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Product Manager from Lviv, Oleksiy Rubanyak, went through 52 interviews with recruiters and finally received an offer. The specialist shared detailed job search statistics and interesting details on the path to work on LinkedIn and is now ready to help anyone who wants to in their search.

Changing jobs — a necessity or a challenge? How often should IT professionals change roles in a company or even an employer? In today’s realities, this issue is complicated, since the market has fallen, and whether it will recover to the level of pre-Covid times is unknown. However, updating a workplace can be both a springboard and a stupor for a specialist — it all depends on the conditions, willingness to take risks, engage in new processes, etc. dev.ua asked hiring specialists how often IT professionals should change jobs, and whether recruiters distrust or suspect a candidate who has stayed in one place and position for too long.

Is a working mother of a baby nonsense, and maternity leave a red flag for the employer? These stereotypes are a thing of the past, and modern mothers have learned to combine work with motherhood, and employers are more loyal to women who, despite having a child, decide to keep their jobs. dev.ua has collected stories of professionals from Ukrainian IT companies who successfully combine raising children with work. They shared their life hacks for those women who are planning to give birth and at the same time do not want to take a break in their careers.

Meta has internal blacklists of employees who are ineligible for reemployment. Former company managers say it is almost impossible to get off the list and an employee might end up there simply because their boss didn't like them.

The number of job openings for software engineers on Indeed has dropped by more than a third compared to five years ago. Artificial intelligence is certainly one reason. The same technology that can make programmers more productive seems to be reducing the demand for hiring. At the same time, the demand for skilled technical workers is expected to increase significantly by 2033.

Software & QA Engineer from Lviv, Dimitriy Wildstein, published an instruction in which a Reddit user shares life hacks that helped him get an offer from global tech corporations.

Python Engineer Oleksiy Diryavskyy shared on LinkedIn that he changed his approach to work — now he works mostly standing. But over time, even that became inefficient, so he asked his colleagues what approaches to work they use to keep their physical condition intact and their productivity high.

UI/UX Designer Victoria Boyarchuk shared her experience of finding a customer on Upwork and volunteering to work for a small fee without assessing the scale of the work.

Artem Nikityuk, Talent Acquisition Lead at consulting and auditing company Deloitte, shared a screenshot of a correspondence with a candidate who responded to a vacancy. The applicant’s response was in a somewhat unusual manner and Artem asked how other colleagues and experts felt about this. Which IT professionals shared their impressions and were any of them outraged or surprised?

Jade Bonacolta started her career at LinkedIn and earned five promotions in 6.5 years at the company thanks to her three-step strategy for preparing for management meetings. She now leads North American marketing at Google.

On Djinni, 32% of job seekers are women, the same number of hired female IT professionals. In technical specialties, the share of women decreases with increasing category and experience, while the number of female junis has increased.

I often say that people are the most important thing. Because in fact, if you take almost any «smart» company that provides services, what would it be without people? Brand, website, portfolio. Therefore, finding, selecting, training, and developing a team is one of the main tasks of a manager, not only at the beginning of a business, but throughout its life. And if we add to this the world of crises, changes, and competition in which we exist, then even technology and resources do not exceed the importance of the team. So, how do you turn a group of professionals into a true single organism capable of overcoming the most difficult challenges?

HR and People partner Anastasia Nakonechna is sure that we need to keep up with the changing world, and with it the rapid changes in processes and the team. She admitted that it is business literature that is difficult for her to constantly stay in focus. Therefore, the specialist is constantly looking for alternative sources of information. She shared a selection of resources that help her not to get lost in this HR-management chaos, and will be useful to other managers, leaders or HR people.