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Cybersecurity – How does the UK stack up against USA?

The United States is home to many things. The World’s biggest ball of twine, The Heart Attack Bar & Grill and the largest hub of Cybersecurity Professionals in the world. […]

Benefits & Perks, ranked as meal deals

The job Market in the U.K. has never been so competitive. In 2019, we are experiencing a candidate-shortage: particularly within the Software engineering market. It is for this reason that […]

Employee Engagement – How can you improve your teams?

First came nap pods, then came Pawternity leave. Now we have entered the age of Employee Engagement. What is Employee Engagement? If you use LinkedIn as a yardstick for the […]

Video tech in recruitment [Infographic]

In 2019 video has taken social media by storm, everyone with a phone is now a content creator. Not to be outdone by anyone in the market, we at Applause […]

The Gig Economy; the answer to your productivity nightmare?

What’s the biggest killer of productivity in a business? An empty desk. A scene we see often enough: an employee leaves a business unexpectedly, leaving their desk (and position) empty. […]

Management styles: how far can a pool table really get you?

If you have ever spent longer than 15 minutes on LinkedIn, there is a very good chance that you have seen: But that’s not to say that one employee […]

How can your career benefit from building a relationship with a single recruitment consultant?

Moving jobs is well known for being a very stressful time; only beaten by having children or getting married! It’s definitely up there with moving house. There are many […]

Counter-offer, when is it right to say goodbye?

A familiar scene in the recruitment world; you have accepted a job offer with a new company and the next step is to hand in your notice to your current […]

State of Remote [Infographic]

Check out the original report here: Buffer ‘State of Remote’ 2019 Find yourself a role incorporating Remote Working now

Automated Testing, a Developers’ role?

Automated Test Developers In September of last year, I spoke about the trends in the world of Software Testing & QA in 2018. A major trend across the year that […]

Yorkshire’s most exciting tech companies

Kingston-upon-Hull | Est. 1902 Kingston Communications (KCOM) are better known as simply ‘KC’. As a company, they have been trading since 1902 starting life as a telephone operator in the […]

Agile working and how it has evolved in recent years

What is Agile working? Agile working refers to the refining and streamlines of processes & systems with the goal of delivering results in a timelier fashion. The Association for Project […]

Business Intelligence, How does it differ from Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence started life as a story-telling device used by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. I’m sure we all remember how this went down with the village locals! To […]

Why Java is still the top dog

Where it all began Java was first released in 1995 by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. That company has since been acquired by computer technology giant, Oracle. TIOBE programming community […]

How DevOps can help us reach the future that 80’s Hollywood predicted?

So, 2015 came and went, and disappointingly still no flying cars or genuine hoverboards. I guess the writing team for Back to the Future 2 didn’t include Nostradamus after all. […]

What is Microsoft Offering in 2018?

Last month global research & advisory firm Gartner released their report on the value of the worldwide cloud services revenue to have increased by a fifth from $145m in 2017 […]

Microsofts Acquisition of Playground Games (Revisited)

In June we looked at the impact the acquisition of Playground Games and what this could mean for the industry. With the recent release of Forza 4 we thought this […]

The Rundown on PHP

The acronym PHP stands for ‘Hypertext Preprocessor’ and has been around for the last 24 years. It is a server-side scripting language, designed for web development. It is also used […]

Testing & Quality Assurance trends in 2018

Software testing & QA is an important function for any organisation that produces Software (as a Service (SaaS) or as stand-alone). 2018 has been a busy year for the tech […]

How to Embrace Rejection

Rejection is a word that is often feared, whether it be a teenager putting their heart on the line, or a graduate looking for their first role out of university. […]

Birmingham’s Tech Expansion

In 2017 Birmingham was named the most popular location for Start-up businesses in the UK outside of London for the fifth year in a row. Being based in the city […]

The Secrets to the Perfect Job Specification

The Office for National Statistics recently released their report on the UK Labour Market, the report showed that the pool of unemployed workers had decreased by 64,000 people since March […]

Get to Know our Academy

This week we welcome four new faces to the Applause IT team. Rhianne, Aaliyah, Emmanuel & Vytas have successfully navigated themselves through our recruitment process and now begin their journey […]

How to Attract Top Tech Talent

In 2018 we are deep into the information age, digital brands are now just as important as physical brands, if not more so. As an IT specialist recruiter, we have […]

Recruitment Partnership – Help us, help you

It’s a common misconception that a company either uses an internal recruiter, or an external agency and this opinion may unnecessarily be costing businesses a lot of time and money […]

The importance of Self-Care

The need to look after both body & mind should never be underestimated. Over the past few years there has been a major change in the level of care people […]

Why Birmingham Makes Sense for Channel 4

Channel 4 recently announced that they had narrowed their search for the new home of their headquarters to Leeds, Greater Manchester & Birmingham. Applause IT are very proud #Brummies and, […]

Graduate Employability in the North West

With each university in the process of releasing the finalised classifications to their final year students, graduate recruitment season is in full swing. The technology industry is consistently updating, innovating […]

How to improve and build on client-recruiter relationships

As we said last month in our candidate version of this blog, building any relationship takes a lot of time, patience and effort from both sides. Whether you’re a candidate […]

Microsoft acquires GitHub causing mixed reviews

The tech scene has been on fire these past few weeks. With Microsoft buying GitHub for $7.5bn, in addition to their AI acquisition of Semantic Machines last month, and local […]

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