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Next Tuesday, Metcalf Hall at BU turns into the biggest AI hiring room in New England. Employer booths, lightning talks from hiring managers on what they actually look for, a panel on how Massachusetts is retraining for AI, and on the spot resume and portfolio reviews.

We will be there the whole four hours, and we would genuinely love to meet you.

Come find us if you are job hunting and want a straight answer about what the AI contract market pays right now.

Come find us if you are in TA and want to compare notes on screening for these roles.

Come find us if you are hiring and stuck, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right help.

And if none of those are you but you just want to talk about what is happening in Boston tech right now, that works too. That is half of why we go to these things.

Free for job seekers and students, but you do need to register, and rooms like this fill up:
https://hubs.li/Q04xmxwk0

Tuesday, September 29, 1:00 to 5:00 PM. Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue.

Want a head start? Our open roles are live here:
https://hubs.li/Q04xmylD0

This week's Hot Jobs span the full lifecycle of how technology gets built, secured, and put to work. From testing and security to data and revenue systems, these teams are looking for professionals who take pride in getting the details right.

If you're a technologist ready for your next engagement, or you know someone who is, we'd love to connect.

🔍 Quality Assurance Analyst
Contract | Hybrid | NJ | QA & Testing
https://hubs.li/Q04x_lRk0

🔐 Security Administrator
Contract | Hybrid | Boston, MA | Network and Infrastructure
https://hubs.li/Q04x_lTG0

📊 Data Analyst/Eng
Contract to Perm | Hybrid | Boston, MA | Data and Business Analytics
https://hubs.li/Q04x_lTM0

💻 CPQ Developer
Contract to Perm | Remote | Software Development
https://hubs.li/Q04x_lPj0

Two of these roles offer a path to a permanent position, a great fit for anyone looking to grow with an organization over the long term. Our recruiters take the time to understand what you're looking for so the match works for everyone.

Explore all open roles at https://hubs.li/Q04x_l-H0

Threat hunting is often confused with alert monitoring or incident response.

A true threat hunter proactively searches for evidence of attacker activity that existing controls have not already identified. The role requires curiosity, hypothesis-driven investigation and the ability to work across endpoint, network, identity and threat-intelligence data.

Hiring managers should evaluate how candidates form a hunting hypothesis, identify relevant evidence and turn findings into stronger detection capabilities.

Tool familiarity matters, but it is not the whole role. The strongest candidates can explain their investigative reasoning—not simply the platforms they have used.

Read the threat-hunter hiring guide:
https://hubs.li/Q04sb1Vz0

The hardest AI hire is not your first one. It is your third and fourth.

The first one is usually someone you already knew, or someone a friend pointed you to. Then the pilot turns into a product, the roadmap doubles, and suddenly you need an MLOps engineer, a data engineer who gets your pipeline, and someone to own evaluation. All at once. All specialized. All wanted by everybody else.

That is where most teams hit the wall, and it is never for lack of trying.

If that is you right now, come talk to us on September 29 at the AI in Massachusetts Career Fair. We would love to hear what you are building. And if we can help, we will tell you. If we cannot, we will tell you that too.

This is the whole reason we developed our PRECISE Talent Blueprint. Getting these hires right the first time matters way too much to leave to luck.

Tuesday, September 29, 1:00 to 5:00 PM, Metcalf Hall at BU:
https://hubs.li/Q04xmwxQ0

An invitation for talent acquisition leaders and recruiters in Massachusetts.

On September 29 we will be at the AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair at BU. If you are in TA and AI roles have landed on your desk this year, we would like to talk with you there.

Specifically, here is what we can put on the table:

How we screen for AI and ML roles when the resume signals are unreliable, including the questions that separate someone who has deployed a model from someone who has trained one.

What the Massachusetts market is actually paying for these roles right now, contract and permanent, so you have something to benchmark a req against.

Where AI job descriptions tend to go wrong before they ever reach a candidate, and what we ask hiring managers to clarify before we open a search.

Which of these roles are realistically fillable in your timeline and which ones are not, which is often the more useful conversation.

We would also like to hear what is working on your side. Internal teams are solving parts of this that agencies do not see, and we learn as much from these conversations as we contribute to them.

