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How a recruiter can save you time
What would you do with an extra 5 hours per week? As a company, if you could save 1 hour per candidate interview, would you do it? For 5 candidates per week, that's 5 hours, out of 40 hours? Wow! I can understand that companies will think that it’...
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Giving back to the community: supporting the NHS
Over the past few days, I've been trading a few working hours for delivering food parcels to some of our local NHS Heroes and vulnerable people in the local area. There is an incredible charity called Gratitude that gets donations from the local s...
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Mendix World
I am delighted to see that Mendix World is now an annual event, rather than bi-annual. I was talking to a client yesterday, asking his opinion about Mendix and how he views the developments in the market from when we started working together 3 yea...
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Microsoft: A leader in enterprise low-code application platforms
Here is Microsoft's version of Rapid Application Development: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gartner-names-microsoft-a-leader-in-enterprise-low-code-application-platforms-2019-magic-quadrant/ Having helped to build Mendix businesses ov...
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Celebrating 100 candidates placed
We are so excited here at Advance in IT HQ! We have just placed out 100th candidate! A superbly talented Computer Vision Engineer at a top AI and IoT Consultancy... who is still hiring! We are so delighted to be servicing some truly wonderful grow...
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10 quick interview tips for candidates
When preparing for an interview, do not take ANYTHING for granted, this could be the difference between getting the job and not getting the job! 1. If you don't know the platform, learn it. 2. If you don't know your interviewers, research them, Li...
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From traditional to microservices
Guest blog post by Hans van den Elsen You have a great PHP application for bookkeeping. It’s a well-used product and downtime is highly undesirable. After a few sprints, the new version is ready. All the test engineers, software engineers, product...
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Employee Referral Schemes
"Our employees don’t know anyone who'll want to work for us", said no-one, ever. How many companies implement an Employee Referral Scheme? If you haven't got one in place, here's why you should: These encourage people to talk to their networks – p...
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How a British recruiter can recruit successfully in the Netherlands
I always get asked by potential clients and candidates alike, "how is it that someone British can recruit effectively in the Netherlands?". The answer is simple. I listen, absorb and act accordingly. Hard sales has never been my thing. I am much m...
