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Stafflink Advice for Newcomers to Canada – ITWorld Canada Interview

CN Tower Toronto Harbourfront

Tim Collins, CEO of Staffflink, was recently interviewed by Brain Bloom of ITWorld Canada in an article titled, Immigrant IT pros face tough slog in job market. The interview touches on the tough climate new immigrants face when it comes to landing their first job in Canada. While IT skills are generally universal, many new immigrants come to Canada unaware…

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Get Your Qualifications Assessed as a New Immigrant to Canada

World Education Services

Recently, Stafflink did an interview with ITWorld Canada on the struggles that many IT skilled immigrants face when coming to Canada. While IT skills are generally universal, meaning that having Oracle skills in Russia or India is the same as in Canada, Canadian experience can be a big barrier for people when trying to land their first job here. If…

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Nominate a TOtechninja

#totechninjas

As an IT staffing company in downtown Toronto, we at Stafflink have the pleasure of meeting many amazing people working in technology at awesome companies, everyday. We wanted a way to acknowledge the amazing tech talent and companies in the city. This is how our TOtechninjas blog project blossomed.

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TOtechninjas Top Tweets

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The winner of the #TOtechninjas contest has been announced, but the hashtag lives on, on our TOtechninjas blog where we feature the most tech savvy specialists in Toronto and the GTA. So far we have featured: Heather Payne of Ladies Learning Code Kunal Gupta of Polar Mobile Edward Yao of Team Buy Liam Kaufman of Understood It Ahmad Nassri of…

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Stafflink Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

Stafflink Team at the 10th Anniversary Party

  Last week on May 28th, Stafflink celebrated its 10 year anniversary at the St. Lawrence Market. We invited clients, job candidates, friends, family, business partners, and employees both past and present to show our appreciation to all the people that have helped Stafflink get to where it is today. We couldn’t have done it without all of you!

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Shoutout to Five of Toronto’s Fiercest #TOtechninjas

#totechninjas

We started the #TOtechninjas hashtag to give a shoutout to the fiercest, most-skillful and cutting edge techies in the Toronto GTA. TOtechninjas are people working in technology in the Greater Toronto Area. They are bringing us genius solutions, growing businesses and, best of all, many TOtechninjas are even creating cool job opportunities that allow other local TOtechninjas to show off…

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Create a Striking Online Resume with Vizualize.me

Example of a Visualize.me e-resume

Working at a staffing company, our IT recruiters receive hundreds of resumes a week. It takes a lot for a resume to really standout from the rest. We recently received a striking infographic resume from one of our candidates, and knowing how much it takes to capture our attention, let me tell you, we took notice; especially when we realized…

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Tech Jobs in High Demand

Tech Jobs in High Demand in Toronto

Working in IT recruiting, we get a first hand look at what the hot tech jobs are in Toronto and the GTA. At the moment, if you have the skill sets listed below, with relevant work experience, you are likely not going to have a problem getting hired. If you have the skills listed below, but you find that you aren’t…

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