How Searchability are Helping Clients during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Delivering a great service to our clients is always a top priority for us here at Searchability, and during the COVID-19 pandemic we have adapted our way of working so that we can continue to do this at the highest levels, whilst protecting the health and safety of our team. We know that this is […]
Software Engineering Home Counties: Daniel Jones shares his insights during Lockdown
As a recruitment agency who specialises in the IT and Digital sectors, Searchability has witnessed a number of changes in behaviour from companies and candidates first hand, giving them incredible market insights that enable them to successfully place tech talent across the UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented situation upon our industry, with […]
Software Engineering London – Steve Williams shares his hiring insights during Lockdown
As the Searchability team works through the UK lockdown, based remotely from their homes to ensure clients urgent tech vacancies are filled, we stopped to take a look back at everything we have learnt from recruiting across the tech digital sector during this time. As one of our largest and busiest recruitment markets, we have […]
What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on the tech industry?
After two months of UK Lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 many of us are slowly starting to adapt to the “new normal” of social distancing and spending the majority of our time at home. When the news first broke about the lockdown measures we saw a lot of organisations hitting the pause button […]
Gabbi Trotter shares her insights from May’s QA Beginners Club Digital Event
The lockdown and social distancing guidelines has lead to a number of tech meetup’s and events being cancelled, however many organisers have adapted quickly to deliver digital experiences that allow attendees to join virtually from their homes. Last night Searchability’s Head of Software Testing Recruitment Gabbi Trotter was asked to deliver a talk at the QA Beginners Club’s first […]
Byte of Tech – Dan Englishby
Whether you are new to the tech community on twitter or a long standing member we’re sure you’ll know of Dan Englishby. We got the opportunity to talk with Dan and discuss his inspirational platform CodeWall, working within the new normal and life on social media. Hi Dan, we all know you as the Founder […]
Don’t be fooled on April Fools
April Fools, it comes once a year but does it really ever go as planned? There are always people that completely forget about it and those that take it way too far! Here are some of the best and worst April Fool’s pranks: The Messy Toilet When we were children, we all at some point […]
Bringing events online – How to keep networking during Covid19
As fear over COVID-19 escalates and in-person gatherings are discouraged, more than 200 large-scale conferences have been cancelled––including Mobile World Conference, Adobe Summit, Facebook F8, Google Cloud Next, SXSW, Microsoft’s MVP Summit, IBM Think, and a slew of others. Some organisations have decided to simply shut down or reschedule at a later date. But other companies […]
Ada’s List
What is Ada’s List? Merici Vinton set up Ada’s List in 2013 as an email-based community for women working in technology and digital. Named for computing pioneer Ada Lovelace, the list currently has over 7,000 worldwide members, who get the opportunity to share job listings, announce conference panels and calls for submissions, get informal mentoring and share […]
How high street brands are becoming digitilised by women in tech
With the high streets being digitally taken over by the use of smart devices and direct delivery to your door, the retail world is undergoing intense seismic pressures. Alongside this innovation, lots of high street brands are coming to terms with restaurants, charity shops, estate agents, banks and more are having to adapt to these […]