Read interesting blogs on essential topics as part of the Langley James blog.
For candidates, we share insights on how to create the best CV and prepare for the perfect IT interview, among other things.
For companies looking to recruit in IT, learn more about IT recruitment trends, market insight and more.
Recruit Someone Worth Recruiting – Part One – Motivate Change
We are constantly asked what the market for IT recruitment is like…
Big Enough To Cope, Small Enough To Care
Big enough to cope, small enough to care
Langley James was founded in 1999 to provide something unique: a bespoke IT recruitment service founded on service excellence.
Now, 16 years later we have helped some of the most respected companies in the world recruit someone worth recruiting.
How Was It For You?
In a year where we saw U2 give away their album to everyone on iTunes and we successfully landed on a comet, the IT skills gap and recruitment were major concerns for CIO’s, remaining unchanged from 2013.
Hoverboards, Flying Cars and Power Shoelaces – The Predictions For 2015
It’s official! Christmas is well and truly over. The hangover has finally subsided and we are all back into the swing of things.
With most of the country taking advantage of a 2 week break, it seems as though a job move was top of the New Year resolution list with a huge influx of people registering with agencies on January 5th.
Did Mercedes Recruit Someone Worth Recruiting?
Mercedes are celebrating, after their unsung hero Niki Lauda recruited the superstar, Lewis Hamilton, proving companies need great people to become World Champions of their domain as proven this weekend
Post Holiday Blues
The summer holiday season is over, you’re back at work and it seems like there’s nothing to look forward to for months and months. On top of all that the weather has begun to turn and the evenings are rapidly drawing in. Together it’s a recipe for the ‘post holiday blues.’
The IT Talent Crunch – Are Companies To Blame
In order to survive the IT talent crunch, companies need to stop looking for people with particular certifications or technical talents and seek technical people who are willing to learn. According to Patrick Gray; who is the founder and president of Prevoyance Group.
Like a migratory bird that returns to its seasonal nesting grounds on a recurring basis, talk of a skills shortage in the IT industry is once again on the lips of CIOs and industry pundits. Technology titans point at the educational system and lament the lack of new math and engineering students, and fund programs to try and swell their ranks while expressing disgust at the current dearth of “talent.”
Wish You Were Here?
How will you cope with the empty office this summer? Could those empty desks be full of potential?
The Must Read for Anyone Planning to Recruit this Year
Grab talent while it’s hot. Recruit fast and beat the competition.
World Cup Glory or World Cup Woe?
Will employers be greeting the tournament with excited anticipation?
No doubt some will, but the majority will be approaching it with some trepidation. If previous World Cups are anything to go by, it’s widely recognised that staff absence and sickness rises significantly on match days and perhaps more worryingly, on the immediate day after a crucial match.