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How to Hire Great Software Developers
Hiring a great software developer is no easy task, let alone an entire team of them. There’s a war for tech talent, and in order to compete, companies looking to hire software developers need to ask themselves an important question: Is my company the kind of place...
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10 Reasons Technology Professionals Would Rather Work on Contract
It may be surprising that the majority of our IT contractors don’t want permanent placement! Some people outside the industry misunderstand and think that contractors work on temporary projects because they can’t find permanent work, or as a short-term solution to...
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6 Ways to Speed Up IT Contractor Hiring – and Get the Best Contractors
We’ve noticed that clients of ours that are getting the best IT Contractors are the ones that are hiring quicker. This is because the best contract candidates are in demand and getting snapped up by someone fast. Speed is the key. You need to move faster in the hiring...
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ProFocus Technology Earns Spot on 2018 Inc. 500 List
ProFocus Technology, a Portland-based staffing and consulting company, continues to thrive, earning a spot on the 2018 Inc. 500 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The Inc. 500 List focuses on one of the most important economic contributors —America’s...
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ProFocus Technology Wins Inavero’s 2018 Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards
For the third year in a row, ProFocus has won Inavero’s Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to clients and job seekers! Presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, Inavero’s Best of Staffing winners have proven to be industry...
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Managing Communication and Relationships Between Development and Product Management
On May 30, 2018, Portland-based software development managers joined ProFocus Technology for the latest in our series of Leaders Lunches. Moderated by John Boone, President of ProFocus, our May roundtable discussion focused on the topic of communication and...
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W-2 or 1099? What You Need to Know About Employees vs. Independent Contractors
We’re living in the era of the “gig economy.” Today more people than ever — over 30% of the U.S. workforce — work as independent contractors, temporary workers, consultants, and freelancers, and that number is only expected to grow. As an IT staffing firm, we’ve seen...
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Why Every Company Is a Software Company
“Software is eating the world.” I seem to be hearing and seeing that expression all over the internet lately, that it’s almost sounding like meme nowadays. But it also happens to be true. Can you think of a single type of company or organization in existence today...
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The Over-Engineering Problem (and How to Avoid It)
One of my coworkers remarked recently that software engineers have an overengineering problem. What did he mean -- and how common is this problem? Let's look at what over-engineering is and why it's a problem with a real-world example we're all familiar with. What...
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Coding Confidential
Psst, hey I got a little programmer secret.... Ready? I think most programmers will agree that testing your code, at least in theory, is a good idea. After all, we’ve seen the public consequences of software code that hasn’t been tested enough. The recent “heartbleed...
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Machine Learning: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love SKYNET
For any of you science fiction buffs out there, probably one of the oldest plots out there is the sentient computer or robot running amok. The HAL-9000 supercomputer from “2001: A Space Odyssey”, brags in an interview with the BBC that he is perfect and incapable of...
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The Most Important Design Pattern in Software Development
Most software engineers will, sooner or later, learn about design patterns. Or at the very least, hear wind that design patterns are an important arsenal in a software engineer's toolbox. A design pattern isn't really something tangible you can pluck off a store...
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