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Market intelligence, hiring strategy, and the occasional deep dive on SAP and enterprise tech recruitment.
A recruiter's role-by-role guide to staffing an S/4HANA brownfield conversion: which roles you actually need, why a greenfield CV is the wrong CV, permanent vs contract, and why the 2027 deadline is a hiring deadline.
Under 2% of surveyed developers are data engineers. A founder-recruiter on dating a CV by its stack, Hadoop to dbt, and the analytics-engineer fork briefs miss.
Only ~5% of developers write Swift, and cross-platform out-polls it. A founder-recruiter on dating an iOS developer's CV by the Swift timeline.
Only 0.8% of developers write Apex, yet the ecosystem needs millions more. A founder-recruiter on admin vs developer vs architect, and how to screen real depth.
Brazil overlaps almost the whole US Eastern workday, yet is short some 106,000 tech pros a year. A founder-recruiter on the scarcity, the English question, and CLT vs PJ.
Only 16.4% of developers use Go, and the senior pool is thinner still. A founder-recruiter on what to screen for: concurrency, interfaces, and error handling.
Qlik is the BI stack a generalist recruiter screens worst. A founder-recruiter on QlikView vs Qlik Sense, what genuine Qlik depth looks like (load script, set analysis, section access), why the pool is scarce, and how to brief for it.
Hiring an SAP EWM consultant is the search where keyword matching fails hardest. A founder-recruiter explains why EWM scarcity is structural, how MFS and deployment model decide the hire, and how to brief so you don't waste the shortlist.
ISC2's 2025 study found 95% of security teams report a skill gap and 59% call it critical. In 2026 the Sentinel SOC problem isn't headcount, it's depth. A recruiter's read on KQL, Copilot, tiers and European salary reality.
"Platform Engineer", "Senior SRE" and "DevOps Engineer" have converged into interchangeable labels, so the title tells you almost nothing about the band or the depth. A founder-recruiter on screening for production scars, IDP ownership and error-budget discipline.
A recruiter's first-hand snapshot of the senior SAP ABAP market across Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and DACH in 2026: real salaries, day rates, availability, English fluency and the outreach-response numbers a salary table can't show you.
When a search decides an SAP programme, depth beats volume. A founder-recruiter breaks down screening, shortlist quality, the real cost of a wrong S/4HANA hire, and the honest cases where a volume agency is still the right call.
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