In today’s VanHack success story, we are thrilled to introduce Elizabeth, a talented data engineer from Mexico who recently achieved her dream of working internationally. Elizabeth’s journey serves as an inspiration to all VanHackers who are seeking to expand their horizons and pursue opportunities beyond their home country. Elizabeth’s Background Elizabeth was born in Mexico…
In today’s competitive job market, recruiters are flooded with numerous resumes for each open position. During the masterclass “5 Pitfalls That Can Hold You Back”, Cecilia Bydlowski, Profile Expert at VH Academy mentioned recruiters spend about 6 seconds skimming through a resume during the initial review. As a tech talent job seeker, this information might seem…
Interview preparation can be a daunting task, especially for software developers. The ever-evolving landscape of technology and the increasing competition in the job market make it crucial to be well-prepared. In this blog post, we will explore how you can leverage ChatGPT, an AI-powered tool, to enhance your interview preparation as a software developer. By…
Behavioral interviews can be a challenging experience. In a behavioral interview, the interviewer asks questions that aim to uncover the candidate’s past behavior in specific situations. The goal is to assess the candidate’s abilities, skills, and competencies and determine whether they are a good fit for the role and the company culture. Some of the…
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has transformed how people work and businesses operate across different projects. Al has already started growing more intuitive for the recruitment market, consequently benefiting companies and candidates in different hiring stages. At VanHack, we are proud to say we have implemented the AI English Verification to improve the…
GitHub is one of the profiles that companies and recruiters always check to make sure candidates applying for a job have further projects outside their work experience or not. Murilo Marques, software engineer, and VanHack’s Premium Academy instructor, recently conducted a fantastic open masterclass detailing how tech professionals can create a great profile on GitHub….
Tam Kbeili describes himself as “part entrepreneur, part programmer.” He is a CTO at Aplicar and joined VanHackCON 2021 to talk about two interesting and relatively new coding languages, Phoenix and Elixir. Kbeili used these languages to build products for his companies Aplicar and CodeCast, which means he has lots of experience. Let’s learn from him! 🚀…
Ana Tavares is a psychologist and recruiter with 12 years of experience finding great employees for tech companies. She shared some of the most common job interview questions HR asks candidates in a fantastic talk at VanHackCON 2021. Most of the time, there are no formulas and no one size fits all approach, but Tavares…
If you are a tech talent with at least four years of experience you must have been through some job interviews. Maybe you are even kind of used to how they work and that’s great. However, assuming international hiring processes are just the same as the ones in your home country may cost you some…
If Toronto is the first place that comes to mind when you think about working in Canada, you may be missing out on opportunities, amazing quality of life, and affordable cost of living that other Canadian cities have to offer. Case in point: Calgary. The capital of the province of Alberta has a strong tech…
After working so hard on completing your profile, applying for opportunities and preparing for interviews, we know you want to watch how your hiring processes are moving forward. That’s why we are happy to introduce to you our new My Jobs option on our platform. Right there on the main menu, the new feature provides…
