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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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(Better late than never, right?)
Earlier in the week, we were talking about strategies for getting a job on-line. In this, we announced the relatively interesting finding from some recent research which suggests that 25% of people who find a new job using the internet do so through an advert.
Don’t let such a relatively low […]

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We’ve introduced you to Candidate 2.0 before. Remember Bridget?
Soon, we’re going to be talking a lot more about Candidate 2.0. For now, we wanted to share a piece of relatively interesting research we’ve conducted.
We spoke to a lot of people who had changed jobs in the last four years across a number […]

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We’ve been trying really hard to avoid the whole topic of the big “R” but with the Chambers of Commerce convinced that the recession is on the way we thought we’d send out some hope signals to anyone out there who is wondering what effect it will have on their chances of getting a new […]

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We’ve been promising this for some time, and now it’s finally here! Here at Idealpeople towers, we employ people who not only know quite a bit about Recruitment, but who also know quite a bit about recruitment within specific technology verticals.
So, allow us to introduce you to Patrick Kennedy, who heads up all of our […]

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Well well well readers we’re back. After a short break (no apologies I’m afraid, we’ve been rather busy and have some interesting news to tell you very very soon), we’re ready to pick up where we left off.
We’d thought we’d kick-start the second half of 2008 - awkward economic conditions and all - by […]

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Now here’s a story we can get our teeth into….
For those too busy to click the link, it’s all about a new system being set up called the “National Staff Dismissal Register”, which is a system where an employer can log the details of any member of staff who was fired or who resigned from […]

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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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This is may be a little off-topic, although with the fear spreading throughout the recruitment industry as to the effect that the problems with the worldwide economy will have on hiring, perhaps it’s not….
Thankfully for us, we happen to know a guy who survived the last downturn. So what was the secret of his […]

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Gosh, we’ve been a little quiet of late. Apologies, things have been rather hectic over here preparing some major changes to our corporate website as well as managing what’s been a really good start to 2008 for us, and our upcoming expansion into China.
He who shall remain nameless - Idealpeople’s chief blog writer - […]

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