ladies at RYB

Two West Hempstead natives who made aliyah have joined forces to found a technology recruiting company, run from their homes in Beit Shemesh, helping English speaking programmers and web designers find jobs with companies in Israel, the U.S. and throughout the world.

The company, RYB Technologies, provides outsourcing coverage for U.S. based companies and provides workers for Israeli companies that are based in Israel but are in the international marketplace. The company can place workers and assist companies in other areas of technology as well.

Mia Weiss and Miriam Schwartz made aliyah a few years ago with their families. Weiss had ties to AMIT and the Young Israel of West Hempstead and Schwartz was a teacher for many years at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County. Weiss was a pre-school teacher before being a stay-at home mom for ten years.

When the Weiss family home burnt down in January 2008 they saw it as a message from G-d, said Weiss. “It was time to make a big change in life,” she said. “Everyone was on board.” She currently has six children; her oldest finished SKA then studied in MMY, served in sherut leumi and is now a student at Bar Ilan.

Weiss explained that Schwartz saw the need for a technology recruitment company. Her husband was in technology and while working in Israel for a U.S. based company found he did not have time for the additional freelance work that was offered to him and offered to find someone else to do the job. He explained to his wife Miriam what questions to ask and advised her on how to do research to find the right candidate for the position. She placed two people, noted Weiss, “and that’s how it got started.”

They work from their own homes; Weiss in Sheinfeld, Schwartz in Ramat

Shilo. “Most of the work is done on the phone and the Internet,” explained Weiss. “We rarely need to meet clients face to face. If we do, we set up a meeting.” She said that neither of them has experience in technology but Schwartz’s husband is their advisor. “The premise,” said Weiss, “is that we help

companies across the world to find programmers and computer experts to fill their business needs.”

RYB Tech has been recruiting English-speaking tech workers since November 2010 and has placed 15 to date. Their clients are men and women from Haifa, Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Efrat, Modiin and Beit Shemesh. Their service benefits companies, helping them find highly trained, educated, skilled, low-cost English speaking tech support, and benefits Anglo’s looking for jobs, who may have difficulty finding work in Israel if they’ve come from the U.S. and have limited Hebrew.

One of the companies they work with, 3BASE, is a ground breaking operation founded by two men, a secular Israeli and a national religious Israeli, who saw a need to find employment and set up conditions suitable for Charedi women.

They currently employ 90 Charedi women and draw women from charedi communities in Israel to their base in Rosh HaAyin. Women who are graduated from the Bais Yaakov system with a degree in computers are tested to be sure that they meet the standards of 3BASE when they apply there. They work in an open space, meeting rooms have large glass windows for everyone to see and they work from 6:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. so they can return in time for their husbands to get to night seder.

Weiss emphasized that they are not aware of their clients’ religious leanings and, in spite of all the negative press in Beit Shemesh, things are quiet. “Since the whole hoopla, and I’m right up the block, it’s been quiet. People took a stand that this can’t continue.

They were a small group of people. They can’t behave this way; it’s not acceptable. There were protests and since then it’s been quiet. The girls have been able to go to school and there is no more of that activity.”

As far as their ties to West Hempstead, Weiss pointed out that, “I really truly feel that we are people’s home away from home. Many come to visit us and their kids come to visit us on their summer programs and their year in Israel.

More of them come all the time and we love it. It helps us feel connected to our old stomping ground. We miss everyone and love the community. We still feel connected. Just come, we’re waiting for everybody. If anyone is interested in Aliyah just give us a call.”

For more information visit: www.rybtech.com.