8 Things you need to think about before hiring internationally
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Expanding your team into new markets means adding people on the ground with the right mix of experience and knowledge. But hiring the right people where you need them comes with its own set of challenges — from complying with local employment laws to implementing international payroll and benefits.
12 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups Kitematic (formerly local startup Kite) announced Thursday that it has been acquired by Docker. Kitematic automates the typically manual effort of deploying and managing Docker environments, an open platform… Read more 11 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Tech About Town Bill MacTavish is now a seasoned entrepreneur with years of experience learning at his own pace in the hospitality field. His journey has led him to save two downtown Kitchener hotspots — Imbibe and The… Read more 11 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups The two-woman team at DraftingSPACE, a company specializing in renovation design software out of the University of Waterloo Velocity Garage, has taken part in the Blackbox Connect program. They spent two… Read more 11 March 2015 | By Angela Larraguibel in: Announcements, Startups Azure Websites Lunch and Learn to teach people that their platform is a lot more than just hosting. They have many different ways to deploy, manage & scale .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python and Java websites… Read more 06 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups Bridgit is the number one construction workforce intelligence solution. Lauren Hasegawa talks about her path to creating her business and how she has innovated the construction workflow and management… Read more 06 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups On Friday, Google’s Waterloo Region office, above the Communitech Hub, hosted the incoming and outgoing cohorts of the Google for Entrepreneurs program. The four new companies, Coqui, FunnelCake, PickUpHub.net… Read more 05 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured The chair of Canadian Tire came to Kitchener on Wednesday and left an audience of more than 100 with something to ponder as International Women’s Day approaches. She also toured the Communitech Hub, where… Read more 05 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News Canada’s largest software company, Waterloo-based OpenText has gone beyond talk to become a tech sector leader in diversity, with women making up 30 percent of its workforce and occupying three of nine… Read more 05 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, News, Startups Three Waterloo Region tech companies are getting some federal government investment to help them bring new products to market faster. Auvik Networks, Dejero, Intellijoint Surgical all received fund from… Read more 05 March 2015 | By Angela Larraguibel in: Announcements, Startups Red Hat is the leading global provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to develop and offer reliable and high-performing operating system, virtualization, middleware,… Read more
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