#MTLStartupTalent aims to connect companies that are hiring with talent looking for employment. This event will bring together startups and early stage companies working with cutting edge technologies, all looking to hire the best in Web, Mobile Development, Design, Blogging, Marketing, Sales, Advertising and Social Media. For individuals, this event will offer employment opportunities while increasing awareness of the growing opportunities within exciting local startups and established tech companies. It will demonstrate the dynamism and diversity of Montreal’s startup community and how rapidly it is growing.
2. MISSION
#MTLSTARTUPTALENT BRIDGES TALENT AND
STARTUPS IN MONTREAL.
Montreal has the highest concentra/on of students and
talent in North America, yet companies find it difficult to
connect with talent.
To solve this, we need to convince talent and students of
the advantages and exci/ng opportuni/es available in
technology startups.
3. WHAT WE DO
EVENTS + CONNECTIONS +
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
What we do:
– we organize startup job fairs gathering
500+ talents and startups
– we partner and support main developer
groups: montreal.rb, mtlpython, nodejs,
montreal-‐JUG, cocoa, android, html5
and more
– we reach out to all universi/es,
engineering schools and colleges, and
promote startups in crea%ve ways!
4. TYPICAL OPPORTUNITIES
PRODUCT MANAGER
70% of posi/ons are technical.
PYTHON PROGRAMMER
Many involve cuOng-‐edge
technologies: node.js, scala,
UI AND UXP DESIGNER
android, redis, big data, etc.
RUBY DEVELOPER
JAVA PROGRAMMER
MARKETING MANAGER
Startups are also looking for
HTML5 - JAVASCRIPT WRANGLER
business and product managers as
SYS-ADMINS - DATABASES
well as great graphic/UI/UX
designers.
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6. WHY JOIN STARTUPS?
BRILLIANT IDEAS STAY HUNGRY, STAY
Work with entrepreneurs FOOLISH
who believe in changing We fail at least once but
the world, and will reach we built it beVer the
hundreds of millions of second /me. And we love
users the risk!
LATEST TECHNOLOGIES PASSION
Work on hot new Join a community where
technologies on Android or passion, vision and
iOS plaXorms or with new
product maVer more
technologies such as
mongodb/redis/nodejs than anything else.
7. #MTLSTARTUPTALENT 17TH FEB 2012
CONNECTING 500 TALENTS TO 25+
STARTUPS IN 6 HOURS
What you can expect:
– access to great job opportuni/es at
exci/ng companies
– a chance to converse with an employee
or founder and start to build a
rela/onship
– a casual (yet serious) environment to
network with others in your field of
interest
10. TEAM
HERI RAKOTOMALALA DEREK JEN JAKE HIRSCH ALLEN
Technology writer, Social Media and Startup and IP lawyer;
startup founder. Tech Technology Enthusiast. business development,
event organizer Project Manager and government rela/ons and
event organizer. outreach consultant;
diplo-‐brat
GENEVIÈVE HÉON GREG WHTIESIDE
Community Manager. Founder / So^ware
Recrutement -‐ RH -‐ engineer. Tech event
Médias sociaux -‐ Actualité coorganizer. Aspiring
lucid dreamer.
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