In Depth

In Depth

IT jobs and recruitment

• UK technology recruitment: Turn on the talent

  The hottest tech skills will always be in short supply and UK businesses increasingly struggle to find competent people to fill digital roles. But do companies’ approach to recruitment need to change?  Continue Reading

• Assessing the disparate initiatives tackling the UK’s technology skills gap

  As the UK’s skills gap widens, initiatives aim to ensure the population has the skills needed for roles now and in the future, but are these disparate efforts helping or hindering the cause?  Continue Reading

• What are the retail jobs that don’t exist yet?

  As in many industries, technology and new consumer behaviour is changing the shape of retail. But what yet-to-be-created jobs are on the horizon for the sector?  Continue Reading

• Four CIO trends to watch in 2018

  As automation becomes more popular, bringing with it plenty of opportunities, 2018 is all about investing in in-house skills and innovation, with a focus on equality and flexibility  Continue Reading

• DevOps in the public sector: Assessing the challenges and the benefits

  Public sector IT leaders trying to transform the way their organisation works using DevOps talk about the challenges they face  Continue Reading

• How Southeast Asia is keeping pace with AI

  Forward-looking organisations in the region are embracing artificial intelligence, but uneven access to connectivity and a lack of skills and understanding of the technology are holding back wider adoption  Continue Reading

• Brexit uncertainty dominates UK’s digital conversation

  Uncertainty over the impact of Brexit dominated conversations at TechUK’s second annual Supercharging the Digital Economy event. Can technology really lessen the impact?  Continue Reading

• Malaysian women making their mark in IT

  There is no limit to what women can achieve in Malaysia’s IT industry, as a small but growing group of prominent women IT leaders in the country has found  Continue Reading

• Breaking the glass ceiling in IT

  The CIO of Malaysia’s Prince Court Medical Centre has broken the glass ceiling for women in technology in a 20-year career that has progressed from selling IT products to setting up her own IT consulting firm  Continue Reading

• From chemistry researcher to IT luminary

  Inspired by the potential of technology to change the world, Chong Yoke Sin went from calculating the strength of molecular bonds to driving one of Singapore’s biggest IT initiatives  Continue Reading

• How AI can aid, not replace, humans in recruitment

  Artificial intelligence is gaining prominence in a number of industries and brings advantages and disadvantages in the field of recruitment  Continue Reading

• The correlation between creativity, diversity and the future tech workforce

  Many believe the UK computing curriculum should put more emphasis on creativity to prepare young people for an automated future  Continue Reading

• Why and how men in the technology industry have helped women progress

  Many have argued gender parity will not happen in the technology industry without help from the top. Since the top is predominantly male, we’ve reached out to some of the men in the industry who are helping to drive tech equality  Continue Reading

• How will automation affect the IT skills gap?

  According to research, automation is putting some job roles at risk, but could it also be the answer to the growing IT skills gap?  Continue Reading

• BP stresses importance of apprentices to its DevOps and digital transformation plans

  BP explains why IT apprentices are central to the success of its agile and DevOps ambitions, as well as its wider digital transformation programme  Continue Reading