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Dilbertization: When Pointy-Haired Bosses Take Over Your Org Chart
24 November 2023In a world where promotions sometimes mirror the absurdities of a Dilbert comic, we delve into the Dilbert Dilemma. Join us on a story of incompetence in corporate promotions, exploring the real-world consequences of promoting based on tenure rather than competence. Learn how to navigate the challenges posed by the Dilbert Effect and foster a culture of meritocracy.
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Job Spec Teardown - Breaking Down the Jargon in a Technical Job Post - Web Front End Edition
08 November 2023Recruit Web Front End Talent with Confidence: A beginner-friendly guide for recruiters. Understand web front-end hiring in plain English, no jargon, just straightforward insights for efficient recruiting.
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Dive deep into the world of Java development as we demystify jargon, explain requirements, and highlight essential skills. Perfect for recruiters seeking clarity in technical job listings. Your ultimate cheatsheet to bridge the gap between job specs and candidate expertise!
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The American Dream, Out of Reach
24 October 2023As home prices soar, homeownership is becoming unattainable for more and more Americans. Will this squeeze lead to demands for higher pay and more inflation?
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UK Jobs Growth Falters While Employment Rate Slips
23 October 2023Latest ONS figures show signs of weakness in the UK labour market as job creation stalls and employment rate declines.
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Future of Work: The Rise of Soft Humanoids and AI Uncertainties
20 October 2023Remember when cool new software ideas could take off? As AI powers relentless disruption, today's visionary startups face extinction before users even adopt. Is software innovation now hopeless?
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The remote work revolution has unleashed a growing class of digital nomads - mobile professionals living and earning income across borders and jurisdictions. But most tax systems still rely on antiquated location-based rules conceived a century ago. As governments compete for footloose yet high-value remote talent, urgently needed reforms aim to reduce friction through cooperation. Learn how an international treaty spearheaded by the OECD signals the next evolution in how remote work is taxed globally.
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UK Pay Growth Stalls Amid Job Market Slowdown
16 October 2023The latest data shows median earnings rose 5.7% annually amid rising inflation, but the pace of job gains has slowed down. Read more on the trends in pay, employment, and differences across regions and industries.
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The Fed is keeping a close eye on the gap between job openings and unemployed as it tries to ease wage growth pressures. See the latest JOLTS data.
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Job Spec Teardown - Breaking Down the Jargon in a Technical Job Post - DevOps Edition
04 October 2023This post delivers an indispensable cheatsheet for technical recruiters seeking to crack the code on those perplexing DevOps job specs. We'll dive deep on must-know technologies like CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and monitoring to boost your DevOps IQ. With this quick but comprehensive primer on the essential DevOps lexicon, recruiters can read between the lines and find and evaluate qualified engineering talent with newfound confidence and ease. Get ready to demystify those fuzzy technical terms and optimize your searches! Happy hunting for top DevOps talent!
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The future is plain English in plain text files
02 October 2023The future may be less about rigid schemas and more about language itself. Read on to see how plain text can become the lightest yet most adaptable medium for data in the AI age.
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Cloud Computing at a Crossroads: A Decade of Hardware Advancements
25 September 2023What if tomorrow's startups need only a few web servers, SQLite, and a cluster of GPUs to build leading-edge applications augmented by AI? And what if the economics massively favor on-premises GPU hardware access over renting cloud instances?
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Job Spec Teardown - Breaking Down the Jargon in a Technical Job Post - Windows IT Edition
20 September 2023New to technical recruitment? This former Microsoft support engineer breaks down a complex IT infrastructure job spec step-by-step to demystify the jargon. Learn to accurately interpret and match candidate skills.
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UK Labour Market Cools as Vacancies and Employment Decline
12 September 2023The latest ONS data shows signs of weakening in the UK labour market, with falling employment, rising unemployment, and fewer job vacancies.
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Decrypting the EU's Digital Markets Act: Interop FTW or Trojan Horse?
06 September 2023Messaging interoperability sounds appealing, but may mask government motives to weaken encryption through regulation.
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Maximizing Brand Exposure with Branded Business Cards in Zipwire
01 September 2023Understand how branded business cards in Zipwire create effective touchpoints between agencies, talent, and hiring companies.
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US Job Openings Slide in July, Signaling Slowing Momentum
30 August 2023The latest JOLTS report shows US job openings decreased 338,000 in July, suggesting slowing economic momentum as rising rates bite.
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The rise of remote work brings new complexities in setting pay amidst a globally connected talent pool. As location becomes more fluid for knowledge workers, should compensation be standardized or localized? We dive into the key arguments around adjusting pay based on geography versus a borderless flat rate model.
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Token On-Ramps: It's Not All About the Benjamins
21 August 2023The wise traveler knows a road closure marks not the end, but the start of a more enlightening path. Let your journey continue as we unveil the true on-ramp beyond fiat - one that connects to real utility.
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Sleek offices yet clunky software? Your digital tools impact talent attraction more than aesthetic perks. This article explores why disjointed workflows and outdated platforms reflect poorly on employer brand.
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Software Ate the World: Neural Databases Will Eat Software
10 August 2023Software eats itself. AI databases rise. Established companies fall. Neural networks rule. Humans adapt. Early movers prosper. The quick inherit the future.
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Top Identity Verification Solutions for Businesses in 2023
01 August 2023Discover the top 9 identity verification solutions in 2023 that leverage AI and biometrics to seamlessly verify applicants and employees remotely. Learn how these leading platforms can help your recruitment business prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and improve applicant onboarding.
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Optimizing flawed systems only goes so far. For real improvement, we need the courage to "break" processes and rebuild them from scratch.
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Plastic Forks and Paper Plates: When AI Writes Code
22 July 2023Instant code generation promises to revolutionize software development. What happens when we can treat code as cheap and disposable as plastic cutlery?
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UK Job Vacancies Plummet, Stoking Recession Fears
17 July 2023Job vacancies in the UK have plunged over 24% in the last year, stoking fears that the country may be headed for a recession. The evaporating openings present a challenge for the government ahead of elections and are the latest sign of a faltering post-pandemic recovery.
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Most people focus on one thing, because we instinctively think focusing intently on one thing is optimal. But that's perhaps wrong.
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Say goodbye to REST APIs and hello to Chat APIs. How Large Language Models will bring about radically new ways for machine-machine interaction and what role hypermedia plays in this new web paradigm.
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#PayROFL - The Secret Dysfunction of Contractor Pay
11 July 2023Not all heroes wear capes: the never-ending saga of contractor payment is a tale of woe and wonder, of triumph and tragedy. It's a story that will leave you breathless, or at least gasping for your next paycheck. Featuring Will Smith. Sort of.
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There's no library for this and little help. In this incredibly quick explainer, we'll detail how to secure your website with Google Authenticator two-step verification. Don't copy code from an unknown author and don't use an external QR code generator.
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Zipwire Releases Assigned Activities
01 July 2023Zipwire's new Assigned Activities feature allows managers to pre-populate time tracking activities for each user. Now workers instantly see the correct tasks to log time against, streamlining time tracking.
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Microservices are overkill for any new project but they do impose order on a codebase and help resist entropy and spaghetti. Is there are something in between a monolithic and a microservices architecture? Yes there is, and it's how Zipwire has been designed.
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Public holidays on timesheets
26 June 2023One of the biggest causes of timesheet rejection is people booking time against a bank holiday that they didn't actually work. And there's a very obvious solution that can't easily be implemented.
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