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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

This has shown that the state of hiring within the Canadian tech industry in current cities and emerging cities are growing. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. The British Columbia Tech Industry.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

with full benefits and an average starting salary of $55,000 or more. Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified.

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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Sure, they may hand out a few training booklets and introduce new hires to the team, but successful onboarding goes much deeper than that. When organizations fail to implement such a strategy, new hires slip through the cracks. These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Align all the Departments.

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers. How to hire technology superstars? English skills.