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How To Hire A Team of Developers? A Comprehensive Guide

Hire A Team of Developers
Mobile app development is in a better demand place than it has been ever. And this has nothing to do with the pandemic world. Either pandemic or no pandemic, people need mobile applications for easing their daily lives.

This is the reason why from startups to large-scale businesses, every business is trying to develop a well-designed, feature-rich, and robust mobile application for their business upliftment. No wonder that in the current market well-built mobile apps have a great chance at bringing businesses with a huge customer base, increased profits, etc.,

In order to develop an engaging mobile app, there are so many challenges that have to be faced by businesses. Among all of them, setting up a development team to develop the mobile application is the toughest challenge faced by many businesses. App developers in Canada are available for hiring in three different ways. In-house developers, freelancers, and staff augmentation. Let us look into each in detail.

1. Hiring In-house App Developers in Canada

Hiring mobile app developers in Toronto as in-house developers, i.e. hiring them as full-time employees makes them available at the office and as it seems it indeed is convenient for processing the app development.

When to Go For In-house Hiring?
Opt for hiring app developers in Canada as in-house developers when all the following are your business criteria,

Specific work culture
Business with strong employer brand
Highly confidential business and hence in-house developers will be preferable

3 Hiring Phases
To hire in-house app developers in Canada, make sure you follow these three phases.

Planning
This phase is to nail down the number of resources you will need for your business app development, development needs, etc., as per which you can decide the skill sets the hired development team must possess.

Recruitment
Post job opportunities via campaigns, advertisements, referrals, etc., in order to hire potential mobile app developers in Toronto. Post which you can analyze their resume, check their background, conduct assessments, and others.

Selection
This is the phase where according to the performance of the candidate you finalize which developers fit the best for your business app development. Basically, it can be put in four simple and elaborative steps namely,

  • Receive job applications
  • Track applications
  • Interview candidates
  • Paperwork for hiring

Merits of Hiring In-house Developers

  • On-site availability of developers
  • Work culture fitting candidates

Demerits of Hiring In-house Developers

  • Lack of talent
  • Cost of hiring is high
  • Lower developers' retention

2 Hiring Freelancers

Hiring freelancers is to hire individual app developers in Canada through websites such as Freelancer, Upwork, Fiverr, etc. so that the app development process will be carried out independently. As with any other hiring model, hiring freelancers also has its own advantages and disadvantages. Check out if it suits your requirement and then proceed.

When to Go For Hiring Freelancers?
Choose to hire freelance mobile app developers in Toronto when the following are your business criteria,

  • When your app requirements are not complex and easy to understand
  • When you want the development cost and outsourcing cost to be low

Merits of Hiring Freelancers

  • Availability of a large community of talented freelancers
  • Cost-effective outsourcing

Demerits of Hiring Freelancers

  • Lack of commitment
  • Work compliance issues
  • Cannot rely on them 100%

3 Staff Augmentation According to Business Objectives
Staff augmentation is the process of hiring the exact number of developers you need in your app development team for your project from a renowned app development company. They can work for you virtually and you can also combine your in-house developers into the team to satisfy the extended business needs. The best part is there are no possibilities for having demerits in this method of hiring.

Merits of Staff Augmentation
A pool of talent with hundreds of designers and mobile app developers in Toronto app development companies to satisfy your business app development requirements.

  • The payroll costs are reasonable and you can choose from the many engagement models available.
  • The developers already work in an environment that has taught them cooperation, punctuality, etc., and so you need not worry about the same.
  • You can scale the existing team by adding to the development team, resources from your end.

Summing Up
Taking into account all these parameters, merits, and demerits, choose the app developers in Canada in a way that suits your business needs and market needs the best. Comparatively, the staff augmentation hiring model seems pretty efficient and streamlined.

If you are looking to hire mobile app developers in Toronto, then you can connect with Pyramidion Solutions. We are a reputed mobile app development company in Toronto offering extensive hiring models and industry-best mobile app developers. Talk to our experts and get to know more about our services!

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