So I was watching Love Island and, like, apart from noticing, like, how many times the contestants, like, say, "like" in every sentence, it dawned on me how much IT Recruitment can learn from it. Run with me! 1 - Don't Be Fooled By The Spray Tan! I wonder how long the contestants...

“If you can win the war in talent, everything else changes,” so said SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia describing how he believes "recruiting is a mission-critical function" for a business, not a task that you should crowbar into your busy day after all your other tasks have been cros...

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 “n...

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...