Soft Skills That Can Get You Ahead in Your Next Job Search
Twenty years ago, working in IT meant being permanently shackled to your computer. While the spirit of that hasn’t changed over the years, shrinking development teams means knowledge workers are working in a variety of positions, doing things that they typically haven’t been comfortable with in the past. You could be a full-stack guru, a…
Read MoreWant to Join the Startup Craze? Get Familiar with DevOps
Sitting halfway between a good habit and a good business practices, any software engineer or systems admin exploring projects beyond the scale of a single developer have to start thinking about their methodologies. Development methodologies, like any good work habit, are only felt when they aren’t used. And being familiar with different dev methodologies helps…
Read MoreWhy Ruby On Rails Should be in Every Web Developer’s Toolkit
Ruby on Rails, better known as Rails within its community, is something of a dark horse in Web Development these days. While it’s become a show-stopping full-stack development platform, it’s attachment to the little understood and rare Ruby script has made it a rare skills among web developers. But if you’ve heard of Shopify, Airbnb,…
Read MoreThe iPhone 7 Announced – And Reactions Are Lukewarm
Apple’s biannual release of the iPhone — this year being the iPhone 7, started, rather tellingly, with a rather funny mistake on Apple’s part. Rather than rely on a network of millions of hungry tech bloggers, Apple unceremoniously leaked some of the main features of the iPhone 7 through promoted Twitter posts. In effect, they…
Read MoreNetworking for Business 102: Selling Your Skills, Following Up, and Getting those Contracts
Last week we discussed the social aspect of social networking: the act of presenting yourself as more than just the sum of your business or skillset. Charming prospects into trusting your character is where all business in a face-to-face environment begins. But how do you actually translate those social interactions into meaningful work down the…
Read MoreNetworking for Work 101: How To Win People, Charm Prospects, and Build Your Network
If you’ve ever been to an industry mixer event, you probably have a bad impression of networking. Either you believe networking is full of dead ends (and they are), or you struggle to really sell your personality and your work to prospects — connecting with the unfamiliar can be daunting and quite difficult. This is…
Read MoreHow Employers Can Reach Out to Millennials And Start Recruiting Them
Not since Generation X has modern media been so fixated with an age demographic. Bloggers and journalists treat the Millennial generation as something halfway between mystery and suspicion. Employers, marketers, and brand specialists swap almost-myths and hearsay of how to capture the elusive Millennial, swapping tactics like tackleboxes. Employers need to change their messaging going…
Read More3 Quick Tips to Market Yourself Better to Employers
The tech industry, especially in an industry like Toronto’s, tend to produce very different experiences for different people. It’s an industry that tends to be in very high demand, but not always consistently across different positions and types of development work. This can lead to fairly sizable portion of tech workers being told that the…
Read MoreTechWeek Toronto Will Highlight Up and Coming Talent in the GTA
For the first time in the city’s history, TechWeek is coming to Toronto, and will run July 25th to the 29th across the lower downtown area. Hosted coast-to-coast across the United States for the last five years, 2016 represents a watershed moment for Canada’s up-and-coming tech nexus in a week of innovation, collaboration, and networking…
Read More5 Reasons why Toronto is Well Positioned for Tech Booms
If you work in IT in any capacity, a coworker or a friend has undoubtedly tried to lure you into moving out West. Whether to Vancouver, Seattle, or San Francisco, you’ve probably had your ear talked off about the salary differences, the benefits, and just how beautiful and relaxing the West Coast is. Toronto doesn’t…
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