When you make a $100,000 base salary offer to a local software developer, the figure doesn’t exactly tell the whole story – a reality many seasoned hiring managers might miss in their budget calculations. Direct Costs: More Than Just Salary In the USA or Canada, the financial commitment to employees goes beyond just the paycheque. […]
How Many IT Staffing Vendors Should a Company Work With?
Recruiting and managing software and IT staff through vendor partners is meant to bring relief from tedious pre-screening and hiring processes, but it can be a double-edged sword, if not done right. Companies tend to struggle with choosing the optimum number of staffing vendors they should have on the preferred vendor list. The standard dilemma: […]
One Way To Save Money On Software Engineering
Almost every week we are hearing of North American companies laying off Software Developers in an attempt to save on operating costs. Netflix, Coinbase, Robinhood, Snapchat and more have all shed engineering jobs. If the Canadian market is closer to your heart – Hootsuite, Unbounce, Thinkific and Shopify are among some of the biggest tech […]
Canadian Companies Need To Be Less Conservative When Hiring Remote Overseas Talent
One of the positive effects of the pandemic is just how much it accelerated the availability of remote work. Although Canadian companies are now building distributed teams, welcoming talent from across the country, the country is still lagging behind others like the US, UK, the Netherlands, and Singapore who have been benefiting from the cost […]