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careerxlsstudyabroad · 6 years ago

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Toronto’s tech worker pay growth is among the highest in the world

~CXL~ Toronto and Boston have topped a tech salary growth survey of 13 global cities, with the average pay in the GTA hitting $100,000 this year, a 9 per cent jump over 2018 but still far from the Silicon Valley average of $145,000 (U.S.), or roughly $192,000.

The 2019 State of Salaries report from San Francisco-based career marketplace Hired says average Toronto tech salaries are at the highest level in four years amid what the Information Technology Association of Canada calls a profound shortage of tech workers in a market increasingly driven by digital ventures.

“Rising salaries are a sign of a thriving economy, which is certainly the case in Toronto and Boston,” said Hired CEO Mehul Patel, who added that every technology hub — not just Toronto — is experiencing a shortage of qualified and experienced technical talent.

“Their startup communities are growing and more technology giants are opening satellite offices,” Patel said citing a report by the Bank of Montreal naming Toronto the fourth largest and fastest growing market for tech workers in North America.

But while tech talent can be hard to find, salaries for tech workers in Toronto remain below the U.S. average of $135,000 (U.S.) and the global average of $129,000 (U.S.), with the latter falling year over year thanks to the growth of secondary tech markets in cities including Boston, where the average tech salary rose 9 per cent to $127,000 (U.S.) in 2019.

The Hired survey shows that natural language processing engineers in Toronto who develop artificial intelligence for interactions between computers and human languages are paid the most, at an average of $112,000, followed by machine learning engineers at $108,000 and blockchain engineers at $107,000.

Blockchain engineers develop technology that allows information to be distributed and shared publicly over the internet without being copied.

The survey released Thursday also shows that salaries for tech workers overall peak in their mid-40s at $149,000 (U.S.) but then plateau after 50 and as they enter their 60s. It said 60 per cent of tech talent plan to leave their current city within five years.

Fuelled by government funded start-up accelerators, welcoming immigration polices and a healthy venture capital market, Toronto was the world’s fastest-growing tech-jobs market in 2017 and the fourth-largest tech hub in North America, according to a CBRE Group study.

Separate research by TechToronto said the Toronto tech ecosystem accounted for 15 per cent of the city’s workforce in 2016. It said tech jobs grew by 14.6 per cent from 2010 to 2015.

Read More at https://www.thestar.com/business/2019/06/20/torontos-tech-worker-pay-growth-is-among-the-highest-in-the-world.html

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healthcasa-blog · 6 years ago

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My journey as a first time startup founder

Couldn’t make it to the biggest #HealthTO event of the year at Health Innovation week two weeks ago? Listen to all the amazing speakers here, including HealthCasa CEO and co-founder Karen Klein talking about her journey as a first time startup founder.

Thank you to TechToronto and MaRS Discovery District for an awesome event!

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bedrockaffect · 6 years ago

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💡Sarah Landstreet educating #TechTO on the ins and outs of the packaging industry⁣ ⁣ 📈TechToronto brings together Toronto's tech leaders, innovators, and enthusiasts for monthly events. Definitely something to check out to stay connected to the @Toronto tech & business scene.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #motivation #inspiration #coaching #lifecoach #success #entrepreneur #lifecoaching #positivevibes #personaldevelopment #entrepreneurship #achievement #hustle #opportunity #businessgoals #ideas #business #leadership #coaching #blockchain #innovation #entrepreneurship #startup #venturecapital #startups — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Of5Hst

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jobs-toronto · 4 years ago

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loribos · 7 years ago

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New Post has been published on http://www.torontonicity.com/2018/02/18/techto-meetup/

What Happens at a #TechTO Meetup?

Once a month, and sometimes even more frequently, hundreds of well connected Toronto area tech workers gather in one spot to listen and learn the latest trends and social tactics presented in recent business case studies at TechTO. This meetup has become a much anticipated monthly occasion and a celebration of good ideas and technological innovations. as the leaders of Canada’s largest companies discuss how they use the internet.

Networking at TechTO on Feb. 12, 2018

TechToronto, or #TechTO, is the biggest monthly technology meetup in the city. But it didn’t start that way: this is the little webmaster convention that grew. If you read the About Us section on the TechToronto.org website, Jason Goldlist describes how the first meetings happened in pubs and restaurants. Outgrowing these smaller venues, the meetup group moved about for many years as it grew and grew until it couldn’t possibly get any larger, and now it’s a monster.

