Senior IT professionals straddle two worlds – technology and business. They must be as adept as technologists as they are as entrepreneurs. Would adding the letters M-B-A after your name...
International Women’s Day – Sexism in IT
Having just celebrated International Women’s Day yesterday, it’s time to focus on the state of gender equality in the UK tech industry. And, the truth is, that though there may...
IR35 Reforms: How will the changes affect you?
Despite pressure from many professional bodies on the new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to suspend the roll out of the off-payroll working rules (commonly known as IR35), into the private sector...
So You’ve Bagged Top IT Talent – Now How Do You Keep Them?
In case you haven’t heard – and we’ve been banging on about it enough that you certainly should have – there’s a war for talent happening in most sectors in...
Qualifications Vs Experience: Which Is Most Important in Tech Recruitment?
In an ideal world, your job spec for your next hire would call for a highly-skilled, diversely-experienced candidate with an impressive set of qualifications and a string of letters after...
Full Stack Developers: The Future is T-shaped
Nothing in the tech sector stays static for long. The skills and employment landscape is continually evolving, but there is one role that is consistently on the up and up...
Tech Skills Might Land You a Job, But Soft Skills Will Help You Climb The Career Ladder
Some job specs can read like a child’s slightly over-optimistic letter to Santa. Even the most experienced technologists would struggle to fully live up to the expectations of employers, who...
Flexibility vs Security: Define Your Priorities When Choosing Between a Contract or Permanent Role
With rapid technological advancement, the technology recruitment landscape is in a constant state of flux. The requirements and expectations of personnel is already diverse and there’s an increasing range of...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words in a Candidate’s Market
It’s no secret that we are facing a job-rich and candidate-short market. At least it shouldn’t be a secret. So why is it that some employers haven’t got the message?...
Grow Your Own Talent: How Employers Can Work Around the IT Skills Shortage
As we mentioned in a previous article about how Brexit will impact the UK IT jobs market (and we still don’t have any kind of resolution on that) there is a...
All Grown Up: Generation Z Has Arrived, and Tech Employers Must Adapt to Attract Them
Although most of Generation Z are at school, and some are still even in pull-ups, the eldest amongst them have now left university and are becoming second-jobbers.
In fact, that...
