Predicting job performance is vital, after all, that's the whole point of recruitment. You want to hire someone who will stick around! So, you read what a candidate has written in their CV and you try to make an objective assessment, creating an "identikit" picture in your head b...

"Talent supply remains the number one challenge facing digital tech businesses in the UK", this according to Tech Nation’s 2017 survey. It found that over half (55%) of employers said THIS was their main business challenge.  According to Robert Half, the tech talent shortage is “...

Have you ever hired a new team member who interviewed brilliantly, had exactly the qualifications you were looking for and on paper had the right experience listed on their CV ... but somehow just didn't fit in? It happens a lot. Making the perfect hire is like putting together a...

Sat on a train, I overheard a refreshing view on IT recruitment this week. I was trying not to listen to the conversation the chap opposite was having with his office, but you know how it is!? The man mentioned IT Project Management and was discussing a strategic hire that his fi...

Interviewing an IT Project Management candidate this week, one of my colleagues heard an answer to one of those 'standard interview questions' that made us all think. The question was ... "Where do you see yourself in five years?" The answer was ... "I have no idea!" Back in the ...

I recently wrote an article for Access Talent's sister company Stoneseed, about the potential impending rollout of IR35 rules to the Private Sector and how it will impact IT Project resourcing. Since then I have had a number of requests for my predictions about what this might al...