TechToronto went mainstream long ago and is now hosted in the most capacious conference rooms of the tallest bank towers in the city. The 2018 conference schedule features rock star executives from A-list companies and super generous giveaways from the biggest corporations on planet Earth. Sponsors include Facebook, Microsoft, and Rogers is in there too of course, and even General Motors. The City of Toronto itself, Canada’s largest urban center and the fourth largest metropolis in all of North America, is also among the proud sponsors.

Entrepreneurs

Below is Tricia Adler with her two-slice pizza dinner. This enterprising #TechTO attendee retails magic charms online at Amulights.com and is a well known female Canadian webpreneur. She comes to this convention every month to network and connect with people who can grow her business.

Tricia Adler of Amulights.com is a Canadian webpreneur.

The Women in Tech Meetup was present in the foyer. Check Eventbrite for Women in Tech events and to get details on their many activities throughout the city. By the way, men are welcome to join and participate.

So what actually happens at TechTO?

As per the mandate on their website, the monthly TechToronto meetup is designed for Toronto technologists to “learn something new and meet someone new.” The entire evening is organized around an idea that goes back to its root origins; five speakers get five minutes each. Each presentation is made by a Toronto technology company, and they use their time on stage to share a lesson learned, a counter-intuitive finding, or to demonstrate and sometimes even “debut a disruptive new technology.”

Yes, the five show & tell sequences last longer than five minutes each; with questions answered they can stretch to fifteen and sometimes twenty minutes per speaker. And remember, there’s forty minutes of networking over beer and pizza beforehand; put it all together and you’ve got a proven model for tech convention success.

A vendor promotes his business outside of the #TechTO conference room.

A dozen or more vendors line the corners and ends of the lobby area outside the main conference room; every business in a booth presenting out here was busy competing for attention and was therefore giving away something. These baubles ranged from paper wrapped chocolates, free mobile apps, colourful (branded) stickers for laptops and rubber squeeze toys.

Hover Domain Registry at #TechTO Meetup in Toronto

Hover domain registry was there giving away dress socks again – they did that at HackerNest as reported on eMagTO, but this conference is much larger, and so many more socks would be required. Over four hundred people attended TechTO on this Monday night, Feb 12, 2018 – such is the appetite for learning and networking in this sector.

There is one more magic ingredient that makes this mix extra special; Jason Goldlist is among the most charismatic and unique MCs in the city. Iconic on his hover board, he marshals the masses into the theatre with his megaphone.

Chris. host of #TechTO Meetup in Toronto

And then there’s another extra special feature that must have evolved into the activities menu and stayed there because its so popular; after introductions and before the first speaker comes on stage there’s a fifteen-minute open mic session where audience members can regal the masses with their own promotional messaging for ten seconds each. Jason stands, or hovers, beside the speaker with his eyes on a stopwatch, and he will, and often does, take the microphone right out of the speaker’s hand, mid-sentence, at the eleven second mark!

This portion of the itinerary always yields an amazing array of orally-delivered classified-ads style messaging. Someone in the audience will stand and say, ‘We’re looking for developers here’, and someone else will say, ‘I’m an out of work techie please hire me’; it’s a highly entertaining segment that has survived the scheduling because it is so popular, helpful and authentic.

Raymi Lauren at #TechTO Meetup in Toronto

Raymi Lauren strategically positioned herself at the back of the room to lay in waiting, ready to pounce as Jason passed during the open mic session; Toronto web development company Full Stack Resources sends Raymi Toronto to these conventions to make friends and influence people. Carrying brochures and questionnaires from Full Stack Resources, Raymi represents an entirely new business model that peddles custom software solutions over hard-to-find IT staff.

Raymi Lauren speaks to the audience at #TechTO Meetup in Toronto.

When Raymi got the mic, she shouted out solicitations to business owners looking to develop online resources, and also to unemployed programmers and coders looking for work. This duality ensured the message was well received and judging by the similar calls that came afterwards, it may have inspired some other software engineers to broadcast their own technical offerings.

Raymi Lauren speaks at #TechTO Meetup in Toronto.

After the pass-the-conch ceremony concluded, the audience was then treated to some words from the sponsors, and among the highlights here was Michael Dingle from PWC – Price Waterhouse Cooper who showed statistics illustrating how much money was pouring into the tech sector, and particularly to new startups where investors believe they can get more ground level opportunities. Michael is a Partner in the Deals practice of PwC Canada and leads the firm’s Deals efforts in the Technology Sector on a national basis. Run by #CDNTech leaders @dulny, @DingleMichael, #MoneyTree Q2 2017 is available now.

