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Why is January the Best Time to Find a Job?

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January 2020 – Is the Best Time to Find a Job

During the Christmas period it can be a struggle to search for a new job, but once that’s over it is a brand-new year, and some say it is the perfect opportunity to find a new career. January has been classed as the hunting season when it comes to finding a new job. So, if you are one of those people that has ‘find a new job’ on their New year’s resolution list then listed below are some reasons why January is the perfect month to job hunt and what you can do to prepare yourself.

Why is it the best month?

Employers are looking for new employees

In the New Year employers are feeling motivational and are eager to see what talent they can employ. They have a clearer mindset at this time of the year as they are less likely to be tied down to deadlines and projects. As January is the month for job hunting, there is a lot more competition for employers to choose from. Having a greater talent pool will enable employers to choose carefully resulting in a greater chance of your CV needing to impress them.

New budgets

The first few months of the year are normally the best times to apply for new jobs. Many job deadlines close at the end of January, so it allows for candidates plenty of time to apply within the New Year. Employers are also given a new budget at the start of every year, so this gives candidates a better chance at finding a new job and being hired. The salary is the main factor a candidate will look at when applying for a new job, so linking this with a company’s new budgets may mean the company will have more money to give to candidates.

What you can do to prepare yourself

Update your CV

When applying for new job in January it is essential that you keep your CV updated to keep track of your most recent skills and progression. Your CV is the first thing an employer will look at and it is your chance to stand out from the crowd, therefore making it a crucial factor when you are trying to start a new career. The key areas of your CV that you will need to keep updated are:

  • Your skills (technical and soft)
  • Employment history
  • Work experience
  • Qualifications

Once you have updated your CV it is important for you to understand exactly what job you are looking for. Applying for jobs you are marginally interested in will not benefit you in the future as this will impact your engagement, performance and success. Instead of applying for any job, try and find roles that you are passionate about and perhaps create a list that aligns with your personality, skills and interests. From this you are able to understand what companies you want to apply for and why.

You can also register with a recruitment agency that specialise in your area of interest and skills. Having a professional confidant in the industry can help you find jobs that may not be advertised on generic job boards.

 

Practice interview answers

For some it may have been a while since you have been interviewed and therefore it will be beneficial to practice some generic interview questions. If you have been invited for an interview, do not wait until the night before to go through potential interview questions, you should start preparing as soon as you can. The majority of employers will always start with questions about yourself such as ‘Tell me about yourself’ or ‘What do you do in your spare time’. Following this they may ask you some competency questions which are based on your previous experience and certain situations you may have found yourself in. Competency based interview questions are a good way of an employer finding out how you would handle certain situations if they were ever to arise, and this can say a lot about you. It is also a good idea to know what you are looking for from the jobs you have applied for. This way if you are asked during the interview process, you can answer in a matter of seconds.

Some companies will have a long interview process which can last a few months, whereas other companies may invite you in for an interview within the next week. Therefore, you should always be prepared and have an interview outfit ready, so you feel well equipped for when the day comes. You can check out other interview hint and tips here: https://www.digiskills.agency/interview-hints-tips/

 

Update your social presence

Although your CV and cover letter will be the first documents an employer will look at, it is also beneficial to keep your social channels up to date. Recruiters may look at your LinkedIn for example to see if your experience matches up with your experience on your CV. More employers are using LinkedIn and may want to view your profile before calling you. You should ensure that you have a professional photo on your profile, your work experience is up to date and you have the relevant skills listed as this can be a decider for some employers.

 

Good luck! We wish you the best in achieving your career goals this year, and hope you’ll be in touch with us if you’re looking for a change so we can help.

Just Eat has announced it is recruiting to fill 150 Technology Jobs

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Online food marketplace Just Eat has announced it is recruiting to fill 150 technology roles, 80 of which have been recently created

The new roles are spread between the two Just Eat technology centres in London and Bristol.  This is the firm’s biggest search for talent in the last three years.

Fernando Fanton, chief product and technology officer, said that the firm’s data and technology is absolutely vital to maintain its service to its 22.8 million customers and more than 87,500 restaurant partners.

