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Hi! It’s #vsrativakansii again. Summer selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today we’ll talk about offices, AI vacancies, cheap developers, HR for online fans and interrogation before an interview.

Ukrainian IT professionals are creating a job search platform called Matchsy, which is changing the approach to recruiting. In six weeks, the startups have formed a community of almost 2,000 subscribers, recorded almost 1,000 applications for the whitelist, and the platform threatens to become a full-fledged competitor to jobs.dou and Djinni. How the experts came to the idea of ​​developing a startup, what innovative things they offer, how they lost a developer, thanks to which they found a new one in a few hours, and what they can offer candidates now, was told to dev.ua by the co-founder and CEO of Matchsy, IT entrepreneur, experienced startup marketer, and Dnipro resident Oleksandr Burlachenko.

It seems to me that one of the key skills of a businessman is the ability to change "hats" depending on the circumstances and situations he works in. I will give an example, of course, from my own experience.

FrontEnd developer Denys Tkachenko recently received unexpected feedback on a test assignment that was hotly discussed on LinkedIn. It turned out that a test that was done too well can make an employer doubt whether it was really done by a human, and not by an AI.

I recently came across some interesting Upwork 2024 analytics and decided to share my observations. The study analyzed over 5 million projects posted on Upwork to identify current market trends, find out which projects offer the highest pay, and which niches are the easiest to fill. If you already have an agency on Upwork or are thinking about starting one, this guide might be helpful on your journey.

CEO of HR agency HR-Lab Yulia Pashchenko shared the story of hiring a specialist who refused to work on a schedule with two days off, demanding a third.

SEO expert Igor Shulezhko told a story about how an American company fired all Ukrainian developers and replaced them with Indians. This information interested the community: a discussion with 270+ commenters.

During his IT career, Mark Quinn went from being approached by Waymo, Apple, and Amazon with job offers to being unemployed and unable to attract the attention of any company. The IT guy lost his previous job to AI. At the same time, the technology helped him find a new job. Mark now holds a position in AI operations at Pearl, an AI search platform for professional services.

A former Google marketer is trying to find a new job in a world swept by AI, and he’s decided to get creative. He’s distributing homemade flyers offering $2,000 to anyone who can help him land a job.

Ukrainian IT professionals often refuse to cooperate with companies that require full presence in the office or a hybrid work format. It is understandable — during the war and Covid, the habit of working from home, without wasting time on the road, has become a familiar part of life. And today’s sleepless attacks due to enemy attacks and the possibility of being forcibly conscripted into the army at any moment while traveling to work do not contribute to specialists returning to the offices. Meanwhile, international tech giants have long been restoring the practice of working from offices, and those who do not agree to work away from home are simply fired. dev.ua asked top Ukrainian IT employers whether they require the presence of specialists in the office and in what format they currently offer cooperation to new employees.

Senior SEO Specialist Oleksandr Nebylytsia on LinkedIn wondered whether it is really necessary to gather the team at meetings every day.

On the website robota.ua, the web design agency Davydov Consulting opened a number of IT vacancies with a maximum salary of UAH 18,000 a few days ago.