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How Is Machine Learning Affecting IT Recruitment?

Hiring is expected to increase significantly. So will machine learning take my IT recruitment job away, and if not how is it going to affect how we place candidates and liaise with clients?

The IT Contractor Guide To Using IT Recruitment Agencies

As an IT contractor you will have used an IT recruitment agency either in the past, right now or in the future. All you really want to do is get the best from the relationship. But how?

Why Do Candidates Miss Interviews?

Why do IT candidates miss interviews? What really happens to them? Do they get lost, get a better offer or have they been abducted by aliens?

When To Make The Right Phone Call To The Candidate

I read an interesting blog recently on Greg Savage’s website entitled “Calling a candidate to say there is no news IS news to the candidate”, which made me think a lot about how we communicate with our candidates – and clients – here at Ascent People.

It’s A Simple Question: Why Use An IT Recruiter?

It seems a simple question doesn’t it, why use someone like us, why use an IT recruiter? Despite having an unenviable reputation, the reason you should use a recruiter boils down to one reason: We both have the same goal of getting you the best possible job.

Interview With Dan Martin – Broadbean Technology MD

The good news is that the number of job vacancies posted by recruitment agencies in the UK is rising, marking a turnaround in the job market. We caught up with Dan at this year’s Recruitment Expo in Birmingham to go over the data and get his open on why this trend is taking place.

IT Recruitment Agency Ascent People Works with Manchester Web Developer to Create New Website

We are delighted to unveil our new website. Over the last few months Ascent People have worked incredibly closely with our web developers, Bamboo Solutions, to provide a new site with a complete redesign.

Collaboration versus competition

We recently attended a networking meeting in Manchester. It quickly became apparent that we would require certain contract documentation that we just didn’t possess. To our surprise one of our ‘rivals’ offered up the information we needed and sent us templates to use. To say we were mildly surprised would be an understatement.

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, or How Not To Resign

We can learn a lot about the way Douglas Adams’ dolphins left earth for pastures/oceans new. They didn’t just up and leave, without handing in their notice, they didn’t bad mouth their colleagues and they didn’t leave any work unfinished.

What We Learned At The Recruitment Expo

We visited the Recruitment Expo at Olympia in February and noticed a few key indicators of how the year ahead will be for us. The recruitment industry is growing. We are experiencing that change, and whether you are a client with a role to fill or a candidate looking for the next job, that growth signals a change in practice.

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