Adding an additional 150 people to the team that creates the firm’s digital experiences, such as its mobile application, is Just Eat’s way of “turbo-charging” its existing efforts to develop its customer and application experiences, according to Fanton.

“We are constantly looking for ways to push technology boundaries, and we look forward to bringing even more highly skilled and talented individuals to our world-class team as we continue our mission to create the world’s greatest food community,” he said.

Just Eat has been on top of digital advancements over the past year and has been trialling and implementing many types of “food tech”, from launching an application that can be used for Amazon Alexa and Apple TV, to trialling the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) on its consumer side for browsing menus and also on the restaurant/partner side for data visualisation and insight.

The 150 vacancies are on all levels, from entry level to experience management, and include roles such as associate engineers, principal engineers and technology managers.

The additional team members will help Just Eat to provide an overall better customer experience, all-important in a digital world where customers are fickle with their choice of brands and services.

Just Eat has already hired more than 200 engineers, developers and data scientists in the past 18 months, amounting to 650 technology professionals across the UK once the new 150 roles have been filled.

The company benefits are also hugely desirable including a £1,000 training budget, as well as five extra paid holiday days for job-related training, their own choice of hardware and quarterly hackathons. The retention rate in the firm’s Bristol technology centre alone is 92 per cent.

If you are searching for a new tech job in your area, please get in touch with one of our Tech Consultants now. We have lots of great jobs available with a range of different businesses. You may not live close to London or Bristol but we can certainly ensure your are given the best possible options for your career goals and location.

 

 

 

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Free Digital Skills Summer Camp – Girls aged 15-19

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Belfast I.T Girls – Digital Skills Summer Camp

What will you do?

  • Develop your creative, social and business skills
  • Learn how to develop Games
  • Develop websites using HTML5 & CSS3
  • Create digital content
  • Meet, chat and learn from females in the IT & Digital industries
  • …and more!
This 1 week programme is FREE and open to girls aged 15-19

If you are interested you’ll need to book a ticket below to attend. Should there be no tickets available please add yourself to the waiting list and you will be contacted if a place frees up.

Mon 6th August - Friday 10th August 2018
Belfast Metropolitan College
Titanic Quarter Campus
9.30am - 4.30pm

IT Jobs in Digital Transformation & Innovation

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IT Jobs in Digital Transformation and Innovation

Sinead Dillon, Principal Consultant at Fujitsu shares her journey!

Despite keen childhood interest in computing, at school Sinead Dillon was initially drawn towards a career in business or banking. She studied for an accountancy degree at Ulster University and completed her chartered management accountancy qualifications while at the Kerry Group food company.

Her transition into IT began when she moved into a role that combined accounting with financial systems support, and later joined global technology company Fujitsu as a financial systems implementation consultant. She then bolstered her practical on-the-job experience with a Master’s degree in Computing and Information Systems.

Today, Sinead is Principal Consultant for digital transformation and innovation at Fujitsu in Belfast.

“My role is focused on addressing customers’ needs, the role of digital in the business and, how our solutions can adapt to fit customer requirements across Northern Ireland, as well as looking at how new technology and innovative products can help to deliver services.”

Describing herself as “a people person” Sinead explains that “working with different people and collaborating with different teams and organisations was very attractive to me, and in a business context I enjoy problem solving and delivering services.”

Over the years, she has moved from ERP implementations to project management and business development, and now works at the heart of Fujitsu’s innovation and digital transformation programme for business across NI. Sinead recognises that digital transformation is changing the world of work through emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, automation and robotics.

“A robotic device as a virtual assistant can allow certain rote and repetitive jobs to be performed highly efficiently in reduced time and improved accuracy. With the human-machine partnership, the  robot automates part of a job while human understanding brings creativity and a wider understanding of the business to the role. The bottom line with Artificial Intelligence is that we want to use it to improve our decision making, efficiency and accuracy.”

Sinead has a passion for encouraging more women to consider a career in IT and technology. She admits that the gender diversity in Fujitsu still has room to improve and the tech sector has been slow to evolve since she joined it more than a decade ago.

“Some job roles within the sector are more attractive to women. At the moment we’re still low in the number of people who are software developers, business analysts and infrastructure solution engineers. It is changing, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement to shift the dial up.”

