24/9/2015 Businesses need to consider new techniques for talent Following the huge success of the IP 100 event hosted by Nine Twenty in Glasgow last week, we thought it would be a good idea to record some of the ideas promoted by our very own MD Gordon Brown . To give a bit of background let us bring you Gordon’s...
13/8/2015 Tried Googling “Google+”? what have crisps got to do with it? Try it (Google+, not the crisps, yet). Obviously (it is Google after all) it comes up top of the organic search results. However, somewhere on page 1 there will be one or more articles about the problems/failure/disaster that is Google+. A recent
11/8/2015 Greatest Scottish Scientific and Engineering feats We rather like this infographic . It shows some of the world’s greatest engineering projects, ranging from the trans-Siberian railway to the Panama canal. It got us wondering, what are Scotland’s greatest engineering feats? A quick search
21/7/2015 Scottish Technology Industry Survey 2015 Nine Twenty are proud sponsors for another year of the ScotlandIS Technology Industry Survey . The barometer for the health and trends of the industry. And you can view it right here... If you wish to download a copy of the survey then
29/6/2015 Cyber warfare and security – it’s not a question of niceties A friend had his bank account scammed the other day. In discussion with them, he was told that there were several signs that the account was compromised. He was somewhat annoyed that the bank had done nothing about it until it was too late and quite
25/6/2015 Come along to our Candidate Open Day! Nine Twenty Technology are hosting their next Candidate Open Day on Wednesday 1st July 2015. Our experienced team will be on hand to meet with you, at our offices for a chat, offering free advice (and free coffee!) to those who are looking for som
15/6/2015 The art and craft of BIG Data in the battle for talent - Part Three. This is the final part of my series of blogs on big data and how they are used by recruiters. As I’ve stressed throughout, big data is important. We must take advantage of the technology that already exists and that which will be developed in the f
8/6/2015 The art and craft of BIG Data in the battle for talent - Part Two. If you were with me last week, I’m discussing big data and how we recruiters use it, for better or worse, to identify and communicate with passive talent. I noted that, for recruiters, Linkedin is the biggest, general source of data (in our c
1/6/2015 The art and craft of BIG Data in the battle for talent - Part One. I was first introduced to the concept of big data a few years ago working for a specialist Insight & Analytics Consultancy. In reality, the idea (although it wasn’t called Big Data then) is decades old. The fact that there are some data sets that