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 day...

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...

Is now the time to rethink how you recruit specialist IT talent?Are your candidates getting profiled by people who have never performed that role? Do you feel that all your recruiters appear to be using the same CV databases? Are you forking out upfront fees with no guarantee of ...

I had a very interesting email exchange with a Director of HR this week about how the talent management lifecycle is becoming increasingly difficult to control.Among the key challenges, she told me, is the ever-accelerating rate of change in technology. IT is altering all aspects...

Businesses that are reliant on IT need to pay special attention to their recruitment and retention strategies in 2018 as a recent survey suggests that a third (32%) of IT professionals hope to switch jobs within the next 12 months.Given that just about every business is now relia...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Access Talent! We hope you enjoy reading our blogs and posts and we look forward to sharing many more with you in 2018.We’ll be back on 2nd January with a great year of articles ahead.In the meantime, if you’re missing our blog...