Tuesday, September 29, 1:00 to 5:00 PM

Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd floor

Registration details for the fair:
https://hubs.li/Q04xmvtS0

ERP migrations rarely fail because an organization forgot to hire a system administrator.

The greater risk is overlooking the less-visible roles responsible for data quality, integrations, testing, change management, security and business-process alignment.
Team sequencing matters, too. Bringing critical specialists in too late can create rework, delay testing and leave business teams unprepared for adoption.

Before beginning a migration, map the complete lifecycle—from discovery and data preparation through implementation, testing, training and post-launch support. Then align each phase with the expertise it requires.

See the roles and sequencing considerations that are frequently missed:
https://hubs.li/Q04sb8770

Please join us in welcoming Cal to Overture Partners.

Cal joins us to help our clients match the right IT talent and curtal fit to open roles, and he comes to the role from IT recruiting, which means he already knows what actually makes a placement work. Market insight. Precise candidate targeting. Culture fit that holds up long after the start date.

He built his career on relationships, referrals, and open dialogue, for better or worse. That is a rare thing to say out loud in this industry, and it is exactly the kind of honesty our clients count on when a search gets complicated.

When we asked why Overture, his answer lined up with the thing we care about most. The goal is to make hiring as easy as possible for the people doing it. Quality over quantity. The right candidate, not the "close enough" candidate.

Outside of work, Cal is a serious chess player with a 1750 rating on https://hubs.li/Q04xmntT0, earned over years of steady play. His read on it: progress is a result of time and effort, and if you cannot see the full picture, you will be completely lost.

Reasonable advice for a chess board. Better advice for a hiring process.

Welcome to the team, Cal. We are glad you are here.

Great technology teams are built one right fit at a time, and this week we're helping Boston-area organizations find exactly that.

Security is a clear theme in our current openings, with two cybersecurity roles supporting teams that are investing in infrastructure resilience and protection. We're also partnering on a senior leadership search and a data engineering role for an organization turning its data into better decisions.

🔹 Automation Engineer | Contract | Remote (Boston, MA) | Cybersecurity
https://hubs.li/Q04xGpq30

🔹 Security Administrator | Contract to Hire | Hybrid (Boston, MA) | Cybersecurity
https://hubs.li/Q04xGpv10

🔹 Vice President / CIO | Permanent Placement | Hybrid (Boston, MA) | Project and Program Management
https://hubs.li/Q04xGphD0

🔹 Senior Power BI/Data Engineer | Contract to Hire | Hybrid (Boston, MA) | Data and Business Analytics
https://hubs.li/Q04xGpqX0

If one of these sounds like your next step, or someone in your network comes to mind, we'd love to connect. Explore all open roles at https://hubs.li/Q04xGprV0.

An invitation for AI, ML, and data engineers in the Boston area.

On September 29 we will be at the AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair at BU. We would like you to come talk with us.

Here is what we can actually tell you, in specifics, not generalities:

What contract and contract-to-hire AI roles are paying in this market right now.

Which kinds of engagements tend to convert to full time and which ones do not.

What hiring managers are screening for when they say they need MLOps or production model experience, and where most candidates lose them.

Which companies in Massachusetts are actually building versus which ones are still running pilots.

We place this talent every week, so we see the numbers and the patterns before they show up in a salary report. If any of that is useful to you, we are glad to share it. There is no cost to you and no obligation, whether or not you ever work with us.

Tuesday, September 29, 1:00 to 5:00 PM

Metcalf Hall, George Sherman Union, Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd floor

Free for job seekers and students with advance registration:
https://hubs.li/Q04xmr6R0

Technical capability does not always transfer cleanly into a regulated environment.

An engineer may know the platform but still need months to understand the data, controls, documentation standards and operational constraints of healthcare, insurance, financial services, government or higher education.

That does not mean every candidate must come from the same industry. It does mean hiring teams should identify which domain knowledge is essential on day one and which knowledge can realistically be learned.

The strongest evaluation process considers technical depth and regulated-industry context independently rather than assuming one guarantees the other.

Read the hiring guide:
https://hubs.li/Q04sbbNF0