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​The top complementary skills to help technology workers in 2020It’s common knowledge that the tech industry can be an intensely competitive area, especially when it comes to landing the top jobs. Therefore, it’s important that candidates, and anyone trying to reach their full potential, has as much of a rounded skill set as possible. So, without further ado, here’s the top ...

USA SimCorp Dimension Market will evolve in 2020With the FinTech market ever-evolving and adapting, SimCorp has also been evolving its product. Next year, this will make an important shift in the USA’s SimCorp Dimension jobs market.As a specialist SimCorp Dimension recruiter, I spend most of my time working with SimCorp professionals, people that need them and directly with ...

Should you be working a four day work week?Currently, it seems that the prospect of working a four day week is being widely discussed about everywhere. Recently, John McDonnell the Shadow Chancellor announced at the Labour Party annual conference in September 2019, that Labour would be looking to reduce the UK’s working hours to 32 hours within the decade and would be pushin...

Five Counterproductive Habits That Kill Your ProductivityIt’s common knowledge that the UK is suffering from a productivity gap. In recent years, there has been a deluge of figures to suggest that UK workers simply don’t deliver as much output as their overseas counterparts. In fact, this gap has become so acute that ex-chancellor Phillip Hammond even suggested that ‘it take...

​Has your consultancy prepared for the IR35 changes happening in April 2020?After Brexit, one of the largest concerns for our clients and consultants has arguably been the roll out of changes to off-payroll working, or IR35, into the private sector. At Skillfinder International, we’re a consultancy that embraces change of any kind – and we’ve taken every step to ensure that ...