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The Zoom ceiling is the new glass ceiling

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

The Zoom ceiling is the new glass ceiling

In 1978, writer Marilyn Loden coined the term “the glass ceiling” to describe the often invisible barriers women and minorities face in the workplace. While women do not tend to experience difficulty entering organisations at lower-to-middle levels, they often get stuck when they seek to advance to leadership positions and their numbers dwindle. H...

28 October 2022 /people

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

These perks can add to your salary

In the post-pandemic world, perks like on-site meals and snacks, massages, and being able to conduct a team meeting from the comfort of an indoor hammock have lost their value. According to a new Work Trend Index study, 47% of workers are now more likely to put family and personal life over work than they were before the pandemic. In addition, 53%...

21 October 2022 /people

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

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

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

Sitting down with Tracey Wells, talent experience manager at Xero, we discussed how potential hires can learn about the fintech field and land their ideal position. The New Zealand-based software company specialises in cloud-based accounting software and has offices from New Zealand and Australia, to the UK, and US. What top tips can you offer cand...

20 October 2022 /people

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How to pivot into a tech career

Where once tech brought to mind things like system maintenance, computer programmes, software, and hardware, now it also encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, cybersecurity, and much more. These days, the tech industry is a catch-all term for a very varied working environment which expands by the year, if not the month. The industry is b...

14 October 2022 /people

Are Fridays in the office a thing of the past?

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Are Fridays in the office a thing of the past?

The four-day model and working from home are changing the shape of the working week. After the upheaval of the past few years, it is apparent that Fridays in the office are very much out of favour, and a recent survey by Consultancy Advanced Workplace Associates found that Fridays had just a 13% attendance rate in the office compared to 39% attend...

07 October 2022 /people

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here’s how to get hired at TotallyMoney

Our ‘Breaking into Fintech’ series seeks out advice from industry insiders about the best tactics to land a job in the fast-moving world of fintech. In our latest piece , we asked the CEO of TotallyMoney, Alistair Douglas, for his key candidate recommendations. TotallyMoney is a fintech that helps customers to determine their credit scores and cre...

06 October 2022 /people

Here’s how to make sure you get an inflation raise this year

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Here’s how to make sure you get an inflation raise this year

Salary bumps of up to 30% for new hires, four day work weeks, and other non-financial benefits are just a few of the perks job seekers are experiencing as a result of the Great Resignation - but what about the workers that are left behind? With companies experiencing a skills shortage on a global level, what is happening to the workers that are ch...

30 September 2022 /people

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UK's top 5 cloud companies to work for

How many cloud-based apps or services do you use each day? Three to five maybe, or a few more if you combine your personal apps with platforms you use throughout the working day, or maybe it’s a few more if you consider social media and online shopping, not to mention dating and finance apps – so seven sounds about right? It’s not; The average per...

23 September 2022 /people

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

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

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

Finextra went behind the scenes at NayaOne to quiz Ambar Vitelli, head of strategic partnerships, on the qualities the fintech is looking for in new hires. NayaOne specialises in forging partnerships and delivering products across the financial sector through the employment of fintech-as-a-service and cloud technologies. The company aids banks, com...

22 September 2022 /people

Quiet firing and quiet quitting: TikTok trends hurting your career

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Quiet firing and quiet quitting: TikTok trends hurting your career

We are burned out, or so the experts say. Although we are not sure we need an impartial expert to tell us that the stress of the last two years coupled with rising inflation costs, ongoing political upheaval, and changing workplace norms has taken its toll. We lived through it. Experts, and counting psychologists, economists, and career coaches am...

13 September 2022 /people

The importance of determining your financial personality

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

The importance of determining your financial personality

Your financial personality influences your attitudes to money and investing, so understanding a bit more about it can help curb bad habits and build good ones. Just as there are optimists and pessimists, thinkers and doers, each of us has a financial personality that shapes our attitude towards money: spending, saving, and investing. The key is not...

08 September 2022 /people

Why working on holiday is bad for your job

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Why working on holiday is bad for your job

While TikTok is exalting the benefits of “quiet quitting”, the rest of us are over here pushing through the always-on culture of remaining connected to work – even when we’re on paid time off. We weren’t always like this. The shift to hybrid working has blurred formal boundaries separating work from our leisure time. After all, if you’re fitting yo...

02 September 2022 /people

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