When the job market’s tough, it may seem like you can’t be too selective about which companies you’re going to apply to, but it’s still vitally important. That’s why it’s essential to  build up as good a picture as possible of how a business works, what its…

For some time now psychometric testing has been splitting opinions with some regarding it as a valuable assessment resource and others labelling them as a pseudoscientific waste of time.  Nevertheless, it’s estimated that 70% of large companies use them as part of their recruitment procedure.

They do say that you only get one chance to make a good impression – it may be trite but it’s true. And whether you’re going for an interview or trying to clinch a big sale it’s this first impact that you make that can lead to success or failure.

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The age of working for a lifetime in the same job until you’re pensioned off with a gold clock is well and truly over.

This shift is a fairly recent phenomenon, but it’s certainly here to stay with an employment climate that relies on greater personnel manoeuvrability and agility…

Although it’s generally not an issue in the world of IT, except for companies that have an official “dress down Friday” policy, there is a school of thought that the more casual the attire, the more creative the thought processes it will provoke. That’s why we all have the…

The interview process is your first introduction to your perspective company. By developing a connection with the interviewee; you can stand out among the rest of the candidates. Remember, most job interviewers want you to succeed, you will be making their day a lot easier if you turn out to be the…

LinkedIn's annual recruitment survey show us, as recruiters what trends and changes to keep a look out for in 2016. Their data helps us to investigate potential issues such as the top priorities of global staffing trends and hiring challenges. Here at Lucas Blake, we have done the hard work for…

2016 will certainly be a year of growth and discovery for cloud-based security technologies. A changing of the technological guard brings with it multiple questions and predictions. We will attempt to explore the possible predictions and changes that we believe may affect the cloud-based security…

As recruiters, it is down to us to get the best out of our candidates. The blame for multiple interview failures should fall at our feet. One of the reasons candidates fail at this stage is that candidates and recruiters don’t understand what it is an employer is looking for. Each job opening…

In the modern world of online purchasing, communication and planning we produce tons of data by the second. Daily we upload 55 million pictures, 340 million tweets, and 1billion documents. That is a total of 2.5 quintillion bytes a day; this is big data. To process all of this data we need cloud-based…