The Montreal Tech League

Standout Jobs - Changing the face of recruiting

Standout Jobs is a new startup born within a well-known trio from the Montreal Tech community, namely Austin Hill, Fred Ngo and Benjamin Yoskovitz. They are hiring.

From their site:

We believe:

* The job market is broken.
* Online job sites don’t work.
* Hiring people should be an ongoing process.
* Hiring people is about having conversations not bureaucracy.

Standout Jobs will change the face of recruiting.

But first, we need to build a core team of entrepreneurial-minded people, ready to change the game.

To bring their mission to fruition, the existing team is looking to hire somebody with expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

If you have met the team, you know they are a great trio of people, and no doubt it will be exciting to join them.

Here is some feedback about working with Austin Hill from the Ruby Montreal User Group:

I’ve worked for Austin (and his bro) during the Totalnet days though I doubt he would remember this web code monkey. :) The Hills are awesome people to work for. If wasn’t happy where I am now, and my Rails was ‘guru’ status I’d be applying myself.

You can be assured anything the Hills touch are gold or “at worse” one hell of a cool place to work.

Later.

- John Bateman

As from tomorrow 9:00 am, Friday the 18th of May, the S.A.T. will be the venue for the three-day event RoCoCoCamp in Montreal. This unconference promises to have an even wider audience and reach than previous BarCamps in Montreal. The agenda is open and will be organized on the spot.

Location: S.A.T. 1195 St-Laurent, Montréal (Métro St-Laurent)

Aspects of RoCoCoCamp are varied. There are sociological and political emergent phenomena linked to it. The technological mainstay of RoCoCoCamp seems to be Wiki software which lower the barrier of entry for open participatory communities.

BarCampMontreal2 was a whole day event and was full of Montreal’s Tech and not-so Tech communities. The diversity is especially important and interesting here in Montreal. There was even a panel about why there were so few women in Tech.

Some of the reports about the event are:

1. Laurent Maisonnave - ZeCanada - Vidéo d’un BarCamp à Montréal
2. Evan Prodromou
3. Patrick Tangay
4. Ben Yoskovitz
5. Heri Rakotomalala - Montreal Tech Watch - Post 1 - Post 2
6. Josh Nursing - YashLabs - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 (additional videos and pictures are forthcoming)
7. Fred Ngo
8. Shawna Nelles
9. Vero.b
10. Nicolas Ritoux
11. Martine Pagé. Another text which was used within her presentation about the lack of women in Tech.