In May we attended the Collision Conference 2019 in Toronto. Now in its fifth year, Collision is the fastest growing tech conference in North America, and for the first time, in Toronto. Over 25,000 attendees from 125 countries, 730 speakers, and 1100 startups. I learned a lot. Now that the dust has settled, I distilled my previously posted top daily summaries (found in my LinkedIn account) down to the top-3 things learned each day.
Day 1
Snap (Snapchat): The community created 400,000 lenses which were used 15B times in the last ~8months. Their goal is to have the right lens available at the right time
Amazon – To get developers to join your company you have to demonstrate you have an “awesome idea”
“(it’s now) easier to broadcast, harder to get heard” – Dan Gardner
Day 2
Now coining the term “Virtual Talent” (under perpetual employment with you, but 100% remote) instead of “freelancers”. The Future of Work prezo by Taso Du Val @ Toptal
“We haven’t taught (citizens) how to learn new skills (to stay update in today’s employment climate).” – Daphne Koller @ Coursera
Darren Hendler of Digital Domain (they worked on latest Avenger’s movie) asked us to guess which of 6 people (shown) was not human, but CGI generated (hint: none). The Digital Human technology will soon allow a digital version of you to speak autonomously, using content you didn’t necessarily generate. The “you” speaking will appear 100% authentic. Imagine where this could lead…
Day 3
“The war for talent is over. Talent won”. – Sarah Nahm, CEO, Lever
“Invest in your (company’s) culture early” & “Culture is not won & done” – Max Mullen, Co-founder, Instacart
“70M US jobs to be impacted by AI by 2030” – Leagh Turner, President, Ceridian
“Ensure your people understand their impact (on the business)” – Leagh Turner, President, Ceridian (couldn’t not include this 4th item)
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About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted thousands Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
PHP developer for an established FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
We are growing. We’re building new products and have other new products in the pipeline including eventually migrating to a native cloud serverless solution. We need an additional Sr. PHP Developer (full-stack) to join our team to help us build and continue to grow.
Our goal is to find a self-starter, seasoned developer, with very good communications skills who can contribute to our best practices. Someone with a successful track record of developing and delivering scalable, responsive, secure, multi-tenant SaaS projects, both individually and as a team member (hint: showcase your past projects at the interview – bring them with you!).
Perks
Free financial advice and no fees on your investments – a benefit that will pay off for decades
Benefits and RSP matching start on day-one
Flex hours outside of core 10-3
Perkopolis subscription
… and more
Key Responsibilities The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
Full-stack development including research and analysis, requirements review and gathering, design, impact analysis, estimating, unit testing, internal documentation and maintenance
Planning out sprints while identifying and assisting in mitigating technical, schedule, and other project risks
Consuming APIs. API development (potentially if this is something that interests you)
Occasional Level-3 support, defect investigation and resolution
Integration with backend Financial Systems
Some of the Experiences & Background We’d Like to See All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
PHP experience – 5+ years
GUI – Expert level – Must have
.NET / C# – 3 years – Very nice to have
5+ years MySQL or MSSQL
CMS experience, preferably with WordPress
HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Restful APIs, Selenium
Strong in security for web applications
Git, or similar open source code control systems
Agile Scrum environment
Windows OS
Experience consuming third-party libraries, APIs and Web services
Proficiency with cross-browser/cross-platform issues
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
Nice to Have
Fintech experience
AngularJS or other JavaScript-based front-end web frameworks
AWS or Azure Cloud experience
Slack & Jira
Sharepoint and Sharepoint API
Devops experience
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must be able to travel intermittently to the United States
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Please include your resume.
About the Company
An established and growing FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
About the Job The purpose of this role and why this role exists.
We continue to grow and are adding a Visual Designer to our team. We’re searching for a self-starter who has a passion for visual brand development coupled with UX/UI design
You will be leading visual branding exercises (logo design, theme design, etc.) AND designing engaging user experiences for our client’s products
We need a client-facing professional who factors in the “big picture” view rather than work based on tickets. We need someone who brings highly creative ideas to visual design engagements with our clients and has a thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies
You will have the freedom to try new things, get creative, and leverage your highly effective, results-driven approach to visual branding, logo design, theme design, colour palette selection and UX/UI design
Perks Our work environment
Partial work from home
Flex hours
Casual, yet professional environment
Top Responsibilities The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
Own the UX design for every project assigned to you. New projects appear regularly
Interview clients and stakeholders during discovery sessions and extract their ideas and vision for visual branding, and web/mobile digital products to create the best user experience possible
Present digital creatives to client and iterate on them as feedback dictates
Create web/mobile style guides including but not limited to color palettes, typography, component (e.g. form elements) look & feel
Design wireframes, visual design, mockups, user workflows and experiences
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
5-years visual design experience
3-years relevant experience designing SaaS software applications (web and mobile)
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
Strong visual eye for typography and visual layout
Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision and/or other software that could be adopted into existing processes
Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (Visual design, UX design, psychology)
Connect with Us!
To learn more about the client, their culture and the opportunity, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: UX/Graphic Designer
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
Have you ever hired someone only to have them resign within 6 months, or 3 months, weeks, or perhaps even 1 day? When your new hire starts, their job search didn’t end. You likely don’t have an on-boarding plan, but but as you will see in this video, the new employee does and you may not like it..
In this first of two videos where I describe the importance of developing an on-boarding plan. Watch the second video here.
Kudos to Enable Education for their expertise in producing this on-boarding educational video. Enable Education makes the process very easy and expertly helped shape the narrative.
Darren Hendler of Digital Domain (they worked on latest Avenger’s movie) asked us to guess which of 6 people (shown) was not human, but CGI generated (hint: none). The Digital Human technology will soon allow a digital version of you to speak autonomously, using content you didn’t necessarily generate. The “you” speaking will appear 100% authentic. Imagine where this could lead…
now!
