Open the taps please Boris!
Hi ,
Welcome to the February edition of the Prism newsletter.
We have had another busy month internally hiring two more members to the Prism team. A big welcome to Rowan and Stephanie who have joined us, further info below.
With the recent major news event we have seen the government make an announcement around VISAs for Ukrainians. This certainly seems to be a compassionate and sensible policy implementation, and perhaps even more can be done to help.
This made me think how very difficult it *still* is for Prism as a talent partner and also our customers who are hiring managers to employ candidates residing outside of the UK. Especially considering the current market is so very candidate scarce. The barriers to entering the UK since Brexit are too difficult and ambiguous. One can’t help feeling that we are not taking advantage of our newfound emigration decision making ‘freedom’ post Brexit. Surely we should ‘open the taps’ to the skilled areas we need to hire into? The technology labour force is one such area and one that has clear and tangible skills that we can classify that are in-demand. Come on UK Government! Let’s gain advantage over our European neighbours to be able to attract the best talent. We have the freedom to invite the best talent from across the *globe* to work in the UK, not just from across Europe as previously was the case. Let’s make it happen!
January and February are traditionally busy times of year for the travel and holiday booking industries. Bank holidays are unusual this year with the celebration of the Queen’s 70th anniversary/Jubilee. This year, the Spring Bank Holiday 2022 (originally on Monday May 30th) will be moved to Thursday the 2nd
of June and an additional bank holiday will be held on Friday the 3rd.
I couldn’t help but giggle but also feel very sorry for the person or people that were responsible for the Queen’s ‘Jubbly’ mistake! Did you see the story? Here it is if you didn’t, regarding the Chinese manufacturer that made 10,800 tea cups, mugs and plates to mark the Queen's Jubilee, only to discover a vital spelling mistake!
I hope you had a good February. A quick reminder that it’s shrove Tuesday tomorrow so don’t forget to get your pancake ingredients for tomorrow (plant based pancake mix is available FYI !).
As ever, feel free to reach out regarding anything talent acquisition or DevOps related, it would be great to hear from you. Book a call with me here
Thanks,
Alex (DevOps) Dover
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