insights & resources
- Sales Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 min
I’ve sat in plenty of meetings where a client lays out, with total confidence, exactly what they want in a VP of Sales and every problem that hire is going to fix. It’s rarely that simple. It’s usually the single decision that determines whether the next eighteen months are spent
- Tech Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 Minutes
How to Structure a Data Team – a Guide I sat down with Adam Li, who leads data and analytics talent placements at Salient, to talk about a question that comes up often for his clients: how do you actually structure a data team? Not generally but for the specific
- Jonny Jameson
- 4 Minutes
This is the 2026 rate card for DevOps, SRE, Cloud Architecture, and FinOps contractors across Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. Use it to budget a contract, sanity-check an agency’s quote, or set expectations before a scoping call. A DevOps engineer contract day rate in Sydney currently runs from $800 for mid-level
- Tech Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 5 min
- Tech Hiring
- Yvette Midwinter
- 3 Minutes
A CTO executive search in Singapore is very different from the process you would run in Australia. Everyone says the same thing when they first start talking about a Singapore expansion: “we just need a CTO who can run the region.” But of course it’s not that simple. A
- Candidate Guides
- Michael Moreno
- 3 Minutes
Every recruiter has watched a candidate do everything right in an interview and then unravel in the last five minutes. The offer came in. The number was fine, not great. And the candidate said, “Sounds good, thank you,” and hung up before anyone had a chance to ask if there