General 15 Jun, 2020 How to write a developer CV that recruiters love What should every developer CV include and more importantly,… Read more
Career development 12 Nov, 2019 What developers can ask for in a job interview Developers have become the most in-demand Talents in recent years, which puts a skilled developer in an advantageous position during the interview and hiring process. Read what you can ask the next time you go to a job interview. Read more
Salary 07 Jan, 2019 How to Get a Raise (in any business) Earning more is an incentive to you to stay put and not to take your know-how elsewhere, but most companies will not take the initiative to raise your salary. You have to do it yourself. So how can you help yourself to get a raise? Read more
Software industry 15 Feb, 2019 Trust & Tech – a German Perspective on working in Finland A young man moves to Finland from Nürnberg, Bavaria, falls in love with frontend technologies and becomes fond with the trust-based working culture. The young man's name is Mathias Kern and he now works at Reaktor, and here he shares his thoughts about the differences between the German and Finnish working cultures. Read more
Freelance consulting 28 Nov, 2018 Why become a freelancer? What are the main differences between working as a freelancer and employee, and why now is a great time for an experienced developer to become a freelancer? Read more
Career development 05 Oct, 2018 Talent Story – Antti-Jussi Kovalainen, Frontend Developer & Designer AJ is a frontend developer, designer and a digital nomad! Mr. Worldwide's perfect match found from UpCloud, which is a remote work friendly and laid-back company as well as one of the world's fastest cloud providers. Read more
Career development 11 Sep, 2018 Talent Story – Niklas Eriksson, Senior Consultant Niklas is a software developer who was hoping to land a job that gets him working with JavaScript. The wish came true and he now works at Houston Inc., an agile software company, with ~80 easygoing Houstonians. Read more
General 03 Sep, 2018 First Talented Advisory Board Meeting The first ever board meeting focused on the current status of Talented as well as how to improve a) the Talent experience in onboarding and b) the Talented community. Read more
Career development 29 Jun, 2018 Talent Story – Jaakko Pallari, DevOps Consultant Jaakko is a software developer turned DevOps consultant whose fav programming language is Kotlin. After having worked at Cake Solutions for almost 3 years in Manchester, he’s now back in Finland and already in new boots at Polar Squad. Read more
Career development 15 May, 2018 Talent Story – Martin Varela, Senior Software Engineer Martin is a Senior Software Engineer who got in touch with Talented in order to make a career change. He was looking for something that was not just straight up development work but had a more science side to it, and he shortly found his match. Read more
Events 03 Apr, 2018 Hackeress x Talented – The Power of Feedback Talented and Hackeress organized a (tech) women-only event called The Power of Feedback on March 28th to discuss the importance of feedback and how and what kind of feedback can be given on someone's code and design. Here you can read more about the event and Hackeress, a community of female hackers. Read more
Career development 22 Mar, 2018 Talent Story – Esa Tiusanen, Consultant Esa is a digital marketing, SEM, SEO, and analytics pro who works as a consultant at Columbia Road. Despite his non-developer profile, we were luckily able to help this talented (pun unintended) guy with a wide grin out! Read more