Last week, you built your Career Balance Sheet. You listed every problem you've solved. You put real numbers on your impact. Maybe you automated processes and saved $1.5M. Maybe you closed a deal worth $20M in ARR. Maybe you cut sales cycles from 6 months to 8 weeks. But here's the first principles question: What's […]
Stop Networking Like Everyone Else (The 95-5 Principle) Most people treat networking like fitness. They lie on the sofa for three years eating chips and drinking beers, watching sport instead of playing it. Then they wake up one day, realize they've gained 20kg professionally, and can't climb the career stairs anymore. Sound familiar? You go […]
Finding Your Next Role in Fintech - Episode 1 If you're struggling to land a job in fintech here in Australia, you're probably approaching it the wrong way. Most people searching for fintech jobs treat the hiring process like they're applying for permission to work. They craft the perfect resume, polish their LinkedIn profile, and […]
What is a fractional Executive? I’ve recently seen the term Fractional Executive marketed as the panacea to a fintech founders growth challenges. And whilst the term seems to be gaining steam on LinkedIn, it is yet to fully hit mainstream. Over the past decade I’ve been a big advocate for startups engaging executives on a […]
Tier One People founder Dexter Cousins was recently asked by Startup Daily to share his thoughts on Australia's Tech talent shortage. Originally published on Startup Daily Ask any founder their top three challenges, and talent is likely to feature amongst them. Record low unemployment, closed international borders, the great resignation, remote workers, soaring salaries and […]
An opinion piece by Dexter Cousins, Managing Director of Tier One People. In late 2022 Chat GPT seemed to come out of nowhere, the truth is the technology is 7 years old and advancing at a rapid rate. Companies have been developing AI tools for decades, and in the last 10 years we've seen a […]
We live in a digital world - yet many of the processes and systems we use are stuck in an analog world. None more so than recruitment. Despite rapid technological advances this century, the process of hiring has remained largely unchanged over the last 100 years. No part of the hiring process causes more debate than […]
"Whenever we hired tech talent with payments or Fintech experience, they would charge us a premium. Where as you go to India and you have Mastercard, Visa, many of the European Banks and many international Fintech giants with large development teams. The reality is we can offer clients people with 10-15 years experience at Mastercard […]
“The Revolut Country CEO search took six months. The brief changed 4 times as the company grew from 700 to almost 2000 staff during this time. Customer numbers went from 4m to almost 10m. When a company is growing that fast in a highly regulated sector like Banking, it creates a lot of complexity, meaning […]
How Is Covid-19 Impacting The Fintech jobs market in Sydney and Melbourne right now? As someone who has been in the recruitment industry since the last millenium, I can tell you we are in unprecedented times when it comes to the job market. Mass unemployment overnight, businesses shut down, workforces banned from their office, I […]
In response to the rapid escalation of job losses across the Aussie Fintech community Tier One People and FinTech Australia have joined forces to build a Talent Market Place, connecting Fintechers directly to opportunities. The Market Place is a Private LinkedIn Group where founders and hiring managers can advertise jobs, put out requests for skills […]
Welcome To The Tier One People Fintech Jobs Report. Sydney Advertises Four Hundred Fintech Jobs! Developers and Engineers make up more than 50% of all jobs advertised in Australia. On the face of it, the Sydney Fintech jobs market is going gangbusters compared to every other city with almost 400 advertised positions. But when we […]
