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10/22/2026

Truckstop needed more engineering capacity without increasing its US headcount.

Second Talent helped them hire eight engineers in Vietnam across data, full-stack and mobile roles, filling all five requisitions within 83 days.

That's what an APAC hiring strategy can look like when you need to add capacity without waiting months to build the team.

Read the case study: https://www.secondtalent.com/case-study/truckstop/

10/20/2026

Hiring developers in APAC isn't just about paying less.

There are three practical reasons companies keep looking at the region.

Lower engineering costs. Faster access to talent. And large technical talent pools already working with the technologies companies are hiring for today.

The numbers make the difference pretty clear. Full benchmarks in our Asia Tech Salary Index:
https://www.secondtalent.com/asia-tech-salary-index/

10/15/2026

Singapore's tech ecosystem is getting bigger than AI.

SWITCH 2026 (27-29 October) brings together 25,000+ attendees, 400+ startups and exhibitors, and 30+ global pavilions across AI, quantum, robotics, and deep tech.

For anyone watching where technology and investment are moving across Asia, it's one event worth keeping an eye on this October.

10/13/2026

Some software controls a spreadsheet. Some software controls a factory. The second one comes with a very different set of consequences when something goes wrong.

That is why industrial cybersecurity is becoming a bigger concern as operational technology becomes more connected to modern software environments.

Singapore's cybersecurity community will be discussing this and related topics around AI, OT security, and the cyber workforce this month.

10/08/2026

India's IT hiring numbers present an irony. Overall IT recruitment fell 3% in June 2026. AI hiring in the IT sector grew 16%, while AI/ML job listings across 14 sectors were up 25% (Naukri JobSpeak, June 2026).

The shift is happening alongside a broader change in the kind of technical work companies need done.

With the World AI Summit coming to Bengaluru this October, it's a good time to look at what AI adoption is doing to India's workforce, beyond the headlines about AI replacing jobs.

10/06/2026

Space has rockets. Satellites. Launch systems. It also has a lot of software.

Software developers are the largest occupation in the US private-sector space economy, which employed more than 373,000 workers in 2023 (BEA). India is building quickly too, with around 440 registered space startups and a space economy worth roughly $9B as of August 2026.

As space technology gets more sophisticated, the talent behind it is becoming increasingly software-heavy.

09/30/2026

Second Talent’s 2026 Asia Tech Salary Index tracked senior AI engineer pay across 8 Asian markets against Silicon Valley. China’s numbers moved the most: Beijing, Shenzhen and Hangzhou grew 38 to 42% year over year as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance bid against each other for the same small pool of senior talent. That closed the Silicon Valley gap to 15 to 20%.

Southeast Asia moved differently. Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia grew 18 to 21%, and still sit 60 to 70% below Silicon Valley pay at the same seniority. A 5-person team costs $725K a year in the Bay Area. The same team costs $210K in Ho Chi Minh City, or $185K in Manila.

Full benchmarks in the 2026 Asia Tech Salary Index:
https://www.secondtalent.com/asia-tech-salary-index/

09/28/2026

Hiring slows down on paper every Q4 and speeds up everywhere else.

Budgets get used before they expire. Fewer companies are posting, so the ones that are stand out.

Here is what is really happening with Q4 hiring, and why waiting until January can cost you the stronger candidate pool.

09/24/2026

Mixcare Health needed to expand into Vietnam and Malaysia without slowing down. Second Talent sourced and pre-vetted the team. Five hires and two new markets later, business efficiency was up 70%.

Here is how it happened.

https://www.secondtalent.com/case-study/mixcare-health/

09/22/2026

Job listings still lead with Python and machine learning. But talk to engineers actually building AI products, and they will tell you the skills above are what decide whether something survives contact with real users.

Here is why each one matters to the companies hiring for it.

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