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Why dual-promotion is the best way to get ahead

Wouldn’t it be great if you only had to focus on your work to get ahead? If you didn’t need to advocate for yourself to get the credibility and visibility you need to receive a promotion? Unfortunately, that is not reality. Focusing on your performance alone is no guarantee that you will be rewarded and recognised. If you are lucky, you will meet s...

29 September 2023 /people

UK Fintech stays a safe bet for tech workers

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

UK Fintech stays a safe bet for tech workers

Despite remaining the centre of European fintech investment and attracting more funding than any other country in the EMEA region, London has witnessed a 57% decline in fintech investment in the past year. According to data compiled by KPMG, investment dropped to £4.6 billion in the first half of 2023 compared to the £10.8 billion witnessed in 2022...

22 September 2023 /people

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

How to spot a toxic workplace

Toxic as a term has been creeping into the lexicon for a number of years. From toxic relationships to masculinity, friendships, family and more; in 2018, Oxford Dictionaries chose it as its international word of the year. The reason toxic came out on top was less to do with numbers and more to do with the variety of contexts to which it was being a...

01 September 2023 /people

3 leading UK fintechs are hiring for remote roles

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

3 leading UK fintechs are hiring for remote roles

Remote working is the great debate that doesn’t look like it’s to be getting resolved anytime soon. Recent data compiled by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) found that 84% of workers plan on carrying out a mix of working at home and working in the office post-pandemic. Separate data from RingCentral established that 60% of UK workers would r...

25 August 2023 /people

UK finance and tech sectors merely pay lip service to diversity and inclusion

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

UK finance and tech sectors merely pay lip service to diversity and inclusion

As ESG guidelines have become mainstream in the financial industry, financial organisations have been implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks to keep up with the times and stay relevant amidst social and cultural changes in the industry. However, data from the FDM Group reveals that UK companies in the finance and banking se...

24 August 2023 /people

Why the UK is an insurtech powerhouse primed for expansion

Sarah Kiely Lavelle Contributor at Amply

Why the UK is an insurtech powerhouse primed for expansion

The UK has firmly positioned itself as a global leader in the insurtech sector with a market value of over $20 billion placing it third in the world. China followed second at an approximate $28 billion valuation, with the US securing the top spot at $100 billion. However, when the population size of each nation was factored in, the UK reigned supr...

18 August 2023 /people

Why are fewer women negotiating pay raises?

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Why are fewer women negotiating pay raises?

From the number of men holding senior leadership positions to women avoiding certain male-dominated industries, gender inequality within the workplace is a multifaceted issue. One area where it remains particularly prevalent is pay negotiations––or lack thereof––if a recent study into the salary negotiation habits of workers in the UK and Ireland

11 August 2023 /people

Breaking into Fintech: Here’s how to get hired at ClearBank

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Breaking into Fintech: Here’s how to get hired at ClearBank

For Finextra’s latest Breaking into Fintech, we sat down with Nadine Adams, head of human resources at ClearBank, a cloud-based clearing bank that offers APIs and financial services to financial institutions. Adams confers how there is no one ‘ideal candidate’ when hiring and that company values are at the heart of the discussion. What top tips c...

07 August 2023 /people

The most AI-ready UK cities for your job hunt

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

The most AI-ready UK cities for your job hunt

With interest in generative AI exploding–– trends site Exploding Topics reports a 1,143% increase in search interest in “AI voice generator” and a 268% increase in searches for “AI coach”––the technology has moved out of the realm of tech-savvy early adopters. So much so that recent research from CybSafe found that 52% of UK office workers have ent...

04 August 2023 /people

Should tech move past toxic slogan culture?

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Should tech move past toxic slogan culture?

While Mark Zuckerberg’s famous “move fast and break things” mantra may serve him well during his unconfirmed MMA cage fight with Elon Musk, is this way of thinking still facilitating growth and innovation? In the last 18 months, Zuckerberg’s Meta has made over 21,000 staff redundant and has implemented a “Year of Efficiency” to offset the huge los...

28 July 2023 /people

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Web3 job searches increase by 1957%

Waves of hype swell up regularly in the tech world. The latest obsession is with AI. With the potential for AI tools to be used across most industries, and new roles being created as a result, it’s no surprise that AI is capturing attention. However, not too long ago, the obsession was with Web3. Web3 and AI are not so different; essentially, they ...

21 July 2023 /people

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

Key tech jobs to apply for this week

An unexplored aspect of 2022 and 2023’s tech and finance layoffs is that of the hundreds of thousands of jobs that were made redundant globally, many were not across purely tech functions. Roger Lee, founder of job cuts bible Layoffs.fyi says that “sales is the most common role, accounting for 20% of the laid-off tech workers. Recruiting and HR are...

14 July 2023 /people

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