Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
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Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
In April I'm taking a trip out to Alberta to see family for about a week from the UK. During my time here, I'm planning on spending a few days in Calgary (also thinking Edmonton for a day) hunting down software recruiting agencies and going in with a resume to talk about possible options my skills may have on the current job market. Most of my experience with recruiting agencies is in the UK and they can range from amazing (the exception) to outright lies about certain aspects of the job/company (fairly common).
Does anyone on this board have a good recruiting company they'd recommend I check out? If it helps, I'm primarily a .Net Developer currently working for a bank for the last few years, but I'm not set on working in the finance industry when I'm out.
Any help / advice on this would be appreciated.
Does anyone on this board have a good recruiting company they'd recommend I check out? If it helps, I'm primarily a .Net Developer currently working for a bank for the last few years, but I'm not set on working in the finance industry when I'm out.
Any help / advice on this would be appreciated.
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Re: Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
In April I'm taking a trip out to Alberta to see family for about a week from the UK. During my time here, I'm planning on spending a few days in Calgary (also thinking Edmonton for a day) hunting down software recruiting agencies and going in with a resume to talk about possible options my skills may have on the current job market. Most of my experience with recruiting agencies is in the UK and they can range from amazing (the exception) to outright lies about certain aspects of the job/company (fairly common).
Does anyone on this board have a good recruiting company they'd recommend I check out? If it helps, I'm primarily a .Net Developer currently working for a bank for the last few years, but I'm not set on working in the finance industry when I'm out.
Any help / advice on this would be appreciated.
Does anyone on this board have a good recruiting company they'd recommend I check out? If it helps, I'm primarily a .Net Developer currently working for a bank for the last few years, but I'm not set on working in the finance industry when I'm out.
Any help / advice on this would be appreciated.
If you can, try and restrain the pimp from blitzing your resume. A common move is, you give the resume to the pimp, the pimp sends it to all the companies in Canada. You then find employment through another agency or directly. The pimp arrives wanting a commission, IME the employer just fires the person with the disputed fees and gets another.
Good luck, computing is a sleazy business.
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Location: SW Calgary
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Re: Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
Do you have a visa, work permit, or otherwise, that would allow you to work here legally?
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Re: Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
Best way to get a job in Canada is networking and Linkedin is a great tool to use. There will be more job opportunities in Toronto than Alberta for software developers in finance. If you could get Salesforce experience, you would have an excellent chance of finding something here in Canada. P.s. I work in IT for a financial organisation.
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Re: Software Engineer Recruiters / Locations
Ottawa is your place for tech.