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We’ve been waiting for the doom and gloom industry to start affecting the job market for some time now. Whilst the market for hiring tends to be some way behind other aspects of the economy, the warning signs are starting to come out of the recruitment industry, it seems.
There have been several recent reports […]

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There’s a really interesting article on The Register this week.
The general gist it seems is that a variety of surveys suggest that there is some doom and gloom spreading into the IT jobs marketplace. Job numbers are down, and salaries seem to be moving nowhere - particularly amongst software development roles.
Also, there has […]

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Games, Games, Games, it’s all we’re talking about this week - or so it seems…
We wanted to pledge our support for the Games Up? campaign, which aims to ensure that the gaming industry in the UK receives enough support to keep growing.
Now let’s be honest here for a minute: the Games industry gets an awful […]

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We’re not normally that interested in the various ways in which the Recruitment industry dishes out awards to itself. That’s why, frankly, we couldn’t be bothered even mentioning the Recruiter Awards for Excellence this year. We can tell you that lots of awards were won by some companies. Great.
However, there’s an […]

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We’ve had quite a few enquiries about the difficulties of obtaining UK work permits recently - and we’ve promised to post some information relevant to those who are interested.
Despite the widespread myth that immigration is a “problem” in the UK, and that - for some reason - people come to the UK purely […]

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China isn’t for the faint hearted, and as our former MD, Michael Wright is soon to leave UK shores for the Far East we are writing a series of articles to ease the tension he’s feeling and actually validate his thinking about why setting up in China is a good thing.
Dateline 2007, January: A […]

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When we started the blog, we PROMISED we wouldn’t post job adverts up here. But this one is just too pertinent to blogging in general the we couldn’t help ourselves….if you’re interested, mail us at contact@idealpeople.net for more information.
Community Manager, Blogger, Blog, Author, Technical Writer, documentation
Central London - Up to £60,000 + Benefits
Idealpeople are […]

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You may have already read our previous blogs on hot Technical Skills in 2008. These reflected the demand we experienced for core skills in 2007. What they didn’t reflect of course are the “emerging” technical stuffs - the stuff that is hot, but isn’t necessarily measurably hot (yet). Cool skills are kind […]

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