Ask the industry: What are the biggest challenges and opportunities for the IT sector in 2018?
The UK IT recruitment market surged in 2017, outpacing the slow growth of the wider service sector to jump 22% in May alone. Prospects for cyber security, digital technology and IT professionals and businesses look good for 2018. But what are the key opportunities and challenges teams will face in the twelve months ahead? …
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COMPETITION LAUNCHES TO CROWN UK’S MOST CYBER-SAVVY GIRLS
YOUNG girls from across the country will pit their codebreaking skills against one another in a series of head-scratching online challenges to crown the UK’s brightest cyber minds. Registration for the online phase of the 2018 CyberFirst Girls Competition, run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, opens today [Tuesday, 16…
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Case study: From candidate to client – Neil Cook, Head of IT at Autoglass®
identifi helped match Neil with his role of Head of IT at Autoglass® – in early 2017. Neil’s recruitment experience with identifi was more personable, reassuring and collaborative than with the other recruiters he’d worked with previously. So it was only natural that when he was ready to recruit for his new team,…
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EXCLUSIVE: Santa’s CV revealed
OK, so, we shouldn’t really be doing this because our candidate CVs are highly classified and we treat data security with utmost respect BUT…it’s Christmas, and this is the gift that keeps giving. We were trawling through our filing cabinets the other day, looking for a contract, and this beaut fell out from behind one…
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5 New Year’s resolutions for the recruitment industry
Recruitment is easy to do badly – and it’s being done increasingly badly. According to a report by Clearly PR, 4,529 new recruitment businesses opened in 2016, and another 900 joined them in the first month of 2017 alone. As Forbes contributor Liz Ryan puts it, anyone who collects CVs and shares them with contacts…
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Scaling up recruitment, cutting time to hire by 70%: Autoglass BodyRepair Case Study
How do you scale up Auto Technician recruitment to find skilled talent on a countrywide basis, without losing control of the process? That was the challenge facing Patrick Dignan, Customer Experience Director at Autoglass BodyRepair. As part of the business’ drive to consolidate Autoglass BodyRepair’s position as go-to choice for UK vehicle repairs, Patrick and…
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