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Charmaine Tsang
VP of Demand Generation at Second Talent
Charmaine Tsang is VP of Demand Generation at Second Talent, where she connects engineering and hiring leaders with AI-native tech talent across nine APAC markets. A Y Combinator alum, she writes on global hiring, building remote teams and what it actually costs to staff engineering offshore. Second Talent is rated #1 in Global Hiring on G2, with 200+ companies served and 8,000+ engineers placed.
Top 60+ Future of Work & Workplace Statistics 2026
US offices hit 53.2% occupancy in Sept 2026, 26% of paid days are worked from home and global engagement fell…
Top 80+ Remote Work & Hiring Statistics 2026
87% of US professional job postings were fully on-site in Q2 2026, yet remote roles drew 35% of LinkedIn applications.…
Top 60+ AI in Recruitment Statistics for 2026
27% of organizations use AI in recruiting, yet only 26% of candidates trust it. Adoption, AI interviews, fraud, bias studies,…
Cost of Offshore Recruitment in 2026: What Employers Pay
What it costs to recruit and employ staff offshore in 2026: job board and assessment prices in India and the…
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Top 10 Countries With the Highest Software Engineer Salaries [2026]
The US pays software engineers the most, a median $154,765 in Stack Overflow's 2025 survey, followed by Switzerland ($142,592) and…
Tech Layoffs Statistics 2026: How Many, Who, and Why
layoffs.fyi counts 128,536 tech employees laid off at 299 companies by September 10, 2026, already more than all of 2025.…
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Top 10 AI Recruitment Tools Cost Comparison [2026]
Manatal, Zoho Recruit, Greenhouse, Juicebox, Fetcher, Workable, Ashby, BambooHR, SmartRecruiters and HireVue priced from each vendor's own page in September…
AI in the Workplace Statistics and Trends for 2026
52% of US employees now use AI at work and 30% use it weekly, but the productivity gain tracks breadth…
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10 Best Headhunting Agencies in the Philippines [2026]
The ten executive search firms worth shortlisting for senior hiring in the Philippines, what each is genuinely strong at, and…
Indonesia Payroll, Benefits and Tax Regulations in 2026
Indonesia's BPJS contributions look light at about 9% of salary, and that number misleads. THR, the religious holiday allowance, is…
Vietnam Payroll, Benefits and Tax Regulations in 2026
Employers add 23.5% to gross salary in Vietnam and employees give up 10.5%, both capped at a VND 46.8 million…
How to Use AI to Source Top Talent: A No Bullshit Guide
AI is good at recall and bad at judgment. A six-step sourcing workflow: write the scorecard first, point AI at…
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