Australian tech companies and large corporations are starting to find it easier to pick up skilled staff, as VC-funded start-ups tighten their belts.
The results of slowing tech start-up investment and the resulting redundancies across the sector are starting to show up in an easing of a previously crippling shortage of affordable tech skills, according to new data and companies hiring talent.worthy of discussion
to abandon the “growth at all costs” strategies prevalent last year, in favour of more prudent cash management., show the anecdotal evidence of hiring companies being borne out across the market. “There’s less VCs out there with wheelbarrows of cash funding competition, and so we think we have a really good opportunity going forward.”“In all, there has been a slight softening over the past two to three months on both the talent demand and supply side, but it remains an extremely tight employment market,” a SEEK spokeswoman said.
Despite having heard plenty about a local skills shortage, Mr Munnangi said he found local talent keen to join a company working on tangible products in an area they enjoyed, and also keen to join a company that has the vestiges of start-up cut and thrust, with the security of having beenYesh Munnangi, CEO at Rome2Rio has been able to go on an aggressive hiring spree since the start of the year.“We started putting the roles out and we saw really good resumes come through, at a pretty good rate.
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