Tag: IT Project Management
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IR35 – How New Rules Are Influencing IT Recruitment
I recently wrote an article for Access Talent’s sister company Stoneseed, about the potential impending rollout of IR35 rules to the Private Sector and how it will impact IT Project resourcing. Since then I have had a number of requests for my predictions about what this might all mean for IT recruitment. The main thing…
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Reframing The ‘Problem’ Of IT Recruitment To Maximise Business Benefit
Interesting scenario this week in the world of IT & Project Management Recruiting. A client asked us to find an IT Project Manager. Simple enough, we have a live database of interviewed talent and we maintain regular contact with them. What’s more, we have a relationship with the client that is based on a deep…
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IT Project Management boring? Are you sure you’re doing it right?
Project Management is the second most boring job in the world, according to a recent study. When you factor in that working in IT also makes the top ten you would be forgiven for imagining that all IT Project Managers must be constantly nodding off on the job. Who did they ask? It reminds me…
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To be a solid IT project manager, be more flexible
I just gave some seemingly contrary advice. “You need to be more solid, steady, dependable, consistent – you’re all over the place,” I told an experienced IT Project Manager friend who is having one of those blips where nothing goes right. “OK, how?” he asked. I thought and answered,…
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The IT Sector Doesn’t Need ‘Just Another Recruitment Consultant’ – Next Time Choose A Partner.
Why set up a new IT recruitment agency when a Google search of the term returns about 46.2 million results? A crowded marketplace that! Thing is, whilst as an employer we could find lots of agencies, consultants and service providers – we struggled to find one partner. And this…
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Why and how IT hirers should embrace social media
I was amazed to learn this week that a UK firm, one that is a major user of technology to deliver its services and a large employer of millennials … bans its staff from using social media during office hours. It got me thinking. Given that increasingly this age…