How to Hire the Best Tech Professionals in the UK

How to Hire the Best Tech Professionals in the UK The tech industry is an ever expanding sector and with this growth comes the demand and competition for skilled tech professionals. When hiring for your tech company, its essential that you  make sure that the individual has the correct skill set and is fully qualified to excel within your business. After-all, dont ever underestimate the power of a star employee, as the right person could have the potential to influence the success and growth of your company.   However, as the number of tech jobs is on the rise, the number of professionals with the correct skill-set can’t keep up with the demand, creating a great deal of competition for tech companies to nab the top talent.   Here are a few tips courtesy of nudj that will help your company conquer  the competition to hire and retain the best tech employees available. The influence that the tech talent shortage has on employers 42% of tech companies find it difficult to keep hold of their best employees. 45% of employers think that the skills shortage is the biggest issue when hiring and retaining staff. 77% of these companies would grow if they had access to candidate with the correct skill-set. Is the talent shortage a real problem? Nearly half of tech professionals receive at least one message from a recruiter per month; however 87% respond to less than 10% of the messages that they receive. This suggests that the candidates exist, but are not seeking new roles. How are tech professionals hired? The top source of hire, is through referrals and 86% of tech professionals say they would accept a job through a friend, as they trust their judgement more than a recruiter. The second most popular source for hiring tech employees was through recruiters and in third spot online. What do tech professionals look for in a role? 86% of professionals seek a role where these is the opportunity for career development. 60% look for a great company reputation, so building an effective employer brand for your tech organisation is essential for attracting the top talent. Find out more below.

Create Your 90-Day Business Launch Plan in 3 Hours - Classy Career Girl

Create Your 90-Day Business Launch Plan in 3 Hours Today, I want to share my process for launching a new product, course, or business. Over the years, I have used this business launch plan dozens of times to keep myself, and our team organized and actually make it to launch! The two people I have learned a TON from on launching are Stu McLaren and Jeff Walker. Check them out if you want a deeper dive! How to Create a Business Launch Plan in Just 3 Hours Ready to get started? Here is how I created my 90-day launch plan! It is just three steps and generally takes me around three hours to do. It is short and sweet, which makes it easy to implement. Step 1: Create a NEW Google Calendar Pick a 3-month timeframe for your launch, then create a calendar only for your launch. This took me 30-45 minutes. First, plan out your Phase 5, which is the fulfillment of your product. Set dates for calls and for fulfilling your product. Focus on WOWing your members. Host a welcome week or new member orientation. Also, set aside times for any Fast Action bonus dates you’ll provide. Then, set dates for Phase 4, which is your actual launch when the cart opens. I suggest choosing a launch week that is slow in your personal life. Set your Phase 4-7 launch dates first, then set other dates for launch week like live streams, webinars, FB lives, etc. Phase 3: This is stage is about building a relationship by giving away great free content. Pick the 1-2 weeks before your pre-launch. This is your free stuff which is valuable, but also sets the need for your product. Show them that you know their frustrations and goals, and you have a solution. Tell them the date your cart will open.  I do a 4-part video series, but it could be a series of webinars or FB Lives. Whatever it is, you are seeding your product and service and making your audience really want it so they will jump on it when it finally becomes available. Phase 2: This is four weeks pre-pre-launch. During this time, I work on list building, and building relationships through FB Lives by doing how-to training and answering questions. This is when you’ll want to showcase studies of people getting the success your market wants. Make sure to email your list every week. Phase 1: This is beginning when people really get to know YOU! You’ll share your values and beliefs. You’ll also share what you feel passionate about. You can be yourself here! YAY! This phase is also for four weeks. Share what you stand for. Connect. Be vulnerable. Build relationships. Do weekly videos being yourself and email your list once per week. Step 2: Set Up Tasks Associated with Your Launch Calendar in Asana This part took me 1 hour. Create a new project for this launch in Asana. Inside the project, make a task for every single thing you need to do in your launch over the next three months. Details matter here. Get it out of your head and into Asana. What videos do you need to record? What blog articles or emails do you need to write? What lead magnets do you need to create? What FB Lives do you need to do? What pictures do you need to be designed? What sales pages do you need to create? You can worry about the topics of FB Lives and lead magnets later. This is really getting the big picture project plan done as quickly as you can. Step 3: Delegate All tasks in Asana to the Appropriate Person and Assign a Deadline This took me 1 hour. Delegate all tasks to people and give real deadlines. Give yourself the time and space to provide quality stuff. Give yourself early deadlines while looking at your Google calendar, so you have wiggle room if you need to delay things. For instance, if you plan to launch your list build on May 1st, get it done a week ahead of time. That’s it!! Now it’s time to execute. Every Sunday when I plan out my week, all I do is check out my calendar in my launch project in Asana and see what I need to get done that week. I check things off as I go, and this is how I stay on top of what needs to get done in prep for launch time. I really want to thank everyone who has been joining us over in the Classy Career Girl Network! It is so incredible to see how many of you jump in to help members who have questions. Thank you for all you do.   If this plan helps you, I would love to hear about it! Share your thoughts and experiences on Instagram and let me know what works for you. Make sure you tag me @classycareergirl and share your biggest takeaways!

