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HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO A quick recap of 2020 All the grand hiring plansmade by our clients for 2020 had to be temporarily put on hold around Feb 2020 as COVID began to evolve from a distant news item into a pandemic. This slowdown in tech hiring was (thankfully) quite short-lived. The companies that were the quickest to resume
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Today we are grateful to be talking to the Deputy Chief Product Officer of PwC’s Digital Products Group. Sarah Johnson comes from a unique background. She used to be the Operations Manager for the Polar Challenge / South Pole Race and spent 3 months in Antarctica for this. After a few more roles in technology, she is now the Deputy
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HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO General State of Hiring In general, tech recruitment activity has continued to remain brisk despite most other sectors experiencing a downturn because of the macroeconomic climate. We continued to see contracting opportunities on the rise but towards the end of the quarter, a substantial number of permanent roles started to open up
READ MORE There has been so much talk about Virtual Banks in the past few months. Some newspapers have reported that this could be a big threat to traditional retail banks. But, what exactly is a Virtual Bank and what can we expect from them over the next couple of years? On the podcast today, we are really privileged to have Andrew
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO General State of Hiring Technology is considered to be of core importance to most companies. Despite other areas of recruitment suffering because of the macroeconomic slowdown, hiring with technology has still very much continued to happen, albeit at a reduced rate Permanent placements: This is where we saw the slowdown. Given the
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO General State of Hiring First, it was the protests and now it’s the virus that’s dominating the news! We usually get this question: how is the virus affecting our segment of the market, i.e., Technology Recruitment? This is what we have been observing: During Q1 2020, technology hiring was
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO General State of Hiring We usually get this question: are the ongoing protests affecting business? Yes, but fortunately, the impact on our business has been minimal We haven’t seen much slowdown in technology hiring. In fact, our clients have been hiring quite actively and even growing headcount numbers during these
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO A lot has been happening in Hong Kong this past quarter. Here is an update on tech hiring: General State of Hiring Being in the Recruitment space, one question we continue to receive is whether companies are still hiring in Hong Kong given our political situation at the moment. This
READ MORE HOME CAREER TIPS MARKET INFO Buy Side / Investment Banking Technology Sector Hiring at Investment Banks was quite strong to begin with but seemed to lose some steam later on due to the uncertain economic climate. We are noticing approvals taking longer than usual to obtain even though hiring continues to happen. Having said that
READ MORE In our line of work, especially since 2018, we came across various roles for DevOps Engineers or Site Reliability Engineers (as Google calls them). Today on the podcast we are thankful for having Suresh, Principal Engineer of TaUB Solutions, a management consultancy firm specializing in advising clients on DevOps practices, Agile Project Management and other areas. He is a Certified
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Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC
Samson Chan - Managing Director
Barclays, Equities Technology APAC