As an organisation, Fujitsu is tackling diversity head on. A Women’s Business Network has been established and the company’s Gender Goals for 2020 have a vision of making Fujitsu in the UK and Ireland “the place where women come to succeed”. On top of that, the company has a number of mentoring and outreach schemes, an association with the EveryWoman network to access their resources and learning opportunities, as well as a key partnership with Women In Business NI whereby Fujitsu’s female technologists can act as role models, indeed Sinead recently welcomed over 300 delegates to Women in Business’s inaugural ‘Women in Tech’ conference in Belfast. https://syncni.com/event/women-in-tech-conference-2018/1092

Offering advice to those looking to pursue a career in IT, Sinead said:

“As you go through different roles, you learn a lot of new skills and adapt to the challenges that come. Skills are transferable, so be mindful that today’s job will help you in a different one tomorrow. Life-long and continual learning is key. You need to keep interested and keep active in the ever-changing sector.

“There’s a big demand for people who are curious, creative, innovative and can problem-solve. And while the age-old requirements to be hard-working, motivated and focused are probably not on trend, they are still essential!

“So if you have a flair for IT, are a people person, can be adaptable, and bring your own personality and curiosity to the job, you’re in the right industry.”

Sinead also coaches and enjoys mentoring a number of women and young leaders.

“It’s very much a learning experience both for me and the mentee or coachee. It gives an opportunity to get insights into different sectors that I’m not as aware of, to understand people’s challenges and talk about how to address them.

“The key thing is recognising personal successes, and of course the business successes, and making sure that the person achieves what it is they want to achieve. I enjoy the other end where people are happy, and they have overcome a challenge, though through the engagement they may evolve and realise that they won’t end up quite where they originally thought they would be at the outset. So there’s an additional satisfaction when people realise where they really want to be.

“When I talk to young people I advocate that IT is an exciting career with a lot of opportunities. There are so many different pathways that they you can go down and a wide variety of roles.  It’s not all purely about coding – that’s just one area – and there’s a variety which can suit individual personal tastes and preferences. It’s very much an open end.

“The skills that they can obtain now, at school and college, will be invaluable for their career: problem solving, creativity, innovation. Bring that all into the IT world and you’ll have a very exciting career in a world that is continually developing and adapting.”

If you are considering a change of career,  you can check out some of our IT Jobs now. 

 

 

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Midlands Business Merger set to create more IT Jobs!

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A Kent-headquartered cybersecurity services provider has expanded with the acquisition of a Birmingham counterpart to create a £50m-turnover business.

SecureData has taken over Cygnia Technologies for an undisclosed sum, with all of the company’s employees & jobs remaining with the group following the deal.

Cygnia generated sales of approximately £9m in 2016, and operates from offices in Birmingham and Central London.

Established in 1992, SecureData provides a range of professional, support and managed cybersecurity services that assess security risk, detect security breaches, protect customer environments and respond to specific security incidents. The company is headquartered in Maidstone with a second office in London.

Executive chairman Ian Brown said: “The enhanced group is now clearly positioned as one of the leading independent cybersecurity services businesses throughout the UK and selected overseas markets.

“With over 210 employees including 150 cybersecurity engineers, analysts and consultants the group is well positioned to provide business customers with a one-stop shop service for all their cybersecurity needs.” The merger will create lots of new IT jobs within the Midlands and surrounding areas.

Jon Busfield, managing director at Cygnia, added: “The whole Cygnia team is excited to be joining SecureData. With an enhanced offering as a result of SecureData’s extensive range of professional, support and managed services this is great news for our existing customers, partners and people.”

To view a range of other IT jobs available within the Midlands, Shropshire and surrounding areas, please visit our local featured jobs here. 

 

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Top 50 IT Jobs in the World: 40-36

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IT; just two simple letters which describe a monumental mass of technology related topics, but when the phrase ‘IT Jobs’ is mentioned, just how many IT jobs does this describe?

The precise amount of IT Jobs aren’t exactly known however, more are being created every day with the rapid growth of technology worldwide.

