​National Stress Awareness Day occurs on the first Wednesday of every November. It was first created in 1998 and the aim is for it to be a full day of reinforcing and increasing public awareness and help people recognise, manage and reduce stress in their personal and professional lives. It is the centrepiece of Stress Awareness Week, which runs from 1st to the 5th November.Throu...

​Monday 13th September marks the start of #NationalCodingWeek. We take a look at why events like these are essential for creating a sustainable, diverse digital workforce and our team share their thoughts on the importance of promoting the options of digital careers at a young age. National Coding Week is an annual event that aims to help both children and adults with learning digital...

Executive Director at The Bridge James Milner was invited to speak to ActionCOACH's Chris Fordy about the positives that have come out of a challenging 12 months for the recruitment industry.​How has the pandemic affected you personally and professionally? "It was a mixed year for me. My wife and I had our second daughter during the lockdown, right at the very start. It was a real tri...

​It’s hard to overstate the role artificial intelligence (AI) is playing in the pharmaceutical industry. The revolution has arrived rapidly and both pharmaceutical and biotech companies are increasing the adoption of such technologies, including machine learning, to improve the accuracy and speed of their data-driven decisions.AI technology can process and find patterns within vast am...

​Many people were surprised when in early November 2020, just 8 months after the world was largely bought to a standstill by the COVID19 pandemic, leading pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they had developed a vaccine that they claimed was ‘90% effective’. The surprise wasn’t borne of the fact that we had a vaccine at all – after all, vaccines have been respo...

“I think to actually grow and improve you have to step outside of your comfort zone. I’m a real believer that in sales and recruitment and growing businesses, you have to step out of it to move forwards. I also believe that in order to get your teams to do that you have to lead by example. You have do it yourself and put yourself out there.” For an episode of her podcast ‘The Authenti...

As the landscape of the working world is forced to shift in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, more businesses are looking towards IT solutions that help them streamline their operations and allow more flexibility and accessibility for their employees. One solution a lot of businesses are looking into is cloud migration. So why are businesses looking to it, and is it a great time f...

The National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) dealt with 723 incidents in 2020 up to the month of August, according to statistics revealed by the authority. The government body reports that it has helped 1,200 in the first 9 months of 2020, with this figure being the highest to be reported since the organisation was founded in 2016. It believes more than a quarter of these incidents are r...

On 25th May 2018, data law changed forever.In its first 18 months across 22 countries, an estimated 30 million companies fell into the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the enforcement of new rules for businesses regarding data capture, storage and usage. Despite this, there have only been 785 fines for non-compliance, many of which are being appealed. The questi...