8 Things you need to think about before hiring internationally
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Expanding your team into new markets means adding people on the ground with the right mix of experience and knowledge. But hiring the right people where you need them comes with its own set of challenges — from complying with local employment laws to implementing international payroll and benefits.
11 December 2013 | By Duncan McDowell in: Startups The Big Idea Labs is a workshop open to entrepreneurs aged 18–39 across Southern Ontario to learn how to use entrepreneurial thinking to maximize feasibility and impact your business idea. Read more 10 December 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups New York City glittered last week. The Communitech HYPERDRIVE cohort, in town for meetings and events, sparkled while in New York City, but this was no holiday. The five companies were here to hustle.… Read more 05 December 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo Imagine the potential if we could build stronger links between our ecosystem and greater Toronto’s formidable innovation economy and Waterloo, strengthening both communities and those in between; an innovation… Read more 05 December 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size A local company now partnered with Communitech’s DATA.BASE program has joined the fight against algae blooms that sap waterways of oxygen and threaten other forms of aquatic life.The Centre for Community… Read more 05 December 2013 | By Sam Trieu in: Startups Startups are invited to apply for a six-month residency, in the Google innovation space at the Communitech Hub. Access development tools and resources to help you get up and running. You’ll enjoy world-class… Read more 04 December 2013 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured Jim MacMillan left BlackBerry in late August, and it has since led him to his new role as a business systems consultant at Sun Life Financial. Right Management, Communitech and Tech Jobs Connex were fantastic… Read more 03 December 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Small to Mid Size Whiteway was testing the level of methane gas in the air in Fort McMurray, using a spectrometer he had created in the lab at his Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science at York, in collaboration… Read more 02 December 2013 | By Communitech in: Featured, Startups The Canadian government has launched a new Concierge Service to help connect entrepreneurs with information, advice and support programs for small and mid-sized businesses. The service, will make it easier… Read more 29 November 2013 | By Sam Trieu in: Small to Mid Size, Startups Communitech is offering four breakfast workshops to help you kick your startup and small business. Find out more. Read more 28 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Small to Mid Size, View from the ‘Loo Communitech Hub has about 120 startups residents, is the centre of a network. There is some large companies, like Intuit, a $25-billion player in financial software headquartered in California, and non-tech… Read more
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