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A little well-spent time thinking about your hiring strategy now could lead you to your most successful Q1 ever. Hiring tips for the festive period   1. Be PROACTIVE  Take […]

Changing company can be scary. Heart palpitations, shallow breathing, and sleepless nights. Sure, there is a healthy slug of excitement in the mix too, but leaving the team you know […]

Tired of hearing about top-tier talent?  Is it just alliteration? What does top tier talent mean? Whatever it means to your business; you should figure it out quickly. From Indeed’s […]

If you stepped into the Applause IT offices last Friday, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d made an almighty leap into the bakery biz. All the key contenders were there: […]

We at Applause IT love getting in our 7 glasses of H20 a day to keep our staff members hydrated and keep us performing our best. As a result, we decided […]

If you’ve visited the West Midlands recently, you’ll undoubtedly have seen Birmingham’s Bears as part of Wild in Art’s ‘The Big Sleuth’ bear hunt! Sally-Ann Wilkinson and Charlie Langhorne, Directors […]

Last weekend site reliability engineer at GitHub, Alice Goldfuss, started something we wanted to shout about: an open invitation for women in technology across the globe to brag about their careers […]

]A couple of weeks ago I came across an article by Josh Doody, author of “Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you’re worth”. The article, warns candidates […]

We’re ecstatic to announce our second wave of recruitment graduates have earned their stripes in our training academy and are now specialist IT recruitment consultants! They know the road to […]

Unless you’ve been living on Mars this week, you’ll have noticed that the UK is a flood with discussion on how to achieve equal pay for women, for people of […]

Remember when we were having a sweltering summer heatwave? Looking out at the Birmingham skyline today, you’d be forgiven for thinking that summer was a distant memory. Last Wednesday we […]

Setting aside time to schedule in a face to face meeting shows a certain level of commitment from both sides of the table. They’ve processed your CV and assessed your […]

We want to send a huge thank you to everyone involved with Digicities Digital Digbeth at Fazeley Studios. You looked after us, inspired plenty of Thursday Thought time and most […]

Worried about how to answer competency-based interview questions?  Competency questions are an opportunity to leverage your past performance to showcase your abilities for the future.  There's no need to rehearse […]

Graduating this summer? We want to send huge congratulations to everyone donning their graduation gowns. For all the highs and lows of university life and the stress of exams- you […]

Last weekend, the WannaCry ransomware became the largest ransomware infection in history. In just a few hours over 237,000 computers across 100 countries were infected. Thanks to the quick thinking […]

Can you complete our word search of buzzwords you’ll need to be our next recruitment superhero? Only joking…you don’t need to have endless time to waste on word searches…unless you […]

Today we’re proud to congratulate our talented group of trainee recruitment consultants on their final day of Applause IT’s recruitment academy. They know their Java from their Javascript, their C# […]

As recruitment consultants, we speak with the spectrum of workers daily from employees to employers, contractors and self-employed personnel to Ltd company owners. All of whom are directly affected by […]

We know we're not supposed to harp on about our strengths, but we're pretty proud of our ability to build long-lasting relationships and want to share this with the world […]

If you haven’t seen La La Land yet, beware, this article contains *SPOILERS* look away and come back to us as soon as you leave the movie theatre. La La […]

Being an IT recruitment consultant can be hugely rewarding. We listen to our clients, get to know our candidates and support people in finding jobs where they are likely to […]

How was your first week back? Did you miss work over the holidays? Or do you find the concept of missing work absurdly alien? Many people around now, after watching […]

Every now and then recruiters have to deliver the news no one wants to hear and break hearts. Sometimes we’ll find a job which fits a candidate like a glove, […]

In the UK it is reported that 6.5 million paid annual leave days slip into the ether every year. For workers with holiday running from January to December, the average […]

Humans are, on the whole, social beings. It’s our very need to be sociable and affable that can make giving tough feedback or requests so hard. We’re also often sensitive […]

According to Vandasta’s report from Aug 2016, 40% of consumers form an opinion after reading one to three reviews and 80% trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation.   […]

(Image credit:Hubble_esa) Sourcing Potential With 1.71 billion monthly active members, statistically, Facebook has been harbouring the world’s largest pool of talent for years. It’s about time then, that yesterday Facebook […]

Wade, Wendy and the world’s first robot lawyer- lessons learnt from Broadbean & Peter Gold’s Webinar #recruitinganalytics In yesterday’s webinar with Peter Gold, we took a peek into the world […]