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Career Advice From A Long-Time Practitioner Of Tech

Gestalt IT, Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

In the tech industry, moving up the ranks without the traditional opportunities of visibility and networking can be backbreaking.

Since the pandemic, a majority of workforce has been working remotely. And a blizzard of layoffs sweeping through the industry is only adding to the uncertainty making it even trickier for workers to curve out a successful career.

The 2024 Hiring Trend Report traces a significant shift in the sentiment around technical hiring. Axios Market finds that job postings for developer positions are the lowest in five years.

The business world is transitioning from volume hiring to hiring that matters. A big reason for that is more engineers are upskilling, and tapping into AI tools in their everyday work, delivering greater output than usual.

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