Thanks to Russian start-up, Robot Vera, robot recruiters are now a reality. Before you launch into a bunch of jokes comparing real recruitment consultants to their AI counterparts, humanoid recruiters aren’t going anywhere just yet.
As artificial intelligence (AI) forges ahead, the automation of jobs continues. As a result, where technical skills were the mainstay of most IT professional’s CVs, soft skills are now becoming increasingly important qualities to look for in candidates. The time has come for employers to give greater attention to the human qualities of candidates…
The Top 40 IM Skills The global Intelligent Mobility (IM) market is expected to be worth £900 billion by 2025, according to a report by Transport Catapult Systems. In their research, they identified the critical skills required by the UK if we are, as a nation, to secure significant share of that growth in…
Why You Should Work for a Tech Start-Up From machine learning and AI to intelligent mobility and IoT, there are many exciting career routes for programmers, developers and IT pros looking for a move into new technologies. Often, however, these emerging fields are difficult to get into without good project experience. Start-ups could offer…
The Top Tech Skills in 2018 The tech world moves pretty fast, which means that employers and professionals in the space are in a continuous race to ensure the talent they have is relevant to today’s requirements. Whether you’re recruiting or looking for your next career move, it pays to keep an eye on…
How to Future-Proof Your IT Career There’s a glaring recruitment challenge faced by all employers hiring for emerging tech roles in that a proportion of the specific skills required for IoT, AI and intelligent mobility don’t actually exist yet – well, not in their exact form. What we do have instead, and in…
The CDO’s Role has Changed Driven by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) role is changing and expanding to one that, in many cases, is working alongside or merging with the traditional CIO role. Originally, CDO hires were driven by the increase in big data responsibilities and…
You’d be hard-pressed to find an industry that isn’t going to be affected by AI and machine learning in the coming years so it’s no surprise that machine learning skills are currently in great demand – and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. In addition to the core bank of skills you…
Fancy a Job Designing Human Parts or Exploring Space Debris? You’re in Luck! As we enter Industry 4.0, the debate and fear surrounding which jobs will be taken over by robots has hit fever pitch but do we really need to worry? No, we don’t, according to research from PWC and Microsoft. Far from A.I…
What impact will industry 4.0 have on the jobs market? As the rocky year of 2016 drew to a close, the government provided a beacon of hope when they pledged £2billion to boost our developments in industry, science and technology, and spoke of a new mission to recruit three million apprentices by 2020 to…