Craig Whiting

Elixir & Erlang Hiring Managers!! I’m looking to speak with clients with live roles that require on-site presence, how is your hiring coming along?? Drop me a message if you have some free time #elixir #erlang

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June 2024 UK IT Salary & Contractor Rates If your company is thinking of hiring, do it now. As demand rises, so too with the rates of pay and the difficulty levels of attracting and securing the right talent. If, however, your company is slowing down - beware! If your IT staff start to feel insecure, talent competitors and recruiters will find it very easy to persuade your staff to interview elsewhere. Despite the stress and negativity that may exist, take the time to focus on reassuring your team and, where appropriate, reward their loyalty. It's a false economy to avoid salary increases for your best people. Doing so risks leave yourself vulnerable to losing key staff and the larger costs in both time and money of replacing them. Should you be considering recruitment or simply would like some advice on anything recruitment related, please do not hesitate to give us a call and see how we can really help you to Recruit Someone Worth Recruiting.

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Bit late to it... but better late than never, right? Rundown of Q2 in Team Java & Kotlin incoming ➡➡➡ 💪🏼 122% of our quarterly target 💸 Highest billing UK team at Understanding Recruitment 🏆 We hit our team incentive 📅 23 new client meetings ✅ 1.09 CV : 1 Interview ratio It's no secret that the last 18 months haven't been the smoothest sailing for the tech market, but one thing for certain is that things are moving in the right direction. What have we got in store for Q3? 💥 If you're looking to scale your engineering team this quarter and need some advice or support, feel free to reachout for a chat about how we can alleviate some of the headaches that come with hiring! #quarterlyupdate #hiring #techrecruitment #java #kotlin

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🌟 Exciting News from Fintech-rec! 🌟 We just wrapped up a highly successful recruitment day for one of our top clients, seeking new Business Development Executives. We’re thrilled to announce that multiple placements were made from the event! 🎉 At Fintech-rec, we do all the leg work – from managing candidate expectations and shortlisting the best talent, to giving our clients the opportunity to see them in action for a day before making a decision. Our client couldn't be happier, expressing immense gratitude as we took all the stress out of the recruitment process. Are you on the lookout for young, ambitious future FX stars? Let's connect and discuss how Fintech-rec can deliver on your junior hiring needs. Let Fintech-Rec do the leg work for you. #RecruitmentSuccess #FintechRec #FXStars #BusinessDevelopment #FutureLeaders #JoinTheTeam

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What's the trickiest vacancy you're trying to fill? Often it's not the "Head of xxx" or "xxx Manager". It's a Technical Consultant with 2 years' experience. Or a Junior DBA. Recently it took me 2 months to fill a 1st Line Application Support Specialist role. These entry-level type of positions are critical for any company, but especially for SMEs. In my case it was for a construction business. Technical skills were important but CULTURE fit was massive. Stakeholder management skills were critical in order to deal with a wide variety of different users. We got there in the end, and both candidate and manager are a perfect match! But why so hard to find the right person, when you're hiring at entry/junior level? ➡️ There's not a lot of work experience to go on, so lots more CV screening and interviewing required. ➡️Typically less engagement, so harder to pin down for availablity and commit to interview. ➡️ More susceptible to counter offers. ➡️ Unrealistic salary expectations. What issues do you face when hiring such roles? Comments ⬇️ please!

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🌍 Exciting News for the UK Economy! 📈💼 According to the latest forecasts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the UK economy is gearing up for a modest recovery next year, thanks to falling inflation! 🎉💰 Despite a sluggish growth outlook for this year, projections indicate a turnaround with a predicted growth of 1.5% in 2025. 📉 While 2023 faced challenges with minimal growth due to stubborn inflation and high interest rates, the IMF anticipates a brighter outlook as the negative effects of high energy prices wane. Inflation has sharply decreased, and with the potential for interest rate cuts, the stage is set for economic revitalisation. 📊 Looking globally, despite uncertainties, the IMF highlights the resilience of the banking system and major emerging market economies, signaling a soft landing for the world economy. However, it emphasises the importance of enhancing economic resilience, urging policymakers to prioritise rebuilding fiscal buffers. 🚀 With the UK poised to be the fastest-growing major economy in Europe next year, there's optimism on the horizon! 💪🏻💼 #UKEconomy #IMF #EconomicRecovery #FiscalResilience

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Building a DevOps culture or migrating from on-prem > cloud are great ideas. Ideas that are hard to execute because the availability of cloud experts is too few I recently told a client I am hiring for; “It won’t be you interviewing 3 people and hiring the best one - it will be one engineer “interviewing” 3 companies and taking the highest offer” I am currently hiring for 🔸 AWS Cloud Architect 🔸 Infra Engineer (on-prem > AWS cloud) 🔸 DevOps - HR Tech from Singapore 🔸 DevOps - Series B Healthtech 🔸 DevOps Lead - Fintech (Investing / trading) Whether you are a Cloud, SRE, DevOps for Infrastructure engineer I would love to tell you more. Not looking for PMs, Delivery or People managers - looking for hands on ICs who can get these projects moving. Mix of remote and hybrid jobs, based in KL, link to careers page in the comments Capcon

