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Anastasia Zherebetskaya, Senior HR Recruiter, believes that it is test tasks that can be the key to new opportunities for candidates in their job search. That is why the specialist advises to complete them and even gives relevant arguments why it is important. But what do IT professionals say about this?

The IT market is growing every day, and with it, so is the competition. Companies are finding it more difficult to find talent that fits their business strategy. They are asking: what kind of specialists do we need? Who should we look for — narrow experts or universal specialists? The answer lies in the combination of both qualities: it is the balance that allows us to achieve key OKRs and KPIs. These professionals are called T-shaped specialists, and their ability to adapt to change makes them indispensable in solving complex tasks. In this article, I would like to share my insights into why T-shaped specialists are the optimal model for working in an IT company.

Senior Recruiter Natalia Shelepko asked the community what drives IT professionals crazy during interviews with recruiters and tech interviews. Here are the 10 most popular triggers.

Part of Linkedin is ablaze with comments from outraged IT professionals who say they are not receiving responses to their submitted resumes and assume that recruiters are probably not even reading their documents. dev.ua decided to leave the ethical issue of correspondence without answers alone for now, but was interested in how resume selection can take place, whether recruiters use automated systems and AI in this process, and how ranking occurs in this case. We asked these questions to recruitment specialists. What we managed to find out will be useful for both recruiters and candidates.

Project management is a special field of activity characterized by a high level of uncertainty. A project manager always accepts this uncertainty as a given and skillfully (or ineptly) works with it, turning challenges into opportunities. Often in business units there is a temptation to appoint one of the employees as project owner, but this step does not always lead to success. Why is this happening?

While actively searching for a job as a UI/UX designer, Olena Kovalenko noticed that about 50% of vacancies involved working with time trackers. The designer asked the community if they supported this approach. Here’s how the responses were distributed.

Global tech giants are cutting back on inefficient employees. Microsoft is planning to cut jobs soon, with a special focus on underperforming employees. To do this, the company’s managers have been evaluating employees up to level 80, one of the highest levels, for several months. And Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to raise the bar in performance management and quickly fire about 3,600 underperforming employees. Ukrainian companies, when reducing staff, cite other reasons for layoffs. In particular, it is about optimizing the organizational structure and reducing costs. dev.ua decided to find out how Ukrainian IT evaluates the productivity of specialists and what influences this indicator. Below are interesting facts from EPAM, Ciklum and ZONE3000, as well as Railsware and P2H.

Typically, to assess the level of knowledge and skills, developers are given a test task at one of the interview stages — to write code. However, sometimes a conversation with a technical expert is enough. How «just from words» can determine your strengths and weaknesses in working with code — find out in the article.

Creative Project Manager Oleksandra Pushkareva shared a story from her own experience, which she called the «worst interview» of her career in marketing. We tell you what happened and how IT professionals are reacting to it. (The news is supplemented with the reaction of the employer’s representative who communicated with the candidate).

Human Resources Director Oleksandra Kravetska, who works at Holding House, a company specializing in the development of AdTech products, told how during an interview a candidate asked her if he could smoke. And although the girl answered in the affirmative, she got into the question of whether this situation is normal or is it still a red flag for recruiters. And what do other experts think?