So what are the most popular IT Jobs to date? Every day for the next two weeks, we shall post 5 of the top 50 IT jobs and the pathways to employment. Here are our next 5…

 

40. Promgrammer Analyst

Average Annual Salary (UK): £40,000

Typical responsibilities / skills: design of applications from a high level first – such as by using flowcharts or other graphical views — as well as actual coding of software; testing and maintenance. Specific programming language skills influence salary ranges.

Academic Pathway:

Bachelor’s degree in computers or related field typically required. Similar work experience, technical skills or relevant certification may be considered in place of bachelor’s degree; must maintain awareness of changing technology

 

39. Network Engineer

Average Annual Salary (UK): £30,000

Typical responsibilities / skills: work with a variety of types of networks including LANs, WANs, GANs and MANs; determine network capacity requirements and ensure that the infrastructure can handle it; monitor and administrate the network; troubleshoot problems. Depending on the size of the organization, a person in this role might also setup, install and configure all types of hardware, from servers and printers to desktops and laptops, routers, switches, support internal network users. Non-standard work hours are a possibility.

Academic Pathway:

You may be able to get into network engineering through a computing apprenticeship with an IT company, or within the IT department of a commercial or public organization.  Another possibility is to take an IT course at a local college to learn the skills needed to install and maintain computer networks. Relevant courses include:
Level 2 Diploma in ICT Professional Competence
Level 2 Diploma in ICT Systems Support
Level 2 Certificate/Diploma in ICT Systems and Principles.
These courses include networking options, with units on:
how different systems communicate (protocols) – TCP/IP, FTP, HTTPs, VoIP and Bluetooth
data transmission technologies – ISDN, ASDL, wireless, and ATM
network security – firewalls, anti-virus software and virtual private networks.
You could also take higher education computing qualifications, like a foundation degree, HND or degree.
If you already have qualifications and experience in related areas, for example in IT support, service and repair, you may be able to move into network engineering.

 

38. Wireless Engineer

Average Annual Salary (UK): £27,000

Typical responsibilities / skills: analyze wireless networking and communication requirements; design and develop network infrastructure; capacity planning; recommend system improvements; document necessary processes; develop any necessary software such as drivers; monitor systems use and performance; setup and run wireless network tests. A senior position might lead a team of junior and intermediate engineers.

Academic Pathway:

To be worth of becoming a Wireless Engineer, Knowledge in the fields of the following will place you on the right starting path.

– SOAP

– ASP.NET

– C#

– MySQL

– XML

– ERP

– Dynamics CRM

Most companies also look for a degree within a computer related technology subject.

 

37. Business Continuity Analyst

Average Annual Salary (UK): £30,000

This role is primarily focused on focused on disaster recovery after a crisis with computer systems. Typical responsibilities / skills: develop strategies for disaster prevention and for resuming operations; ensure backup of data for the organization (process-wise); design and implement computer systems that will support continuous operations; interact with vendors when necessary; design and test recovery plans; report risk potential to senior management.

Academic Pathway:

Possessing a bachelor’s degree in business, information management, or computer science is mandatory for business continuity analysts. Most employers also require that applicants hold designations as either a Certified Business Continuity Professional or Master Business Continuity Professional. Interpersonal skills and articulation helps business continuity analysts communicate solutions to managers. Some experience in IT risk analysis also helps before being hired as a business continuity analyst.

 

36. Infrastructure Technical Analyst

Average Annual Salary (UK): £31,000

This role is often focused on an area of expertise within ERP software, or could require broad knowledge, depending on the specific position. ERP use is common in manufacturing companies, hence why backgrounds for this role vary, including information technology or a variety of relevant engineering education, depending on the industry and the organization. Typical responsibilities / skills: understand business operations and how ERP supports them, to be able to develop improvements; interact with various stakeholders; apply continuous improvement principles, processing mapping, and engineering principles; perform troubleshooting.

Academic Pathway:

A bachelor’s degree in a business major, like economics or finance, is required for a career in technical analysis. Some firms may require employees to have Master of Business Administration or master’s degrees in finance. Depending on the college or university, students may be able to choose from different concentrations, like corporate finance and investments. Finance-degree programs usually include courses in accounting, financial statement analysis, investment management, financial modeling, and statistics.

 

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