Reference Check Questions for Senior Hires: How to Get the Information You Need
Raman Shalupau • March 23, 2023 • 4 min read
Reference checks are a crucial part of the hiring process, especially for senior positions. While interviews can give you a sense of a candidate's skills and qualifications, reference calls allow you to get a more comprehensive picture of their work history, strengths, and weaknesses. However, getting useful information out of reference calls can be challenging. Referrers may be hesitant to say anything negative, even if it's true, and may not always offer the information you need to make an informed decision. In this article, we'll provide you with some effective reference check questions that can help you get the information you need to make a smart hiring decision.
2022 Crypto Jobs Report
Federico Spitaleri • Raman Shalupau • January 30, 2023 • 17 min read
2022 has been a hard year for the web3 ecosystem, with Bitcoin reaching $16k and major projects like Celsius, 3AC and FTX (just to name a few) facing insolvency. In this 2022 Crypto Jobs Report we aim at showing how the above mentioned events impacted hiring trends for 2022 and what we can expect to see in the upcoming year.
Welcome to 2023
Raman Shalupau • January 16, 2023 • 5 min read
The Crypto Jobs List team has been productive in 2022, implementing new features and improvements on the platform, including newsletter subscriptions by category, job bookmarks, tags, job sorting, verified company badges, and a Trends page to compare hiring volumes to crypto market prices. They have also added a Success Stories page, video applications, Ethereum push notification service integration, and improved overall page performance.
Impact of FTX collapse on the Crypto Job market
Chong • Federico Spitaleri • November 22, 2022 • 7 min read
Will hiring stop? Will companies rescind offers? We took the time to ask 30+ multichain protocols from the FTX and Solana ecosystems to see how SBF's poor decisions affected their hiring.
What Is Quiet Quitting?
Raman Shalupau • October 31, 2022 • 7 min read
Quiet quitting trend is quickly spreading across multiple industries. Do you want to learn its effects on employees and employers? Read this blog now!
First Jobs of 5 Crypto Multi-Millionaires
Raman Shalupau • October 10, 2022 • 2 min read
Multi-millionaires didn’t just earn their status overnight. Instead, they took risks, researched the market, and came up with ingenious ideas that took them over the edge. But what do all the crypto multi-millionaires have in common? Determination, resilience, and a creative vision.
How to Become a Solidity Developer?
Raman Shalupau • October 07, 2022 • 8 min read
Do you want to become a good Solidity developer? This blog covers the steps of becoming a Solidity developer, job responsibilities, and much more. Read on!
How to get started with an On-Chain Resume
Vignesh • March 30, 2022 • 6 min read
An on-chain resume is an essential first step to showing your talent in the Web3 space. Here's how you can get started with building an on-chain resume.
Getting started as a community manager in crypto
Vignesh • March 16, 2022 • 7 min read
The Crypto industry is very community-driven, making a crypto community manager an essential hire for most crypto companies. Get started as a crypto community manager.
Top 5 Smart Contract Audit Companies in 2022
Vignesh • February 22, 2022 • 5 min read
Smart Contract auditing is a fast-growing industry, with a lot of demand from various crypto startups in NFT, DeFi, and other spaces. However, there are very few firms that offer these services.
Metaverse Architect: Building the future
Vignesh • February 15, 2022 • 4 min read
Metaverse lands have no value if they're empty. Companies need highly skilled metaverse architects to build on their lands. Read on to know how to become a metaverse architect.
6 Skills in Demand for NFT Jobs
Vignesh • January 05, 2022 • 4 min read
NFTs is a fast-growing industry within the crypto space and a great deal of NFT Jobs remain vacant. Check out some of the skills that are needed by the NFT Companies.
DAO Jobs: The future of work is here
Vignesh • December 02, 2021 • 6 min read
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) allow for people to come together, collaborate to create value, and get compensated for their work in a fair and transparent manner. DAOs could be the future of work.
What is Web3 and why should you care?
Vignesh • November 25, 2021 • 5 min read
Web3 is a decentralized web and what the future of the internet looks like. It's a future that puts people and free speech first, and it's going to change everything.
Tranche Finance Hired Their Dream Designer to Revolutionize DeFi
Vignesh • October 19, 2021 • 2 min read
Through CryptoJobsList, Tranche Finance got to access a vast pool of talent, and finally found their dream candidate! Tranche Finance was impressed with the smooth job-post process and the speed at which they got responses.
Top 10 Blockchain Courses in Singapore's Education Powerhouse
Luke Hsu • Vignesh Selvasundar • Danny Garcia • September 23, 2021 • 10 min read
If you're looking for a comprehensive list of the best blockchain course in Singapore, look no more. With the government of Singapore embracing blockchain technology, there is a huge demand for talent, and most universities have stepped in to fill the void.
