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Lockdown Stories with Sheila Fitzsimons, Head of Public Sector at Q5

Techbuyer, a global IT provider founded in Harrogate, has officially received its Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade at its HQ on Hornbeam Park. The event was attended on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth by the Lord-Lieutenant, Mrs Jo Ropner and the Chairman of North Yorkshire LEP, Mr David Kerfoot, as well as members from the Harrogate Borough Council.

KEEP AT IT. YOU CAN DO THIS. IT WON’T LAST FOREVER.

BUSINESS DATA AND APPLICATIONS BELONG IN THE CLOUD, NOT ON PREMISES.

Martyn Gould, Founder of rightcoverage, explains how you fight back after losing everything.

BUILDING GREAT SOFTWARE REQUIRES GREAT PEOPLE.

The current job market has never been so competitive. No matter the profession, industry or type of role, vacancies are being inundated with potential candidates. So standing out in a very busy space has never been so important. For jobseekers searching for the support of recruiters to help navigate through these murky waters, they must first help themselves by looking at their own CVs. This document should act as an insightful resource that maximises an individual’s opportunity to secure a new job.

In The Yorkshire Mafia’s last blog entry, we addressed candidates putting themselves at risk of missing out on employment opportunities by deviating away from the main purpose of a CV. Inundated with tips and advice, we wanted to showcase further thoughts on what has proven to be a topical and insightful issue.

2020 has been challenging. As businesses adapted to a global pandemic, so did our working practices. With continued remote working a long-term ambition for many, IT4Business explore some of the biggest challenges companies have faced, and ways we can simplify things in the future.

Bruce Daisley, Tech supremo and #1 Bestselling Author, introduces the Bad Boss Helpline...

What makes the YM so powerful is the strength of the relationships that the Group has nurtured over the last decade. We catch up with Jon Newall, Chairman of Lockyer Insurance, who joined the YM back in 2008 and has made some life-long friends.

Digital technologies have the potential to profoundly reshape the world of work. New technologies are making our ability to perform work more fluid and flexible. The workplace it seems is no longer associated with the office or factory floor. In this vision of the future, technology has a somewhat liberating effect, offering more autonomy for an increasingly knowledge rich and creative workforce.

As a naïve and shy 19 year old, Jacqueline Gold had no idea what path her career would take. Sitting in a smoke filled room at 21 in a council house in South East London drawing pictures of her boyfriends ‘meat and two veg’ on her head wasn’t quite what she had planned!

I recently posted something on social media that posed the question whether motivational speakers actually ‘walk the talk’? As this caused a fair amount of reaction, I thought it was a discussion worthy of some elaboration.

Symptoms of stress are most likely affecting your health, even though you might not realise it. You probably blame something else for that nagging headache, your reoccurring insomnia and/or your decreased productivity at work. But the reality is that stress is likely the culprit.

Halston Marketing talk us through their experience of Leeds Business Week

Let’s start off here with a statement I’m sure some people will agree with, but will make others guffaw: over-amped faux business titles get my blood up. Running through sites like LinkedIn, or online business profiles, or simply after I’m handed a business card, I see someone referring to themselves as a “guru”, or a “wizard”, or a “ninja”, and it makes me cringe.

Do people’s attitude to work make a difference? During my working life I observed so many people who put the minimum onto their work and expect be rewarded automatically just because they’ve put the years in...

With 62% of doctors using speech recognition (Health Informatics, 2018), it’s hard to believe that some people have never heard of it– but it’s true, they haven’t. So, we thought we’d break it down; what is speech recognition?

A royal wedding, spending cuts, striking unions – sound familiar?

So, you have a great website, everything works perfectly, the site looks professional and is suitable for your target audience. But what good is a great website if you haven’t got any traffic visiting your website? Generating traffic can be difficult to do and you need to ensure that you are able to generate repeated traffic. But how do you do this? Well, this blog will talk you through several different ways to drive traffic to your website.

On 9 October 2017, Carat sponsored the inaugural Women’s Networking event at Leeds Business Week. The event brought together over 200 women from across the Yorkshire region, enabling women to make connections and build new relationships away from their daily routine.

Wouter van Tol is Global Head of Corporate Responsibility for Huhtamaki, previously heading up CSR at Nestlé UK and Ireland, and Samsung.

Something we get asked about, (A LOT!) when talking to business is grants.

Building the LEGO brand ‘brick-by-brick’ is the philosophy and legacy of Sara Riis-Carstensen, the Director of Global Brand Development at what has become one of the most iconic brands in the world.

It was a busy day for exhibitors at Buy Yorkshire Conference and in between the jam-packed schedule we had chance to catch-up with a few of them to find out more about their businesses and to showcase the diverse range of companies that can benefit from the event.

With lots of new faces attending our drinks evenings and a new and exciting event strategy for 2019, we want to offer a few hints and tips for successful networking!

Branding can be an integral part of your communications and marketing strategies. Read Branswer's three reasons why branding is important to any business.

Voicepower walk us through speech recognition

Award-winning entrepreneur and Buy Yorkshire veteran, Jonathan Straight, will bring the bible bang up to date when he returns to the largest business to business Conference in the North to share an inspiring tip or two from one of the world’s oldest books.

Ride 25, an exhibitor at this years Buy Yorkshire event, explain how ‘The Heart of Yorkshire Sportive 2016’ hopes to attract more than 500 riders to bridge the gap from bike to business.