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Last year will be unique in many ways, but one thing that will be repeated in 2022 is that hiring will still be tough. Unlike previous economic shocks there is no big pool of talent that has lost their jobs. We still have significantly less qualified people per job opening, so you’ll need to work hard to capture the right people.
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Alan Furley
25.01.2022
Right out of the gate, 2021 felt like the year that the world of late-stage investing was turned upside down. The invasion of non-traditional investors (“NTIs”) such as Private Equity Firms into the startup funding scene scrambled the rules about valuation and metrics that venture capitalists and entrepreneurs had spent decades refining.
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21.01.2022
Recent research from Handshake has revealed that 67% of Gen Z professionals no longer believe they must have in-person interactions with professional connections to form meaningful relationships.
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Bradley Foster
18.01.2022
Much has been written about the astonishing rate of change within the financial services (FS) sector. The rapid proliferation of fintechs, the rise of banking-as-a-service (BaaS), and the many innovative new financial products and services on the market are remarkable, and to the tech-savvy and financially stable reader, this can only be good news, right?
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Ion Fratiloiu
18.01.2022
The freelance industry has accelerated in the last decade, with more and more people opting to escape the traditional 9 to 5 working routine or make some extra income on the side.
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Alejandro Turell
12.01.2022
As Richard Branson once remarked, "If you ask any successful businessperson, they will always have had a great mentor at some point along the road."
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Lucci Levi
11.01.2022
Although freelancers make up more than four million people, a massive part of the British economy, they have long been undervalued and overlooked. Being self-employed can offer flexibility and autonomy in a number of varied sectors. However, significant stigma and snobbery around self-employment remains.
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Derek Reynolds
06.01.2022
The virtual events space blew up during the pandemic, with platforms like Hopin being valued at $7.75B when just two years old. A number of other hybrid and virtual event platforms have mushroomed over the last 12 months, with most of them optimised for the lucrative conferences, expos and webinars market.
05.01.2022
The language we use to describe ourselves and others has the power to attract, and alienate – the latter often unintentionally, and even when such descriptors come from a place of progress.
04.01.2022
Digital media is a tricky phenomenon. It expands the growth of the economy, provides people with new forms of income, and fosters connection, but it can also facilitate bullying, harassment and cause mental health problems.
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Anton Volovyk
31.12.2021
Investors have traditionally been seen as intimidating entities who entrepreneurs must dance for, cap in hand, to raise funds. But times have changed rapidly.
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Jeffrey Faustin
30.12.2021
The combined value of European-founded deeptech companies now exceeds $845B, and counting. Since 2010, the percentage of European venture capital being funnelled into deeptech companies has more than doubled, and 2020 saw investments into the sector surpass €10B.
28.12.2021
We are typing anything and everything into search engines and on social media. And with the rise in activism, quest for authenticity, social good, meaning and purpose, branding is getting personal.
27.12.2021
Companies of all sizes are realising that making are effort outside of the office is good for business and are embracing ESG (environmental, social and governance) or, as it’s more commonly known, sustainability.
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Pete Martin
23.12.2021
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