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July 20, 2026
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Forward deploy engineers, senior-heavy teams, and the junior math nobody’s run yet I talk to founders and technical leaders across our client base every week, and right now they are running two completely different playbooks. Some are just getting started with AI. Others have already cut their engineering teams down while getting more output than before, some as much as …
March 9, 2022
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Photo by Pixabay Written by guest blogger Amber Ramsey Small businesses often operate on razor-thin margins, and the pandemic has made that dynamic even more challenging. Of course, staying competitive is what will keep you afloat, so it’s wise to think about what advantages you can give yourself to ensure you weather the storm. Some biz-boosters can be DIY, while …
October 2, 2020
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Step 1: KYC! The first step to becoming a good recruiter is knowing your customer! You can’t find a person if you don’t know what type of person you’re looking for. Learn about the company, culture, technologies, processes and methodologies, find out how often they release code and what their deployments look like, how big their teams are, room for …
January 31, 2020
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I’ve been a recruiter for 10 years in the emerging technology space. That means I place software engineers and engineering leaders across Canada. We work with our clients on an exclusive basis and one of the first questions our clients ask is why they should work with only one recruiter. My answer is simple: you get my full attention and …