3 Skills to Master in the Critical First Years of Your Career and Beyond

3 Skills to Master in the Critical First Years of Your Career â€" and Beyond What was your first “real” job? Do you remember it? Of course you do. Mine was post-college, auditing newspaper circulation for advertisers, in an industry I didn’t know, working with people significantly older than me, dealing with department heads who were proud members of the old-boys club. Due to my despised job function (I just LOVE my auditor! said no one, ever), my youth, and the fact that I’m female, I didn’t exactly fit in. I quickly realized that this put me at a big disadvantage. In Robert Dilenschneider’s book, The Critical First Years of Your Professional Life,  he points out that every newbie faces this, to some degree. And he recommends they learn the ropes of the work place â€" as quickly as they can. Learning The Ropes So thats exactly what I did learned the ropes. At every new client’s office I visited. Week after week. I quickly discovered that my best bet was to initially observe analyze their team, taking time to carefully plan my interactions with people. At its best, this strategy consistently delivered a positive, productive week with a client’s team. And for those times when  things got a little hairy, it at least ensured that I survived my time there without any giant missteps. The Critical Early Years As part of learning the ropes, Dilenschneider provides valuable advice and actionable steps on topics like running a successful job search, accessing the office grapevine, networking effectively, and recovering from setbacks. Each of these chapters are highly valuable to someone just starting their career. But there are three areas  Dilenschneider includes that I would argue are valuable to folks at any point in their careers. Here they are: assessing the culture of a company or department connecting well with generations beyond your own successfully managing your boss Why do I consider these the most valuable in  learning the ropes? Because these are ongoing issues, and are constantly changing they are  moving targets. And we see them quite  often with our coaching clients. These are clients who have been highly successful in certain areas, but who have now hit a barrier of some kind in their career and they’re stuck. And many of these barriers tie back to  one of the big three mentioned above. So although Dilenschneiders advice is right  â€" these skills ARE important to acquire during the critical first years of our professional life, they often don’t get mastered. In general, we  gain enough skill to create success at a certain level, or in a certain situation. It feels like mastery, but its really just mastery at that level, for that scenario. But then something happens. We get a promotion. A demanding new boss arrives. New and difficult team members are added. And suddenly, we face  a barrier to our  career progress. Continuing to develop our muscles around these big three will prevent that barrier from stalling you very long. So be sure to carefully read the chapters on those topics. Highlights From the Book Admittedly, the main reason  I appreciate this book so much is that  Dilenschneiders content and advice ties closely to what we teach here at Careertopia. Here are a few excerpts that resonated with me: On the topic of job fit. When you know who you are, youll be able to evaluate which organizational cultures fit you. If you find the right fit, you have a shot at being happy even in these crazy economic times. Self-knowledge is the beginning of happiness in the workplace. Regarding empathy. When I learned to empathize with the pressures my bosses and clients were under, my relationships with them improved 200 percent. So many conflicts in the workplace happen because we are looking inward at ourselves rather than outward at the context were operating in. The secret to success. Careers are built primarily on relationships, not expertise. Focus on your professional relationships, and youll have access to all the resources you need to get your work done.  Theres some fantastic wisdom and guidance in this book, whether youre just starting out in your career, or have been in it a while.

