Blockchain technology: crypto craze or foundation for the future?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, you can’t help but have heard about blockchain technology. Fortunes have been made and lost with Bitcoin – the first currency built using the technology. Hospitals have shown interest in the technology for storing patient records. Even Warren Buffet has made his bet…
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11 questions you should ask at your next interview – for candidates and companies
Where do you see yourself in five years’ time? How many times have you lied when answering this question? It’s an all-too-common interview question that assumes candidates are looking for a job to last the long-term. Today, that assumption looks increasingly unrealistic. In tech firms, the average time employees spend in a role…
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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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