A delivery decision lands on a CIO's desk perhaps once a month. The business needs a capability it does not have, and there are three ways to get it:
- Build...
The case for the senior IC: why your next tech hire should not be a manager
A team grows past six or seven people, delivery starts to wobble, and the instinct is to hire a manager. It is a reasonable reflex but, increasingly often, it’s the...
Q4 hiring planning: the eight questions every leadership team should answer in September
September is often when hiring plans get made properly. Budgets are revisited, Q4 delivery is confirmed, and the roles that drifted through the summer either get committed to or disappear....
How to write a Statement of Work that actually gets delivered
Most Statements of Work fail before anyone starts delivering. Not dramatically, and not necessarily in a way that shows up in the first month. They fail because the document described...
Hiring for FP&A in an AI-augmented world
Ask a finance director what they want from their next FP&A hire and the answer has shifted noticeably in the past two years.
Modelling ability is assumed. What they are...
Data engineering vs data science: who do you actually need to hire first?
The brief usually arrives the same way. The business wants to do more with AI, the board has asked what the plan is, and the first role signed off is...
The summer hiring myth: why August is the smartest month to make critical hires
Every year, the same thing happens. A role gets signed off in July, the hiring manager looks at the calendar, sees half the interview panel on annual leave, and decides...
Five signs your transformation programme should be SoW, not contract
Programme directors face the "how do we deliver this?" question dozens of times a year. Contract or SoW is one of the most consequential answers, and one most organisations default...
What “cultural fit” means when hiring commercial talent
Ask ten hiring managers what "cultural fit" means, and you'll get ten different answers. Ask how they assess it, and you'll usually get "you know it when you see it."...
Cybersecurity hiring: why the skills you need most are the hardest to verify
Every CISO says the same thing about hiring. Application volume is high. Shortlist quality isn't.
UK cyber employment sits at around 143,000 people and rising. The workforce gap is around...
The hidden cost of a bad hire: what 12 months of post-placement data tells us
Ask most CFOs what a bad hire costs the business. You'll get one of two answers: "we don't measure it," or "we do, but only the obvious parts."
The visible...