A Gap Year May Help You Adapt in College - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

A Gap Year May Help You Adapt in College - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Parents spend thousands of dollars in preparing their children to test well for college admissions tests and countless hours worrying about what school their child will attend but often overlook the issue of how their child will adapt to college once they get there. Leaving home for four years after high school following eighteen years of comfortably living at home is daunting for some students. The thought of living on your own with thousands of other students, managing your schedule, doing your own laundry, making all new friends and building a life away from home can be and exciting and yet somewhat an intimidating proposition for many students. College tuition is probably the single largest financial investment parents make in their lifetime and yet parents often overlook the fact that many students at eighteen years old (including many top students) aren’t fully ready to settle down in school and focus on their academic pursuits. For this reason, taking a gap year is a good financial investment and a practical choice for many students. Taking a gap year allow students to mature prior to diving in to the academic and social rigors of university life. The experience of taking a gap year can help a student become more independent, resourceful and adaptable, skills that will enable you to adjust faster and more easily to college. When studying abroad students learn to adapt to a different culture, a new monetary system, transportation system, and are challenged to make friends often in a foreign language. This experience requires them to become more independent, resourceful and persistent which are beneficial skills for adapting to life on a college campus. Holly Bull, president of The Center for Interim Programs in Princeton, N.J., a consulting firm that helps students plan gap years says that a gap year spent diving in the coral reefs of Australia or trekking in the Taklimakan Desert in northwestern China is also a smart career move. “Students can build resumes before they hit college,” she said. Gappers interested in medicine may have more contact with patients in South America and Asia, and job-like internships in other countries offer greater access and are easier to arrange. Students land in college more focused. Bull recounted how a student interested in the medical field volunteered at a clinic in Costa Rica. After the experience, she knew she wanted to study public health in college. Gappers generally do better academically, too, Bull said. ? After one student interested in fashion spent a grueling internship in London, it was clear it wasn’t a good fit, said Bull, who decided against a career in marine biology during her gap time in Hawaii years ago, realizing she didn’t have the patience for field research. In a survey of 280 American gap students, about 60 percent said the experience positively affected their choice of college major or career, said Karl Haigler, coauthor of The Gap-Year Advantage: Helping Your Child Benefit from Time Off Before or During College, who conducted the survey. ??Gap year students are strong job candidates ?“Employers are very interested in gap year experience,” said Haigler, who works with companies as a human resources consultant. “What set these kids apart are the kinds of things they did and what they learned.” Skills like language ability, decision-making, adaptability and working well in teams, are valued in the workplace. Having taken a gap year myself, I have first hand knowledge for knowing the benefits that year abroad had in my life. First, it made adjusting to college a breeze in the well groomed, ivy towered quaint town of Ann Arbor, Michigan where everyone spoke English! Second, it made leaving home less daunting as I was familiar with living much farther from home where long distance communication was costly and not considered normal to do on a regular basis. Now I could call my parents weekly and even drive home occasionally for holidays. Living abroad and developing fluency in a foreign language required persistence and determination. I made many mistakes along the way (some quite comical like mixing up the name of a taxi with a similar name for the bathrooms and shouting that I needed one at the top of my lungs). If I could develop a sense of humor and adapt it to a different culture, I surely had more confidence I could do this in college in a different state with generally the same culture. Finally, it taught me to empathize with “outsiders” or anyone who moved to this country or my city from a different place. I’ve transformed my stressful memories into my medals of honor if you will:  They’re the treasured stories that offer wisdom to my kids, provides me with insights for my clients, friends and family and developed my confidence that I can surpass future challenges. I consider my year abroad one of the most positively life altering experiences in my life. It prepared me not only for college life but also for managing living in different cities and for adapting to a wide range of work experiences. In hindsight, I’m glad my parents didn’t balk at my choice and that I ventured far away from home to a foreign land before settling down in college and in my life.

