News, views and information about Elan and the world of work
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Programming in 2012
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26/01/2012
If you’re a programmer then 2012 doesn’t look like being a year to make any drastic changes to your coding repertoire. The end of 2011 saw...
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- Teaching a Man Not to Fish is Humanly Possible
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09/01/2012
Elan parent company, ManpowerGroup, today released its fourth Corporate Social Responsibility Update, entitled "Teaching a Man Not to Fish is Humanly ...
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2012 - Apprehension and opportunity
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05/01/2012
To invest or not to invest, that is the dilemma faced by the Hamlets of the UK recruitment industry in Q1 of 2012. Because the only things we ca...
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- Four Pillars of Business
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29/12/2011
Those engaged in enterprise resource planning (ERP) or on SAP contract jobs might be interested to hear that Vinay Iyer, vice...
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"Technical debt" leading to real IT problems
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16/12/2011
A problem known as "technical debt" - where poor programming and architectural and coding practices cause problems later in the life cycle of a progra...
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- Has candidate loyalty to agencies disappeared?
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12/12/2011
Long, long ago, candidates would skip through summer meadows, hand in hand with recruitment agencies; the agency would find the candidate a wonderful ...
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C# hacks at C++ lead
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08/12/2011
There was good news this week for anyone looking for C# jobs, as the Microsoft language's growing popularity with developers put it&nbs...
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- Top Secret Recruiting
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02/12/2011
GCHQ, the UK's code-breaking and hacking capital, is looking to recruit a new generation of spies and has come up with a unique way of doing it.
Th...
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Candidates must try harder with CVs
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29/11/2011
Jobseekers in the UK need to work harder on their CVs if they're to land the jobs they want.
That's the conclusion of a recent survey by recruiters...
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- Economic stress = employee stress
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25/11/2011
Half of UK employees are under more stress than they were in 2010, and many don't see the situation changing anytime soon, says a new report.
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