recruitment

The first 88 days of Digital Pulse

88 days ago, Chinwag launched the Digital Pulse, a confidence index for the digital industry.

Why did we do it? What's happened so far?

Early days...

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28 May 2008 by Sam Michel

Digital Pulse - April 2008

Digital Pulse indices
Digital Pulse: 
125.5
Current Index: 
142.1
6 month Index: 
131.6
Employment Index: 
142.1
Move Jobs Index: 
116.1
Salary Index: 
95.6
Current Confidence Index: 
126.6
Future Confidence Index: 
123.9

The method for calculating the Digital Pulse has been adjusted to give a more accurate reflection of the industry's confidence, based on feedback from March's results. Using this new algorithm for both March and April's results, confidence dropped 2.5%, with most of the other indices showing small drops in confidence.

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23 May 2008 by Deirdre Molloy

Digital industries’ workforce withstand economic jitters

Ever wondered how people really feel about their careers and futures in the digital industries? Amid the buffeting winds of economic turbulence, are we blasé or nervous, excited or fearful? Now you can find out - and add your own sentiments to the big picture equation.

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20 May 2008 by Deirdre Molloy

Digital workforce upbeat as new media shrugs off economic insecurities

The UK’s digital media industries remain upbeat, with sustained confidence in employment opportunities and optimism about current market conditions, according to a new survey released today, 19th May 2008, by digital media community network Chinwag. (http://www.chinwag.com/digitalpulse/2008/03)

PRESS RELEASE

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19 May 2008 by Deirdre Molloy

Digital Pulse Analysis March 2008

Topic: 
marketing
recruitment
Publisher: 
Chinwag

Background

Digital Pulse is a confidence index for the digital industry. It is designed to find out how industry professionals are feeling, how they perceive the current business climate, salary conditions and their views on what it’ll be like in 6 months time.

Each month, Chinwag will poll its community, made up of practitioners working across the digital industries, to create a barometer of attitudes and confidence.

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14 May 2008 by chinwag

Digital Pulse - March 2008

Digital Pulse indices
Digital Pulse: 
122.1
Current Index: 
145.7
6 month Index: 
133.6
Employment Index: 
152.3
Move Jobs Index: 
77
Salary Index: 
102
Current Confidence Index: 
133.3
Future Confidence Index: 
105.3
field_topic: 
marketing
The results of the overall index indicate a positive outlook towards the current market position, with good confidence about the current market state and the wide availability of jobs within the market. Looking over the next six months however, this confidence slips 12.1 points (8.3%).

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4 May 2008 by Sam Michel

Finding & Attracting Talent - part 2

We've been so busy here interviewing that I forgot to post this weeks ago! Anyway, here goes part 2 of finding & attracting talent ...

Once you think you have the ideal CV, the most common next step is the interview.

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28 March 2008 by Nicky Swain

Chinwag Jobs Digital Skills Survey 2007 Report Download

Thanks for the information.

Please use this link to download the PDF version of the Chinwag Jobs Chinwag Jobs Digital Skills  Survey 2007 Report. It's approx. 2.5Mb.

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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23 January 2008 by Sam Michel

Guest Contributors Tackle Skills Emergency

Ah, the New Year. Dreary weather, snow (although not in Soho), lack of daylight and the tricksy return to work. It's no surprise that it's the hottest time of year for the recruitment business. Chinwag Jobs has seen over 100 new vacancies posted in the last 48 hours alone, and there's no sign of the pace slowing.

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4 January 2008 by Sam Michel

Chinwag Live: Skills Emergency

As the skills shortage worsens, what can we do to ensure the UK remains a global hub for digital media? Chinwag Live brings together intiatives and ideas in an open panel and community debate...

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Date: 29 January 2008
Location: The Slug & Lettuce (Downstairs), UK

Designers don’t think?

Chatting to a recruiter recently I was shocked to hear him say, ‘The problem is we’re interviewing a lot of designers at the moment who don’t think’. I was pretty dumbfounded, as I’ve spent my entire working life believing that is exactly what designers did. However, it did get me thinking more about the way designers in technology work, the way things have changed over the last ten or so years, and the problems that they face.

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17 December 2007 by Nikki Barton

Digital Skills Drought?

We've just put out a survey on Chinwag Jobs to guage what's happening in the recruitment sector. It'll be interesting to get feedback on the problems (or perhaps not) of recruiting and retaining digital people over the last year.

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29 November 2007 by Sam Michel