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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.
Meet Our New Mission Critical Team Member – Steve
Our Mission Critical Data Centre division continues to expand its global outreach, exploring new markets and creating deeper talent networks within our existing specialisms. We are proud to welcome our new Senior Recruitment Consultant, Steve Gibbins.
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Ben
We’re excited to welcome our new Client Solutions Lead, Ben Walsh. Ben recognised our purpose of Empowering Sustainable Growth as an opportunity to work in an environment that supports clients and candidates in reaching their sustainability goals as well as an opportunity to develop his Recruitment career.
Adding Ben’s Recruitment experience and market knowledge to a highly potential UK Tech team is a very exciting prospect at Insight.
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Harry
Meet Harry Higginson our new Product & Business Change Recruitment Consultant. Harry has fitted perfectly into the Insight family, working alongside our Practice Lead Will Plant to help reach new heights in the Product & Business Change market. Although relatively new to the recruitment industry, he has displayed many skills to become a successful recruiter such as being accountable, collaborative and data focused.
We are proud he chose to begin his recruitment career with us, and we look forward to supporting his continuous growth and sharing his achievements at Insight.
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.
Are We Moving Towards A Post-COVID Hydrogen-Based Economy?
It’s estimated that Global hydrogen production will double by 2030 due to sustainability targets. The abundance of RES in the UK means that we are primed to scale hydrogen technology solutions and infrastructure.
Combatting poverty this Christmas
An Insight into Mustard Tree our Charity PartnerThis year has been tough for everyone, however, the pandemic has affected the most vulnerable in our society most strongly. Mustard Tree has noted that in covering demand, their food costs have increased from £4,000 a...
Tech Startups Prove Agile Employers During COVID Jobs Crisis
The Tech sector has proven to be resilient, even heralded as a saviour of certain industries, which in the move to digital solutions, workarounds and alternatives, has enabled the continuation of business which would have ordinarily suffered as a result of lockdown restrictions.
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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