Blogs

​How Has Skillfinder International Prepared For Brexit?Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. Despite almost three and half years passing since the referendum – the UK’s exit from the EU is still the hot topic on everyone’s lips. This is especially true at Skillfinder International, with roughly 70% of our work taking place in Europe. Therefore, creating a steering committee and successful...

​Are female diversity initiatives in tech an outdated way of pursuing equality? In the UK, and across the world, it’s widely acknowledged that the technology industry has a diversity problem. Time and again, facts and figures are released showing the huge gender disparity within the sector. With women making up just 16.8% of the UK tech workforce, change couldn’t come any so...

The three-sheet interview prep technique Preparation is the key to doing well at an interview, but where exactly do you start and finish? At Skillfinder, we use a simple process to help our candidates prepare for a big interview using just three sheets of paper.In a world where your personal brand is becoming increasingly important, you can’t afford to turn up and wing-it at...

​Eight office rules to make everybody miserable It’s fair enough to have rules to govern processes, behaviour and conduct in an office environment. However, if management responds to every instance of bad behaviour by creating a new item in the office rulebook then the situation quickly becomes nightmarish. These are just some of the terrible rules that businesses come up wi...

Let's speed up getting to gender equality in techIT is still one of the industries that is faltering when it comes to gender equality - we need to pick up the pace on fixing it now. While things are slowly getting better, gender diversity will be a prerequisite for a company to thrive in the future, so it's down to everyone in the sector to stop dragging their feet on this i...