Then the speeches started proper, and first up was Mark Opauszky, Co-founder & CEO of LookBookHQ. His company builds software that accelerates B2B purchase decisions by helping marketing and sales educate prospects and customers faster and more efficiently. They have a great reputation among marketing technology vendors, and LookBookHQ prides itself on being proactive about optimizing performance on behalf of their clients. Mark himself and the Lookbook HQ company as a whole has lots of experience to share with hundreds of deployments under their belt now; at this point they can speak confidently about every nuance and use-case for their software.

Next was Dr. Joshua Landy, Co-founder of Figure1. This firm has made medical sharing technology that allows physicians and institutions to effortlessly share medical cases and get second opinions and additional insights on treatments. Their technology saves lives. Joshua Landy’s discourse was inspirational; more than once he referenced the value of (and the need for) a Hippocratic oath for technology workers.

Don Mal, the Founder and CEO of Vena was the third speaker and he also explored ethics and workplace ‘best practices’. Vena is enterprise class software for budgeting, planning and forecasting with powerful reporting and analytics display tools.

And finally Jordan Wimmer, CEO and Co-Founder of Thrive Savings took the stage around nine thirty pm. This company earned some gasps when it became clear what exactly they do; Thrive Savings is an automated savings program that attempts to customize itself to each user’s lifestyle, income, and spending habits. The software helps people save money by extracting it when they are least likely to notice or care. But what piqued the audience is how they ask Canadians if they can link to their bank savings and chequing accounts! And more amazingly, how and why so many people are now saying ‘yes’.

This from their website: “Thrive supports all major banks and credit unions across Canada. We’ll analyze your spending and income patterns and use this data to determine how much to save for you. Thrive is secure. We protect your data with bank-grade 256-bit encryption.”

In summary you could say that the #MeToo movement has definitely impacted these bright lights big city technology companies and female equality but also worker empowerment in general was a talking point in all presentations.

Follow Tech Toronto @TechTorontoOrg , ‏a pillar in the Toronto technology community. Search #Entrepreneurs, #Startups or the hashtag #TechTO in any social medium to get real time updates on this entertaining high-tech knowledge network.

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tortuga-aak · 7 years ago

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11 entrepreneurs and execs share the best lessons they learned from their first jobs

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While the overwhelming majority of people don't start out in their dream jobs, you can learn a lot while earning your first paycheck.

First jobs often take us out of our comfort zone, stretching us in ways we couldn't have anticipated and helping to shape our path forward. They can also teach us invaluable lessons about ourselves, how to work with different personalities and how to solve problems on the fly.

For example, Mary Barra started out as a quality inspector on the General Motors (GM) assembly line before going on to become the company's first female CEO, and she says her time on the line helped her really value the people who did that role for the company.

I asked eleven successful entrepreneurs about the lessons they learned while earning their first paycheck.

1. Appreciate the jobs that fulfill you emotionally.

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"I got a minimum wage job in a windowless chemistry lab where I had to wear a full-body protection suit and clean glass beakers with acid. It was mind-numbingly boring. It was painful and low-pay. The most important thing I learned was an appreciation for any job that would be fulfilling emotionally. I really wanted a job that had direct positive impact on people's lives and without that, I couldn't be happy." — Ryan Carson, TreeHouse CEO and Founder

2. Make the most of limited resources.

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"During high school, I spent my summers as a camp counselor taking a bunch of kids on canoe trips, some as long as 40 days. I learned a lot about teamwork and making the most of limited resources — only so much can fit into a backpack, and a lot can go wrong when you're out in the backwoods for weeks at a time. I also learned a lot about perseverance and hard work — there are no shortcuts on great journeys.

"There are a surprising number of parallels between being a camp counselor and building your own business. The attributes that help you survive in the woods are the same attributes that will help you be successful as an entrepreneur." — Mike McDerment, FreshBooks CEO and Co-founder

3. Know your worth.

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"My first job was a secretary position at a legal firm in downtown Los Angeles. The head secretary ended up quitting a couple weeks after I started so I was given a lot of responsibility, essentially managing an office of 12 lawyers. I learned how to use Outlook and Excel, how to work in a corporate environment and manage my time, how to be diplomatic and deal with tough clients.

"It also taught me my own worth, that I was capable of earning a real salary. As a young person (I was still in high school), I realized age didn't matter as much as work ethic and ability. Also, the firm had a female partner. She was a very talented lawyer and reminded me I could do anything I wanted." — Leila Janah, Samasource CEO and Founder

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