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When there is big money involved and little chance of getting caught, people do immoral things. As a recruiter, you are often faced with such a dilemma. In over five years in this business, I wasn’t honest or ethical all…

Taken from mixpanel In my day job in technical recruitment I talk to dozens of tech firms and hundreds of software engineers every week. Some developers think the web domain is crowded with too many developers and that salaries will go…

Recruiting is messier than you think. I tell three stories where great engineers were rejected for reasons that had nothing to do with their engineering performance or cultural-fit. Read this story with nicer formatting on medium.com. I run a technical recruitment…

When I came to Zurich in 2014 to work as a Python and Javascript developer I believed to only stay 2–3 years maximum and then leave to the US. After I wrote “Nine reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in…

Houses are bad investments due to foreign millionaires inflating real-estate for the rest of us. Stocks are better: There is zero tax on capital gain and an interesting estate tax treaty with the US, so one can buy cheap ETFs.…

I suggest “compassion” and recurse.com’s “Social User’s Manual” as a viable alternative to rigid “code of conducts”. “Modern” code of conducts (CoCs) are based on so called “speech codes” at Stanford ~30 years ago. These set of rules (CoCs or…

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This article is still in a draft state and I am working on it. In the whole talent industry there is a notorious lack of standards. Although in Europe there are some standards for resumes (one of those is the Europass). Those are…

Unique bodyleasing offer If you are interviewing an engineer that you would like to hire but can’t because he does not have a EU-passport, read on. The Swiss labour law divides workers in two categories: Workers with Swiss or EU…

In the last weeks I used almost every waking hour to find the best suited applicant tracking system for our little recruiting agency. This comparison is for other agencies who look for software supporting their workflow. The market for ATS software is very fragmented,…