How Alpaca Finance Hired the Right Head of Business Development
Vignesh • September 22, 2021 • 2 min read
As an organization expands, hiring a Business Development Manager is essential. When the CEO and COO no longer have the time to look into the small details, the Head of Business Development is the one that steps in. A BD’s responsibilities include managing the current business and look for future business opportunities. Alpaca Finance was at the exact same spot a few weeks ago.
Finding an entry-level Cryptocurrency job
Joshua Hay • September 07, 2021 • 5 min read
If you’re asking yourself how to find an entry-level cryptocurrency job, you’ve come to the right place. How do you start looking for something that you are unfamiliar with?
How CryptoJobsList Helped Cryptowisser Stay on Top of Reviews
Kai Sedgwick • April 29, 2021 • 3 min read
Crypto service comparison site Cryptowisser has a tough job, what with maintaining thousands of reviews in an industry that evolves at warp speed. A review site that puts digital asset exchanges, wallets, payment platforms, merchants and NFT marketplaces under the microscope, the portal helps consumers navigate a sector that can be puzzling at the best of times.
Why Now Is the Best Time to Jobseek in Crypto [Candidate Update]
Robert Knight • April 12, 2021 • 2 min read
This is a great period for job seekers, especially for those trying to break into the blockchain market. There has never been a better time to start working in crypto or a better time to seek a move within the sector. We currently have a long list of fantastic companies actively hiring for both technical and non-technical roles in entry, medium and senior-level positions.
Crypto changed my life, this is my story
Ismael Ter Veer • January 08, 2021 • 7 min read
Crypto changed my life. I’m 27 and was born and raised in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It’s a great city, you should visit it sometime. But you’re here for a story about crypto, so let us dive into this wonderful story of a young dude in crypto land. I’ll also give you some tips on finding a job in crypto.
How to Find a Full Stack Engineer Without Sifting Through a Stack of Resumés
Kai Sedgwick • July 23, 2020 • 3 min read
When you’re in the market for a full-stack engineer, speed is of the essence. No one wants an engineer in three months’ time: they want them yesterday. But as weary recruiters will attest, job-seekers can sense the urgency that permeates such vacancies, prompting ill-suited candidates to try their luck with a spontaneously submitted resumé. Pretty soon you’re battling a mountain of paperwork, a stack of applications, and are no closer to finding The One.
How to 🥶 cold-contact anyone and get a response 👍
Raman Shalupau • June 17, 2020 • 2 min read
How you communicate is key to landing the career of your dreams. No matter if you are fresh out of college or a seasoned executive. Your comms skills only get more important over time.
Why I joined Epicenter
Graham Tonkin • December 03, 2019 • 3 min read
Like many others, I quickly discounted Bitcoin upon hearing about it because I didn’t understand it. I couldn’t figure out why something could be so v ...
How Status found a Great Technical Marketing Manager
Jonathan Barker • November 29, 2019 • 2 min read
Hiring is one of the greatest challenges a company faces. Particularly so for companies that work remotely. How can you tell whether a candidate’s character is as robust as their resumé? Or whether they’re as capable of working on their own initiative as they are as part of a team? There’s no easy answer to that: successful recruitment is as much art as it is science.
Announcing a New Crypto Jobs List Logo
Raman Shalupau • October 06, 2019 • 2 min read
After over a year of research, deep thinking, hard work, trials and experimentation, I’m excited to finally present to you Crypto Jobs List’s new logo ...
Tech and Blockchain meets Human Resources
Agnes Krzysztofowicz • July 16, 2019 • 3 min read
How to make a transition into Blockchain tech related job
Raman, how come you have spotted the right time and place and created 1 Job Board for Blo ...
5 Ways Blockchain May Impact The Future Of Employment
Olumide Gbenro • May 23, 2019 • 4 min read
With the upcoming Running Remote Conference centering around the future of remote work and the topic of blockchain technology often circulating in and out of the headlines it can become quite a confusion space but what is clear is that innovations are happening in various spaces especially employment. Here are 5 ways blockchain may impact the future of employment.
How I killed Resume Black Hole
Raman Shalupau • September 07, 2018 • 3 min read
A month before starting Crypto Jobs List, I was applying to all blockchain developer jobs I could find…
Why you should verify the tokens you own: A deep dive into two vulnerable ERC20 contracts
Koh Wei Jie • Raman Shalupau • April 26, 2018 • 6 min read
The prices of two crypto tokens — BeautyChain and SmartMesh — dramatically crashed this week. One or more attackers exploited bugs in the their smart contracts and generated huge amounts of tokens out of thin air, massively diluting token supplies. These events could have been easily avoided. In this post, we describe the attacks, illustrate them with Solidity code examples, and argue that these hacks are a wake-up call for token investors and developers to be more cognisant and diligent about smart contract security
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Raman Shalupau • December 12, 2017 • 11 min read
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Our crypto partners & appearances
Raman Shalupau • September 28, 2017 • 5 min read
Woohoo! We think it’s a good time to mention a few good words about our crypto partners and affiliates to whom we ought our current success.