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Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Megan
Here at Insight Recruitment, we're excited to further grow our UK Tech team as we aim to explore new markets. Megan Valentine joins the Insight family in the position of Recruitment Consultant.About Megan: As a Recruitment Consultant at Insight, I specialise in the...
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Emily
Here at Insight Recruitment, we’re excited to further grow our UK Tech team as we aim to explore new markets. Emily Reed joins the Insight family in the position of Recruitment Consultant.
LOOKING FOR A ROLE IN TECH? HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST IN-DEMAND TECH JOBS FOR 2022 AND HOW TO GET A COMPETITIVE EDGE
The tech recruitment industry has exploded over the last year with a noticeable increase in open vacancies since 2020. According to the Tech Nation Jobs & Skills Report 2021, demand for tech jobs in summer of 2021 was a huge 42% higher than before the pandemic....
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Robert
Meet Robert Milarvie our new Delivery Consultant, specialising in the PHP and WordPress Development Market. Rob has shown a great understanding of our values and purpose at Insight as he aims to collaborate with his Tech team members and continually seeks knowledge within his market.
Meet Our New Support Team Member – Leanne
Meet Leanne May our new Business Operations Director. Leanne will be working with our Business Support Team and Recruitment Consultants to improve the efficiency of business processes across the office and support the strategic alignment of business operations between each practice.
With over 10 years of experience in the Recruitment industry, we are delighted she chose to take the next step in her career at Insight.
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Oliver
Meet Oliver Bentley, who has recently joined our Tech team as a PHP Recruitment Consultant. Oliver has shown a great understanding of our values and purpose at Insight with an innovative and target-driven attitude towards all his work so far. Although new to the Recruitment industry, he shows a real passion for career growth and adopts a recruitment service based on building lasting relationships with all his clients.
We’re incredibly proud he chose to start his recruitment career with us, and we look forward to supporting and sharing his future success.
Let’s Get Inclusive Spotlights: Mel Venner
ABOUT MEL: Combining a background in neuroscience with an international recruitment career, Mel has been able to innovate the way people “learn” in workplaces all over the world. She is the Founder of Instinct Performance a company that provides Sales, Leadership,...
An Insight Into Mental Health Tech
Amid funding shortages and an explosion in demand for mental health care, experts have noted technology has to potential to bridge gaps in access to services, improve the quality of care and deliver personalised treatments, all while helping to alleviate the pressures on traditional healthcare systems. In support of Mental Health Awareness Week, we explore the world of Mental Health Tech, highlighting our top five apps in the market with ORCHA scores of above 70%
Let’s Get Inclusive Spotlights: Rachel Wallace
Rachel Wallace is a Robotics Automation Engineering Manager at HighRes Biosolutions. Enabling a department of Automation and Liquid Handling Engineers that write code and deploy integrated robotics systems that helps labs and pharma test for Covid-19 and other experiments faster, more consistently, and in an automated fashion. She has over a decade’s experience within management positions at a variety of engineering and tech companies and is passionate about diversity and inclusion within these spaces.
Health-Tech in the Hot Seat: Is innovation set to continue post-pandemic?
Heightened by the pandemic, digital advances and new technology are continuing to revolutionise healthcare. In 2020, global venture capital investment for healthtech innovators reached its highest figure to date ($14 billion), with nearly two-thirds of total funding Series C and above. There are now over 3,000 health-tech start-ups and scale-ups within the UK, with 400 of these companies recording high growth (over 20% annually).
The War on Video
There’s no questioning that virtual conferencing and video-based services have been critical to business continuity throughout the course of the pandemic. However, with the abundance of video across are we entering a new wave of video-platform fatigue?
The UK’s New Decarbonisation Strategy
The UK government has announced a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, setting out its vision to create a low-carbon industrial sector and dramatically slash emissions from public buildings. It has called the strategy “an ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector”, promising over £1 billion in funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals.
Celebrating Women in Engineering
The underrepresentation of women in Engineering is a global issue that has proven hard to address. Whilst the industry has come a long way in terms of equality and the statistics in terms of women in STEM-related higher education, the employment of female engineers, and the number of women achieving management or high-level leadership positions is on the rise. Constant pressure is needed to effect real systemic and cultural change.
Tech for Good: the future of positive change
Tech for Good companies are successfully carving out a new niche within the industry. In an increasingly woke society, people are prepared to engage in difficult discussions and catapult injustices into the mainstream. Tech is being used to amplify messages and find creative solutions to everyday, systemic and global problems.
Our Growth
Here at Insight Recruitment, we’ve been delighted to strengthen our team by making some strategic hires at the beginning of 2021!
The Rise of the Sustainable Data Centre
Data Centres have been crucial to the survival of many businesses during the pandemic. However, as large consumers of resources, from energy consumption to water usage, Data Centres will be put under the microscope when it comes to sustainability moving forwards.
Let’s Get Inclusive Spotlights: Alisa Stratulat
Alisa Stratulat is an award-winning, innovative and goal-oriented Technology Manager with 7+ years of industrial experience in R&D, project delivery, product management and technical marketing. She is part of the Top 50 Women in Engineering List 2020, has authored and co-authored publications and scientific articles, and has extensive experience developing and improving in-house products that have led to 12 granted patents and applications and one EU innovation award.
Let’s Get Inclusive – Our Pledge on joining the TTC
We’re delighted to announce that Insight Recruitment is an official signatory of the Tech Talent Charter! As a specialist recruitment agency, Insight is aware that equality is important in terms of creating a positive culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Insight Into a Thriving FinTech Industry
FinTech is a thriving industry which is proving nothing short of revolutionary. New disruptors have encouraged the relatively traditional Financial Services market to adapt and embrace change by providing innovative solutions to everyday issues and digitalising customer experience.
Empowering Sustainable Growth…
Insight Into… What Sets Us Apart From Other Agencies
Insight Into… Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent in Digital in the North
Insight Into Volume 4: Innovation Panel Talk
Paul Wilshaw Head of Innovation at Barclays on Innovation
Understanding People…
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