Social Media Strategy - My Resume - Career Pivot

Social Media Strategy - My Resume - Career Pivot Social Media Strategy â€" My Resume This is the Third of a multi-part story of Jim Adcock‘s Social Media Strategy. Make sure and read the first two posts Social Media Strategy â€" Jim Adcock’s Career Strategy Social Media Strategy â€" How I Make Blogging Work For Me â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" My name is Jim Adcock. I make a living as a SharePoint Consultant, and I make a difference as Vice President on the Launch Pad Job Club Board of Directors. There is one more part of my blog that makes a difference. My resume is a key part of my blog. This is important in two ways. First, as I have said on my blog, recruiters are cash-strapped, just like almost everyone else in the current economy. That means that they are less likely to turn to expensive services to source candidates (like Monster) and more likely to choose more economical resources. LinkedIn is an obvious example of a more economical resource. But here are two more, ones you may even have heard of: Google and Bing. That’s right, recruiters are using search engines to assist them in sourcing candidates. Which means you will want to have your resume where Google and other search engines can easily find it. Your blog is a good place for that. Second, when someone visits my blog, they may be curious about what makes me an “expert” at my subject, or maybe they think that I’m so clever, they might want to consider hiring me, if only they knew more about my background. Having my resume prominently posted there gives visitors easy access to the information they hopefully may want. Be sure to have your resume where it can be easily found. Your blog may just be the perfect place for it. How often do you blog? I try to post weekly, though occasionally my schedule interferes and prevents me from posting regularly. I still take ideas and start drafts that I can build upon later, when I have time. I have made 173 posts over the course of 171 weeks. Listen to the most recent episode How much time each week do you spend on your blog? When my schedule allows, I spend a couple of hours a week, polishing drafts, researching, planning. I also spend time jotting down, during the week, ideas I have for future blog posts. And I spend an inordinate amount of time watching my blog stats, trying to understand if what I have written is meeting the needs of my readers. How much money have you spent on your blog? None at all. You can have your blog and pay practically nothing for it but your time and energy. Are you ready to start blogging? Has Jim inspired you to give it a try? Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...

