Although the UK is experiencing a skills gap crisis, new research suggests it may remain that way as young people admit they’re snubbing employment within companies in order to start their own operations that they can run from home.
By Jenny Taylor
There has been a great deal of debate about the effect of Brexit from an economic, societal and cultural perspective, and education is no exception, says IBM’s Jenny Taylor.
Heavyweight boxer David Haye has used his platform to champion British business, contributing to a £2.65m seed investment round for recruitment app Syft alongside David Cameron’s former enterprise advisor Lord Young.
It’s almost impossible to find an organisation today that does not have some kind of diversity initiative. The tech industry in particular has faced some criticism for its homogeneous workforce.
By Bryan Adams
Leading brands are shifting their focus to candidate centricity. To compete with the noise, your brand must offer more than just great customer service.
Part of the Tech City UK initiative, Tech East has been formed to bring together the most prominent tech hubs dotted across the East of England with a view of bolstering the region’s investment and talent opportunities.
If you run a business where you can’t afford to pay a proper wage, then you’re not running a proper business.
Schools, colleges and universities aren’t making enough young people “world-ready”, let alone “work-ready” and by the time they come to employers like me they may be hungry for a job, but they don’t often have the real skills they need to enter the workplace no matter how many bits of paper they bring after passing their exams.
By Andrew Moore
In the modern business world working practices and the work environment have changed more rapidly in the last ten years than at any time since the industrial revolution. How do we retain our skills base
Kanye West wants to be known as an entrepreneur, not a rapper, and following his request for $1bn of investment from Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian’s husband has kept littering Twitter with his thoughts. As such, Real Business found the eccentric celebrity businessman has the skills to fill numerous job roles.
