The VanHack ATS is launching in early 2021. You can sign up here to get early access! We knew nothing about recruiting when we started VanHack in 2015. In fact, we became a recruiting company by accident. The original idea, and still the core, of VanHack was our soft skills school for tech talent. We …
Did you know that Amazon, Google, Square, Microsoft, Grammarly, Coursera, and Brex have Canadian Engineering offices? It’s true, many fast growing tech companies are setting up a remote Engineer office Canada. Why, you may ask? Well, mostly to expand their talent pool, hire faster and retain talent for longer all while expanding runway by leveraging …
This snapshot from Google Trends tells you all that you need to know – the whole world is rapidly trying to figure out how to Work from Home! VanHack has been a remote-only organization for the past five years, so we’ve already figured a lot of this out. We have 50+ employees across 10+ countries, …
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Today’s post is about Luis Câmara’s journey to achieve his dream job in Canada. He wrote the story below. Check out how it happened. —- I joined VanHack to search for jobs in Canada last year. Since then I saw value in being a Premium member especially because I needed to update my resume and …
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VanHack Leap is an in-person event held across cities in Canada and Europe where companies looking to hire senior tech talent can meet 30-50 top developers – who’ve flown in from all over the world – interview them, and hire them! If you’d like to skip to the good part and just sign up to …
Don’t you wish you could take searching for a candidate from O(n^2) and convert that to O(log n)? (Yeah, I’d like to see O(n) as well, but that’s a bit much to ask for…) We’ve all been there. Hiring the right person is sometimes as much an art as it is a science, and trying …
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In the spirit of “show, don’t tell”, here’s a video testimonial. And if you prefer to get your information via the written word, we have the transcript right below the video. Hi, I’m Alex. I’m from Vietnam. I’m a front-end developer with four years of experience and I have been working with React/Redux and …
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A few weeks ago, we published a blog about VanHacker Evandro Rodrigues, and how he got hired in Canada through VanHack Premium. Just like that post, today’s post is written by Flávio Gomes – another VanHacker who attributes his success with getting a job to VanHack Premium. The text below has been very lightly edited – …
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Update: We’re hosting a live webinar on Remote Hiring. VanHack CEO Ilya Brotzky will share best practices and answer your questions on April 7, 2 PM Eastern Time. Click here to register! At VanHack, we’ve spent the last 5 years working hard to bring tech talent to new countries and have helped more than 800 …
VanHack is all about community. We believe that success is a result of joint efforts, and lending each other a helping hand. If you’re reading this, you’re already part of the VanHack family and you know that we really do mean what we say about helping each other out. You probably have many friends that …
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We often publish success stories on our blog. You’ve probably assumed that we get these by the usual method of interviewing our successful candidates and posting their stories on our blog. However, that’s not necessarily true. VanHack’s biggest asset is our community – we have more than 100,000 members, and a lot of them hang …
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a tech startup with two co-founders and a pug, or an enterprise with 10,000 cubicles. If you’re looking to grow, I bet hiring is your biggest challenge. And if your chosen solution is hiring tech talent from abroad, it can seem confusing. Why is this challenge affecting so many Canadian …
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So, you’re looking for a tech job. Let’s say you’re one of over 200,000 VanHackers from 150+ countries. You find your dream job. It’s your destiny. Well, maybe. Only if you don’t make one of the top job interview mistakes! It can happen to any of us. But, it is our job to match a …
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Kudos hired two senior developers for their Canadian tech company. How did VanHack help? VanHack CEO Ilya Brotzky had a chat with Ahmed, Director of Technology from Kudos in Calgary, Alberta, about how it happened. Check out the full conversation in the video, or read the highlights below! Ilya. Thanks so much for taking some time to join …
For many Canadian companies, hiring international tech talent might seem slow. But it doesn’t have to be! Speed up the process with an Unnamed LMIA. Get started on that paperwork even before you’ve identified a Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW). Get a head start and hire faster! How does the Unnamed LMIA work? What your company needs …
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