Tiago: All right. I’m Tiago. I’m 35 years old right now, and I’ve been working as a data engineer for the past, I don’t know, four years. Before that, I was a back-end engineer. Tiago: Actually, I wasn’t actually looking. This recruiter, George, he gave me a call one day and he just thought that…
Nishutosh: My name is Nishutosh, I’m from India. I’ve been working as a software engineer since 2012, that is almost eight years now. And I have been looking for change in Canada. I was looking to work for a company in Canada, VanHack is the one that got me placed there. So really thankful to…
Carlos Torres: I’m Carlos an Android developer. I am from Columbia. I have almost six years of experience as a developer, well four years of experience as an Android developer. Yeah, that’s it. Carlos Torres: I’ve always been searching for new opportunities. And I think my next step was relocating and going abroad and try…
It’s time to get back on track and revamp your plans and improve yourself on your journey to the dream job abroad. VanHackCON 2020 brought all the tools needed to keep you on track. VanHackCON had a lot of fun hosting the webinars, and we hope you got some great information to keep you on…
You’re looking to hire a senior developer (or, maybe more likely, a whole team of developers) for your fast-growing tech company. Fantastic — that’s why you chose VanHack. But maybe you run a startup or are just getting to a size where it seems hard to manage all of your tech talent. This is not…
Hi everyone! Welcome to another VH podcast episode. Today we’re going to discuss the 5 biggest mistakes on your international profile and some tips to help you. First, let me introduce myself. I’m Camila Ferreira – Premium Community Manager at VanHack – and I invited Marina to discuss this topic. She’s a Success Specialist at…
At VanHack, we’re constantly striving for a better experience for our users. We recently launched a feature that lets companies schedule interviews with candidates right from our platform. We integrate with your calendar, send out auto meeting invites, the whole nine yards. You can read all about that here – Interview Scheduling on VanHack This…
Based in Newfoundland, Canada, HeyOrca started out in 2015. As with all good inception stories, the company came into being when the founders were struggling to solve a problem for themselves. Joe Teo and Sahand Seifi met in University where they started a small agency helping manage social media campaigns for multiple clients. When they…
Stephen is a fullstack software engineer from England. He has 15 years of experience and he got a job in Canada through VanHack. In this VanHack Podcast episode, we talked to him about his experience, his job search process and how everything happened for him. Stephen also shares valuable tips and insights for VanHackers who…
2020 got us all by surprise driving us to rethink, reinvent, and rebuild ourselves. Many of our dreams had to be postponed. This doesn’t mean we’ll abandon them though. So, now it’s time to get back on track! To help you revamp your plans and improve yourself on your journey to the dream job abroad,…
We are STOKED to announce that the Vanhack Slack App just went live on ProductHunt! With VanHack’s Slack App you can Quickly and easily search our database of 177,000+ developers Get direct links to candidate profiles Schedule interviews in minutes Empower your whole team – allow anyone to search for the right candidate Here’s a…
VanHack places No.39 out of 400 on The Globe and Mail’s second-annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies with 3-year revenue growth of 1,314%! It’s so exciting to see our name up on this list. When we started out in 2015 (feels like a lifetime ago!), we knew we had a great idea – but…
Hey, there! Welcome to another episode of the VanHack Podcast! It’s Aline here, from VanHack Premium, where I am responsible for the Technical Interviews Practice, and I’ll be your host today. So, let’s start a new series here, which I just decided I’ll call “Interview Hack”, and in this first episode let’s talk about Technical…
The VanHack Virtual Hiring Fair for Women is less than a month away! We’ve had hundreds of fantastic candidates apply for the event, and we’re going to highlight five developers a week. This week, we’re looking at five fantastic Javascript developers. Aline B Aline has worked as a front-end developer since 2010. She has more…
Global Mobility | Getting a new job in a foriegn country is a fantastic feeling. It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work and brings with it the promise of a new life. We’ve helped over 1000 VanHackers get jobs abroad, and we’re still thrilled everytime someone gets hired through us. However, we also…
If you are serious about your job search, you are probably applying for jobs at VanHack, LinkedIn, other job boards, groups, and so on. But how do you keep track of how each application is going if they are not at the same place? Perhaps you’re using a spreadsheet, or simply writing things down. And…
If you have hired remote workers (or are considering it), you’re bound to have run into the question of paying them. Many companies in Canada and Europe are realizing that paying employees in other countries isn’t necessarily as easy as it seems at first glance. You need to think about taxation, compliance, and a whole…
This blog post is very special for VanHack. Our colleague Juliana’s Story recently switched careers within VanHack. She went from a customer success role to joining the VanHack tech team as a front-end developer. Juliana’s Story has no prior experience as a developer. She didn’t have a formal degree in software engineering or a related…
You may be an ultra-focused entrepreneur who has struck a winning startup idea, but you probably don’t have a broad enough skill set to cover all scenarios. In today’s increasingly tech-driven business world, having a robust developer team is critical. This is particularly true if you lack the programming capabilities or have sufficient time…
I make a few assumptions with this article; that you are already sold on the idea of The Lean Startup; that you believe in building The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as a way of bringing products (or major features) to the market, and maybe you have even read the book The Lean Startup by Eric…
