Hiring top crypto talent can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be
How to identify top crypto talent in the recruitment process: Hire a diverse range of people who have the required attributes without lowering your standards. Building a career or constructing a team in decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto relies on finding talent, skills and the right attitude anywhere, in anyone. While this is no different than other industries, what makes ours unique are the much-needed, specialized skill sets combined with finding a good culture fit in an international and remote setting.Despite recent turbulence in markets, crypto companies continue building and....
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried explained that the exchange will continue to “keep growing” during the bear market. Amid unfavorable market conditions, some cryptocurrency-related firms decided to cut their workforce or freeze hiring. However, crypto exchange platform FTX will continue hiring new personnel as the crypto winter continues. In a Twitter thread, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried explained that the exchange will continue to “keep growing,” explaining that they will onboard new staff just as they have done on the market’s better days. Bankman-Fried noted that in February the company slowed....
"We're hiring, just like everyone, hiring aggressively for the right people." According to PwC FinTech director Jeremy Drane, the number one issue facing the blockchain industry today is a lack of talent, a declaration backed up by statements from the firm's peers. A blockchain hiring crunch is now hitting the major professional services firms as they seek to satisfy the growing demand for products and services from global financial institutions and businesses. In interviews, global consulting firms Deloitte, KPMG and PwC indicated that they're currently seeking to hire....
With the amount of activity happening around Blockchain technology, companies are now hiring individuals with Blockchain related expertise, mainly including developers, security experts and business consultants. Due in part to the relatively new emergence of the technology, businesses are now competing with one another to access this talent due to the lack of supply. The war for talent will only get worse unless we train more people globally, including going back to the grassroots of society, whereby universities begin the introduction of Blockchain and cryptocurrency courses as part of a....
While ad-blocking browser startup Brave just raised millions of dollars in an initial coin offering (ICO), that doesn't mean the startup has been able to make all its goals actionable. After attracting what was then valued at $35m by selling cryptographic assets aimed at monetizing online user behavior, the startup today posted the first of a series of job posts that would double the startup's size. However, after having privately been on the hunt for talent for weeks, Brave founder Brenden Eich is cautious about how quickly he'll be able to find the much-needed talent. In the wake of a....