IT Recruitment Blog

A leadership expert will be revealing how CIOs and other technology leaders can overcome the increasing complexities, ambiguities and paradoxes that big data creates at Crimson Innovation Conference 2019 (CiC19).

Keith Coats, a Leadership Expert who has worked with many senior level employees at blue chip organisations through his company TomorrowToday Global, believes that IT leaders are now being required to develop a range of new characteristics in order to successfully navigate an increasingly AI centric world. In his speech at CiC19, Keith will be outlining the essential skill sets the leaders of tomorrow will have to adopt to thrive in this environment. 

Harvey Nash Group’s Director of Marketing will be exploring the forces that will most affect technology leaders in 2019 live at Crimson's Innovation Conference (CiC19).

Rob Grimsey, who has worked within Harvey Nash Group for almost 20 years, will be sharing some of the insights gleaned from the organisation’s recent global CIO survey, compiled in association with KPMG.

Few markets are innovating quicker than the FinTech sector. And, within this hyper competitive race to provide consumers with the best products first, customer behavioural data can be the linchpin to securing competitive advantage.

Therefore, Crimson is thrilled to announce that Ashleigh Petrie, Senior Product Manager at Moneybox, will be describing how the investment app is ‘Putting behavioural data at the heart of FinTech product design’ at Crimson’s Innovation Conference 2019.

Crimson is delighted to disclose that the Head of Data Science at The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), aka Nudge Unit, will be addressing attendees at Crimson’s Innovation Conference 2019 (CiC19).

James Lawrence, who has headed BIT’s data science team for almost two and a half years, will be speaking on the topic: ‘Text mining: Unlocking the commercial value of text data’, in which he will be describing how data science can be a hugely beneficial tool not only for the public sector but also for commercial organisations.

Crimson is delighted to reveal that Vodafone’s Big Data guru will be explaining how the world’s largest communications organisations are harnessing the power of data at Crimson’s Innovation Conference 2019. 

Peter Chapman, Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics at the mobile giant, will be addressing the topic of ‘Industrialising Big Data and AI in telecommunications’ at the event, which has been curated for CIOs and technology leaders of major UK organisations.

Mobile phones are now the world’s biggest source of consumer data, with Ofcom reporting that 96% of UK households have adopted this technology. Peter will describe how Vodafone is putting this data and advanced analytics at the heart of the organisation, and how this capability is being used to drive commercial value and for social good.

Crimson is pleased to announce that award-winning writer Dr Ben Goldacre will be the keynote speaker at Crimson’s Innovation Conference in 2019.

Ben, who is also a doctor, broadcaster and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at University of Oxford, will be debating the famous revolutionary promise “We all know that data can change the world” but also, crucially, the various ways that data can be used to deceive: covering dodgy graphs, misleading analyses, and exquisitely deceptive artificial intelligence models.

It is Ben’s belief that “the more technical the world becomes, the more we must all raise our game, to avoid being caught out by digital snake oil”. His speech promises to be a lively, humorous, and thought-provoking presentation.

As you may know, I work as Business Development Manager at IT recruitment agency Crimson, and I specialise in providing the highest-quality IT contractor resources to UK organisations. Whilst I supply amazing clients across a range of industries, I have built a strong portfolio of clients across the housing and retail sectors over the last few years.

In my previous blog post ‘How to build a relationship with an IT recruitment agency’, I discussed the important role that IT recruitment agencies should play in your career progression strategy. But it's not always easy to get recruiters to buy into what you’re offering.

In the hyper competitive IT jobs market, a driven specialist IT recruitment consultant with a strong network could be the difference between you landing your dream job and being unemployed for months before being forced to accept an unsuitable opportunity. Therefore, it is critical that you know how to behave to get the most from this important relationship.

Opinions about CIOs’ agendas for 2019 vary.

Gartner, who surveyed more than 3000 CIOs in 89 countries (across all major industries), has suggested that most technology leaders have overseen successful digital transformations within their organisations. Digital transformation has been high on CIO agendas for several years. Now Gartner has stated that CIOs' primary objective for 2019 is to drive scale via digital channels to enhance CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT.

After the Brexit referendum outcome was announced in 2016, Crimson initially saw a slight softening in number of IT recruitment requirements from some of its clients. This was likely due to a ‘fear of the unknown’. However, the IT jobs market didn’t dwell on this for long, and good levels of activity continued throughout 2018. Come Friday 29 March 2019, the day scheduled for Britain to leave the EU, the market for tech talent may look and feel very different.

As an IT recruitment agency, Crimson is concerned that that the current skills shortage may be exacerbated by Brexit, as a substantial portion of the UK’s tech talent originates from the EU. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has estimated that 6% of digital technology workers are EU nationals, and that 20% of tech workers in London originate from the EU. Should a large portion of these people decide they don’t want to live and work in post-Brexit Britain, a very substantial void could be created in the IT jobs market place, particularly in the capital.