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Despite the coronavirus pandemic, international IT recruitment agency Lucky Hunter has opened and office in Covent Garden in London's West End.

To help you better understand the kind of tech talent you need for your next open role, let's take a closer look at what it means to be a junior, mid-level, and senior developer:

Let's see what specialities have become the most sought-after nowadays. The data collected is based on international ratings, as well as statistics from the IT recruitment agency Lucky Hunter.

If you could create and hire for just one game-changing role in 2021, what would it be and what would that person's responsibilities be?

The massive shift to remote work has removed many of the barriers to international talent that employers used to face, greatly simplifying the process of hiring specialists from around the world. This is particularly true for Russian IT professionals. Developers from Russia are an excellent solution for employers from the US and Europe. In the article the Lucky Hunter Head Tatiana Melnichuk explains why.

As a part of our series about strong women leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tatiana Melnichuk.

By Tatiana Melnichuk

Have you been planning to build a remote IT team, but not sure where to start from? The current situation and the pandemic impact on the world is not helping, right? The good news is that despite the circumstances, hiring people for remote work in the IT sector is not something new. In fact, this type of employment has already been used by most large IT companies for a long time.

The sphere of information technology is the world's most rapidly growing. Almost every company needs IT specialists. The demand for developers is so high, that employers are actively competing for IT specialists. Since a great number of high-tech companies and startups are focused in Europe, the shortage of IT specialists is particularly acute in this region.

Recruiting a high-level specialist is not an easy task even for prestigious companies.

How do you successfully recruit a team of Russian-speaking IT specialists for a European company? Tatiana Melnichuk explains.

Every company's faced the challenge of recruiting specialists. Even giants like Facebook and Google can't fill all positions. Visit Google or Facebook Careers and see for yourself. Too many job openings, but too few candidates. A good salary, a fashionable office, a corporate Macbook — you seem to offer the best conditions, but developers still don't choose you. What's to be done? Telling you about seven main lures of developers, for which they are ready to accept your offer.

Do you build extensive plans? Do you want to start your own business, but don't want to retry an experiment of many startups that "died" within the first five years? Indeed, the market today faces hard times. Even in high-end spheres such as IT, the risk of failure is quite high. And, nevertheless, if you are a fan of technology and you have an excellent set of soft skills, then IT recruiting can become a profitable and exciting business format for you.