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Results from last weeks poll. Very close call - seems we're split on this one. With demand for work / life balance on the rise. Is this an approach we might see adopted more in 2025? #4dayweek #prorated #softwareengineering

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🚨 THE FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY SALARY SURVEY 2024/25 🚨 Do you work in Financial Markets in: Application Support Change & Transformation Cloud Engineering & DevOps Cyber Security & IT Risk Data Infrastructure Support Network Engineering Product Management QA & Testing Quantitative Finance Sales Marketing Software Engineering If you are looking to benchmark your salary in the UK and USA, download your free copy today. Our team would be delighted to discuss the context of your unique skill set an background and give you a complimentary assessment of your market value. If you are looking to benchmark your team against your competition to help attract, engage and retain the best talent, we would also be delighted to add more colour. Download your complimentary copy in the link in the comments. #salarysurvey #fintech

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"Why should we outsource recruitment? Can't our TA team handle it?" I think... Internal TA teams are experts in understanding the company culture. Bu when it comes to scaling quickly or hiring niche roles, it's impossible to throw every role at them and expect them to fill it. Sometimes you need extra hands. Partnering with external recruiters who can tap into wider networks is valuable. If you're looking for embedded talent - ping me a message

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Demand for Intermediate-level Software Developers is decreasing, resulting in salary levels on offer declining. For the time being it appears that the days of intermediate developers securing 15% - 20% pay increases when moving jobs are over.   Current advertised salaries for software developers in the UK (3 months to June 2024) are down to 2019 levels.   Is this trend mirrored elsewhere in the world? What are the causes for this?    

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EOW Market Updates for Tech Folk in the Trading Tech world: - There is currently a HUGE battle amongst companies for top IT Talent. Everyone is hiring. But they only want the top %, and are willing to pay for it. If you are the top %, now is a good time to engage with recruiters and gauge the market - There is a HUGE battle amongst everyone else regarding finding jobs. At the middle % there's is not much client demand and lots of people looking. Advice for people here is be flexible where you can be flexible, bed in and get through the next 6-12 months in good shape - WFH debate rages on. Trenches are dug and no man's land is full of recruiters trying to talk about it and getting shelled on both sides :) Seriously speaking, some firms are competing based on flex, some have moved on completely and want everyone back in. There's something out there for all, so choose your companies based on who meets your preferences. - Lots of heavy hitters moving Fund-to-Fund or into buy-side, expect big tech growth programmes to drop in '25 budget cycles - Trend for techies to do 3 jobs in 1 is continuing, those that can context shift effectively and maintain high quality levels are flooded with opportunity - Head says Dricus, Heart says Izzy. Sampling a new Massolino now, see you on the other side Good weekend all. #recruiter #recruiting #recruitment #londonjobs #nycjobs #techjobs #technologyjobs #fintech #tradingtechnology #hedgefundjobs #remoteworking

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If you are looking for your next Django Developer and unhappy with the current level of service you are receiving from your recruitment partner. Or if your internal team needs some support, here is a recent case study to give you an idea of numbers from Foxley Talent. If you would like more information about our process, please drop me an email to arrange a no-obligation call and let me tell you about why we are the only globally dedicated Python Django recruitment partner. #django #python #casestudy #djangoandproud

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June 2024 UK IT Salary & Contractor Rates If your company is thinking of hiring, do it now. As demand rises, so too with the rates of pay and the difficulty levels of attracting and securing the right talent. If, however, your company is slowing down - beware! If your IT staff start to feel insecure, talent competitors and recruiters will find it very easy to persuade your staff to interview elsewhere. Despite the stress and negativity that may exist, take the time to focus on reassuring your team and, where appropriate, reward their loyalty. It's a false economy to avoid salary increases for your best people. Doing so risks leave yourself vulnerable to losing key staff and the larger costs in both time and money of replacing them. Should you be considering recruitment or simply would like some advice on anything recruitment related, please do not hesitate to give us a call and see how we can really help you to Recruit Someone Worth Recruiting.

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June 2024 UK IT Salary & Contractor Rates If your company is thinking of hiring, do it now. As demand rises, so too with the rates of pay and the difficulty levels of attracting and securing the right talent. If, however, your company is slowing down - beware! If your IT staff start to feel insecure, talent competitors and recruiters will find it very easy to persuade your staff to interview elsewhere. Despite the stress and negativity that may exist, take the time to focus on reassuring your team and, where appropriate, reward their loyalty. It's a false economy to avoid salary increases for your best people. Doing so risks leave yourself vulnerable to losing key staff and the larger costs in both time and money of replacing them. Should you be considering recruitment or simply would like some advice on anything recruitment related, please do not hesitate to give us a call and see how we can really help you to Recruit Someone Worth Recruiting.

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