IF Recruitment

Month: July 2017

  • IF Recruitment Exhibits at BT Innovation 2017 Event

    IF Recruitment Exhibits at BT Innovation 2017 Event

    IF Recruitment were proud to be part of Innovation 2017 event hosted by BT at Adastral Park during June 2017. 　The Event was to celebrate all the Innovations that are taking place at the Park, members of Innovation Martlesham, the established cluster of over 90 high-tech ICT companies located at Adastral Park, were also exhibiting.

    For more than a century now, BT has looked to innovation to bring new products and services, improve customer experience, efficiency gains and to unlock exciting new opportunities. BT’s very origins can be traced back 180 years to an entrepreneurial fusion of business and innovation. On June 12th 1837 William Fothergill Cooke (an entrepreneur and business man) and Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone (an academic) filed a patent for the world’s first practical electric telegraph. These collaborators were excited by the commercial potential that the recently discovered phenomenon of electricity and magnetism could offer for communications

    The event show cased over 100 demos, presentations and exhibition stands hosted by award-winning technologists, scientists and innovators and covered a range of key innovation topics.

    The event was a huge success with approximately 1000 attendees per day from all over the world.

    IF showcased our Virtual Reality demo. Consultants were on hand to discuss other Tech Innovations as well as some free advice on:

     

    　　　　　　　　 Attracting Talent – making your organisation an ‘employer of choice’

    　　　　　　　　 Hiring on ‘Intelligent Adaptability’

    　　　　　　　　 Agile Recruitment

     

    IF Recruitment were thrilled to be part of such a successful event and to have the opportunity to meet such a wealth of forward thinking organisations. In addition to further cementing relationships with current IM companies partners and BT.

    Please do contact Kelly for further information on Kelly@ifrecruit.com or 07525 045168.

  • Skills Gap or Wage Gap – Two Separate But Heavily Entwined Issues

    Skills Gap or Wage Gap – Two Separate But Heavily Entwined Issues

    Jim Marshall responds to TechEast UK recent Twitter post "Do we have a tech skills gap or a pay gap?" - http://bit.ly/2tctTD3

    Skills Gap? No, Wage Gap @TechEastUK

    Pay Gap

    For years I have also been working with customers to set realistic expectations around the costs for skilled and talented people. The salaries and contract rates for Developers in particular have stagnated over the last 10 years in a period of high demand.

    I agree with much that has been said:

    • Offshoring and Outsourcing has reduced the perceived value of Software Development. Whilst we look at Costs as day or hourly rates rather than overall Project Cost set against quality and timeliness of delivery then this will often appear to stack up.
    • Too many employers are referencing a ‘skills Gap’ when they are just not willing to pay the market salary for a skilled Software Engineer, or
    • Too many employers are:
      • Not willing to invest in the training and development of the next generation (higher education establishments are often blamed for not having ‘industry ready’ coding graduates, but we need to look at other industries and the in-house industry training programmes for Accountants or Solicitors or Architects – the expectation there is usually to build a career, not to simply ‘plug in a resource’), or
      • Not willing to retrain talented IT professionals that require refresher courses on the next generation of languages and technologies

     

    Skills Gap

    …. having noted all the above ….

    In my experience a high proportion of individuals return to live where they grew up or where they were educated.

    If we are not able to persuade our young talented people (of @TechEastUK) to join the tech sector then our region will most likely experience a more genuine Skills Gap. So that even with reasonable Post education salaries we are simply not able to generate enough supply for industry demand.

     

    What are your thoughts on this provocative subject? We’d like to hear them on our social media streams or via email – info@ ifrecruit.com.