I advise candidates to use the STAR method when talking about their past achievements, so I’ll do the same. This case illustrates how we achieved another successful placement, even for hard, lead roles: Situation: A cybersecurity startup with an innovative…

We needed to fill a highly specialized role for a small Swiss legal tech startup, requiring a candidate skilled in both Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and Python programming. The challenge was finding someone who excelled in both academia and…

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…