Why hiring in Central Asia is harder than it should be
Everyone tells you the talent is there. Nobody tells you that the sites where it looks for work will not accept your listing.
Notes on hiring somewhere you have never hired
Written from doing it. What actually blocks a foreign studio from posting on a local job board, which requirements in a job ad are doing no work, and the parts of hiring abroad that turn out to be simpler than they sound.
English fluency is the wrong filter for a creative hire
You are hiring somebody to make things that move. Judging them on how they write an email is a habit worth examining.
Can you hire someone abroad without opening a company there?
The question that stops most agencies before they start, answered properly, including where the answer is genuinely no.
Looking for something specific about one country? The country guides cover the boards, the working language, the time overlap and how contractors are usually paid, market by market.