Benchmarks, compliance changes and what we learn placing Filipino professionals. Written by the people doing the sourcing.
Every employer contribution is capped below an engineer's salary, so the load on a quoted rate is a falling curve rather than a growing stack. What the statutes actually require, and where the sticker rate stops being the cost.
The five fields that decide whether a shortlist arrives in nine days or twenty-five.
Access, buddy, first shipped change. What to have ready before day one so the first week is not spent waiting on permissions.
Twelve months, three seniority bands, and the two hires we got wrong first time.
It is statutory. Treat it as a twelfth on every month rather than a December surprise.
What full US Pacific overlap adds to a monthly rate, and why AU/NZ adds nothing.
Where offers moved this year across the three seniority bands.
What to put inside the overlap window, and what should never happen there.
Three stages, two of them asynchronous.
What happens on each day between your brief and the first three CVs.
Where control over hours and tools shifts a contractor into employment, and what that changes for you.