Robo-Résumés Immediate Résumé Changes Job-Seekers Need to Make

Robo-Résumés â€" Immediate Résumé Changes Job-Seekers Need to Make The hiring world has changed dramatically in the last few years and more changes are coming faster and faster. It’s time to rethink your résumé! If I could, I’d take my Men in Black neuralizer and erase everything you thought you knew about résumés and their role in your job search success. GET YOUR FREE ROBO-RESUME TEMPLATE BELOW New Principle #1: Your job search success does NOT rely on your résumé alone. In the “old days,” the résumé was everything. Now, it’s just one piece of a much more complex equation. You need to have a good one, but your goal is to use it as a tool and not THE make-or-break cornerstone of your strategy. New Principle #2: You need to apply to online job postings AND network for each position. Stop those R.A.A. or Random Acts of Application spraying your résumé all over the Internet and praying you get a response. Either join millions of others who are doing the same and find themselves as frustrated and depressed as you are OR change your game to dramatically fire up your networking. If you want to avoid those frustrated and depressed millions, your résumé should be part of a bigger “Candidate Packet” so you can tell a better story. New Principle #3: Your résumé is being read by a robot using algorithms to make go/no-go decisions both on company career sites and on LinkedIn. Your résumé needs to meet the needs of three main characters in the job search process. First, a recruiter; second, a hiring manager; third, a robot buried in an Applicant Tracking System or ATS. Unfortunately, the “non-person” is often the one who determines which applications real people get to see. So your résumé needs to “talk” to all three, while defaulting to the lowest-common denominator, the robot. And worse, there is no ONE Applicant Tracking System; they are all different. Now, let’s get to the tactical changes you need to make to your résumé right now: (NOTE: Applicant Tracking Systems and LinkedIn algorithms are ever-changing so the following guidance is subject to change without notice.) Do not put your first page “header” or name, address, etc. in the “header” section of your Word document. Place it in the body of the document. Pages 2 and onward can have your information in the document header. No need for your street address, but add your city, state, and zip code, and phone and e-mail address. You can also include your LinkedIn URL. Summary sections are good, yet use the word SUMMARY as the sub-head, since that is what the robot recognizes. The ATS is trying to categorize your résumé and put the information correctly into the database. Do not use underlines, forward slashes, graphics, pictures, tables, or columns anywhere. Even if you hide the outlines around your table, it messes up the robot’s ability to scan. The vertical slash (found right above the back slash on a standard keyboard) is acceptable. Your experience section should be called “Professional Work Experience” so the robot recognizes it. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) look for company names first, then job title. Other sections on your résumé should have labels such as “Education,” “Training,” “Certifications,” and “Skills.” Optional: For each job, you may provide months and years or just years. Optional: You do not have to put the years you graduated from educational institutions. Do not try to hide keywords in white letters anywhere on your résumé, including in the footer. This is an old hack and will backfire since the ATS will turn them into black letters. Résumés with more keywords score higher. I encourage you to have key words and key phrases in your summary and repeated throughout your various jobs. Just because you said “strong cross-team collaboration” in one position, don’t assume they know you demonstrated that skill in other jobs. Additionally, place your best keyword statements high up within each position. If you don’t know what keywords to highlight for the job you’re seeking, research titles and job descriptions: Do the proprietary “Window Shopping” exercise in Job Search Master Class. Use O*NET to look up career fields and find keywords (onetonline.com). Analyze a group of job descriptions and create a word cloud (wordle.net). Jobscan can analyze your resume compared to the job description to increase your ranking within an ATS, thereby increasing your chances of landing an interview. Spell out all acronyms the first time and put the acronym in parenthesis following the first use. Don’t forget! Now that you have a new résumé, copy and paste your SUMMARY section into your LinkedIn profile and copy and paste your experiences, word-for-word, into your LinkedIn experiences section. Don’t leave out words on LinkedIn since you may be dropping juicy key words that will help recruiters find you through the LinkedIn algorithm! Once you land, you can cut back on your LinkedIn content. Now that you have the anatomy of a Robo-Résumé that is both effective for human readers as well as robots, I want to give you a FREE ROBO-RESUME TEMPLATE. This template is just one example of the 35 tools and templates included in my Job Search Master Class. Register today to do so much more than update your resume! I’m on your team to see success FAST! Contact me to discuss the Job Search Master Class and private coaching at any time.

Math Teacher Resumes Tips For Teachers Who Have Been in School For a While

Math Teacher Resumes Tips For Teachers Who Have Been in School For a WhileThis article is all about math teacher resume tips for teachers who have been in school for a while. It is not advisable to read this article if you have not had some experience in math, but the basic knowledge is good, and you can also use the information to prepare a resume that will help you land your dream job.One of the most important things to remember when preparing a math teacher resume is to have a professional looking resume. If you just throw together a document, your career path will be thrown off track, and it may even end up appearing as a scam. Educators should always be aware of potential problems and make sure they do their homework so that they get the most out of the experience they gain in school.A math teacher resume is very important because many applicants have already tried to fill out one before. Many have failed, and others have succeeded. Therefore, it is essential to have a good resu me, especially if you have made mistakes along the way.Another point that should be considered is whether or not you have already planned out your career path. You need to know which jobs are in high demand in your state. For example, some states need a certain amount of education, others need math tutors. They also require math teachers.Of course, if you have worked as a tutor at some point, you could still apply as a math teacher. However, a better choice would be to have a little knowledge of the area of math that you wish to teach, and then make an application on how you can best help people.Finally, good resume writing should contain relevant facts, examples, and good experiences. You will want to be able to relate your experiences to what you hope to become when applying for a job.In addition, you should try to stay focused on your career goals, and stay away from simple mathematics concepts and applications. As a teacher, it is your responsibility to stay updated on new trend s in the industry, and incorporate them into your teaching style.