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Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Steven
Here at Insight Recruitment, we’re excited to further grow our UK Tech team as we aim to explore new markets. Steven Branch joins the Insight family in the position of Recruitment Consultant.
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Megan
Here at Insight Recruitment, we're excited to further grow our UK Tech team as we aim to explore new markets. Megan Valentine joins the Insight family in the position of Recruitment Consultant.About Megan: As a Recruitment Consultant at Insight, I specialise in the...
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Jake
Meet Jake Henshaw-Cox our new Recruitment Consultant, specialising in the Data Engineering market. Jake has fitted seamlessly into the Insight family, collaborating with the wider UK Tech team as well as demonstrating our values through his driven and supportive work ethic. Although new to the Recruitment Industry, he has shown great enthusiasm to progress within his market and deliver a highly knowledgeable recruitment service to his clients.
Meet Our New Engineering Team Member – Leah
Meet Leah Owen our new Senior Recruitment Consultant, specialising in the Data Centre industry. Leah has shown great enthusiasm to work within a new market, after gaining 5 years of recruitment experience within the Healthcare industry. Her knowledge and expertise along with a mission critical mindset promises to help Insight’s Data Centre division reach new heights in 2022!
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Will
Meet Will Plant our new Product & Business Change Practice Lead. Will joins our ever-expanding Tech division as we look to explore new markets in 2022. He has integrated seamlessly at Insight, having embodied our supportive and collaborative culture as well as demonstrating our purpose of Empowering Sustainable Growth.
Meet Our New Engineering Team Member – Natalie
Meet our new Recruitment Consultant Natalie Taylor, who joins our Utilities division. Natalie has shown a great understanding of our values and purpose at Insight with a driven and innovative work ethic as well as adopting a supportive approach with candidates and clients to help empower career growth. Although new to the Engineering Recruitment industry, she has integrated seamlessly into the Insight family working superbly alongside our Utilities and T&D specialist Recruiter Tim Godwin.
Meet Our New Engineering Team Member – Benjamin
Meet Benjamin Durand our new HSE Consultant. Ben joins our Engineering team as part of our ever-growing Data Centre practice, providing a truly resourceful recruitment service with over 5 years of industry experience. He has integrated seamlessly into the Insight family with a success-driven approach to all his work which aligns with our company values and purpose of Empowering Sustainable Growth.
Meet Our New Support Team Member – Leanne
Meet Leanne May our new Business Operations Director. Leanne will be working with our Business Support Team and Recruitment Consultants to improve the efficiency of business processes across the office and support the strategic alignment of business operations between each practice.
With over 10 years of experience in the Recruitment industry, we are delighted she chose to take the next step in her career at Insight.
Meet Our New Tech Team Member – Oliver
Meet Oliver Bentley, who has recently joined our Tech team as a PHP Recruitment Consultant. Oliver has shown a great understanding of our values and purpose at Insight with an innovative and target-driven attitude towards all his work so far. Although new to the Recruitment industry, he shows a real passion for career growth and adopts a recruitment service based on building lasting relationships with all his clients.
We’re incredibly proud he chose to start his recruitment career with us, and we look forward to supporting and sharing his future success.
Let’s Get Inclusive Spotlights: Mel Venner
ABOUT MEL: Combining a background in neuroscience with an international recruitment career, Mel has been able to innovate the way people “learn” in workplaces all over the world. She is the Founder of Instinct Performance a company that provides Sales, Leadership,...
An Insight Into Mental Health Tech
Amid funding shortages and an explosion in demand for mental health care, experts have noted technology has to potential to bridge gaps in access to services, improve the quality of care and deliver personalised treatments, all while helping to alleviate the pressures on traditional healthcare systems. In support of Mental Health Awareness Week, we explore the world of Mental Health Tech, highlighting our top five apps in the market with ORCHA scores of above 70%
Let’s Get Inclusive Spotlights: Rachel Wallace
Rachel Wallace is a Robotics Automation Engineering Manager at HighRes Biosolutions. Enabling a department of Automation and Liquid Handling Engineers that write code and deploy integrated robotics systems that helps labs and pharma test for Covid-19 and other experiments faster, more consistently, and in an automated fashion. She has over a decade’s experience within management positions at a variety of engineering and tech companies and is passionate about diversity and inclusion within these spaces.
Health-Tech in the Hot Seat: Is innovation set to continue post-pandemic?
Heightened by the pandemic, digital advances and new technology are continuing to revolutionise healthcare. In 2020, global venture capital investment for healthtech innovators reached its highest figure to date ($14 billion), with nearly two-thirds of total funding Series C and above. There are now over 3,000 health-tech start-ups and scale-ups within the UK, with 400 of these companies recording high growth (over 20% annually).
The War on Video
There’s no questioning that virtual conferencing and video-based services have been critical to business continuity throughout the course of the pandemic. However, with the abundance of video across are we entering a new wave of video-platform fatigue?
The UK’s New Decarbonisation Strategy
The UK government has announced a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, setting out its vision to create a low-carbon industrial sector and dramatically slash emissions from public buildings. It has called the strategy “an ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector”, promising over £1 billion in funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals.
Celebrating Women in Engineering
The underrepresentation of women in Engineering is a global issue that has proven hard to address. Whilst the industry has come a long way in terms of equality and the statistics in terms of women in STEM-related higher education, the employment of female engineers, and the number of women achieving management or high-level leadership positions is on the rise. Constant pressure is needed to effect real systemic and cultural change.
Tech for Good: the future of positive change
Tech for Good companies are successfully carving out a new niche within the industry. In an increasingly woke society, people are prepared to engage in difficult discussions and catapult injustices into the mainstream. Tech is being used to amplify messages and find creative solutions to everyday, systemic and global problems.
Our Growth
Here at Insight Recruitment, we’ve been delighted to strengthen our team by making some strategic hires at the beginning of 2021!
The Rise of the Sustainable Data Centre
Data Centres have been crucial to the survival of many businesses during the pandemic. However, as large consumers of resources, from energy consumption to water usage, Data Centres will be put under the microscope when it comes to sustainability moving forwards.
Empowering Sustainable Growth…
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Insight Into… Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent in Digital in the North
Insight Into Volume 4: Innovation Panel Talk
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