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How Changing Roles Can Benefit Your Tech Career

Unlike in previous generations, changing roles throughout your career has become the new normal, in fact research suggests that on average ...

Candidate Advice Hiring #TechLeaders | 2 min read

5 Top Tips for Success as a Tech Leader in 2021

There is no denying that 2020 was a challenging year for tech leaders. Faced with a global pandemic and a shift in working environment, ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 1 min read

4 Ways to Advance Your Tech Career in 2021

The pandemic has undoubtedly changed the tech industry indefinitely. Not only has investment in technical solutions and digital ...

Candidate Advice #TechQA | 2 min read

Develop Your Tech Career in 2021 – Advice from the Experts

For many the idea of a New Year relates to a fresh start; an opportunity to grow in your career both professionally and personally. Whether ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

How to Identify if a Company Culture is Right for You

Company culture emulates an organisations values and attributes. Having a strong company culture is a way to engage with employees and ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Essential Soft Skills for 2021

Whilst technical ability is important, the pandemic has proven that skills with a human element are vital in order to thrive in this ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Building Your Tech Career in 2021

One thing is certain; this pandemic has changed the tech industry. Businesses have undergone rapid digital transformation and expectations ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 1 min read

5 Ways a Side Hustle Can Benefit Your Tech Career

A ‘side hustle’ refers to any additional work you take on whilst employed in a full-time role. Side hustles can be related to the role you ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Setting Yourself Up for a Promotion Within Your Tech Team

One of the main benefits of working in the tech industry is the ability to progress in your career. Whether that’s from one specific area ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Maximise Your Technical CV With These Top Tips

A Curriculum Vitae (CV) is your first interview when applying for a new role. It is the first thing that recruiters and potential employers ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Steps to Gaining Confidence in Your Role

Having confidence in the workplace allows you to not only maintain motivation and productivity but enables you to comfortably interact with ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

Top Tips For Showcasing Your Non-Tech Skills

Soft skills are essential in the tech industry, as they enable you to innovate, support and collaborate with the other members of your tech ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 2 min read

How to Ensure Your Personal and Professional Values Align

The tech industry provides multiple opportunities for tech professionals to work in different industries, roles, and companies. Whilst ...

Candidate Advice Meetup Women in Tech #Networking | 2 min read

Why Tech Professionals Should Engage With The Community

Communities are a great way for people to collaborate, innovate, support each other, and grow in their career. As part of our Q&A series, ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 1 min read

Maintaining Motivation During Your Job Search

Maintaining motivation when searching and applying for jobs is difficult. Add on top of that the current pandemic situation, with more ...

Candidate Advice Hiring | 3 min read

Top Tips For Your Job Interview During This Pandemic

Whilst the pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty around job roles in particular industries, with people being made furloughed or even ...

Candidate Advice Hiring #Networking | 2 min read

How Networking Can Advance Your Career

Networking is essential to career progression and staying on top of trends within your industry. It allows you to meet like-minded ...

Candidate Advice Women in Tech Hiring | 3 min read

Are Your Job Adverts Gender Neutral?

Job advertisements are used to attract the top tech talent to fill your role, however, to avoid engaging just one specific gender and ...

Candidate Advice Women in Tech Hiring | 2 min read

Gender Diverse Hiring Should Be a Priority in Your Tech Team

It’s no secret that women are highly underrepresented in the technology industry. Whilst there has been an increase in the position of ...

Candidate Advice | 4 min read

How to Avoid Burnout In Tech Teams

Burnout has never been more prominent in a working environment than during the current pandemic. Burnout is caused by increased and ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

How to Communicate Effectively With Your Remote Team

The world of work has changed. As a result of the current pandemic, many employees are now working from home, with little expectation that ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Relax After Remote Working All-Day

With lockdown measures easing, for many employees their work environment may not be the same as pre-pandemic. Many organisations like ...

Candidate Advice Women in Tech | 3 min read

Steps You Can Take To Increase Diversity in Tech

It is clear that more needs to be done around diversity and inclusion in business. Especially in the tech industry, where only 11% of ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

Tips to Increase Your Earning Potential in Salesforce

In 2019 the IDM reported that Salesforce and those in the ecosystem are projected to create 4.2 million new roles and $1.2 trillion in ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Non-Tech Skills For Tech Professionals

People considering a career in tech, tend to think that the skills most required by recruiters and employers are the technical ‘hard ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Important Skills to Remember When Expanding Your Tech Team

When building your tech team, it's likely you already have a very good understanding of the technical skills that are needed in order to ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Tips For Changing Jobs Remotely

Traditionally in the world of work an individual would finish school, get a job and stay with that company until retirement, potentially ...

Candidate Advice | 1 min read

Women In Tech Republic: The Podcast

Following on from the success of our #WomenInTechQA series, we’ve created the Women in Tech Republic Podcast! This platform will ...

Candidate Advice Mentorship | 3 min read

Can Mentorship Bridge the Gender Gap in Tech?

Many companies in various industries are now offering a mentorship program to their employees, as the benefits not just for the mentee, but ...

Candidate Advice LGBT+ | 1 min read

LGBTQWERTY: Starting the Conversation

As an ‘agency of the future’, diversity within tech hiring has been a topic of increasing interest to us at Third Republic- in fact, you ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

#SalesforceQA – Ali Najefi, Salesforce CTA

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Salesforce Certified Technical Architect and COP Lead at E.ON Ali Najefi. Ali reveals ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Working From Home: The Debate

With COVID-19 changing the way many of us work, multiple studies have attempted to determine whether the negatives of working from home, ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

How to Increase Your Job Security

The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world of work upside down - but the good news is there are steps you can take to prove your worth, ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

#SalesforceQA – Bhavana Singh, Founder at Three Moons Consulting

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Bhavana Singh, Founder of Salesforce Consultancy - Three Moons Consulting, Salesforce ...

Candidate Advice | 6 min read

Datagility: Powering Data-Driven Success for Tomorrow's Organisations

Dave Knifton currently works as a lead global data architect for a major blue-chip multinational. He has a passion for data architecture ...

Candidate Advice | 1 min read

Flexibility and Remote Working Attract Talent to Employers

According to research from Randstad, non-monetary benefits such as flexible hours, working from home and better job security are some of ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Tips For Keeping Furloughed Employees Engaged

In recent months the once relatively unknown term, furlough, has become a reality for millions across the globe. This presents new ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Tips For a Career Move During the Pandemic

The shock of the coronavirus pandemic has made planning ahead difficult, particularly when it comes to major decisions like a career move. ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Best Practices for Video Meetings

With so many of us working remotely, video meetings are fast becoming the norm. But since this is quite new to many of us, getting the ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Tips for Starting a New Remote Role

Despite the current circumstances, businesses are still hiring and people are still starting new roles, albeit on a remote/virtual basis. ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Top Tips for Networking Remotely

When working remotely, let's face it, your day-to-day routine isn’t exactly loaded with opportunities for meeting new people. And no matter ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 5 min read

#SalesforceQA: Tameem Bahri, Salesforce CTA and CTO at Capgemini

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, Tameem Bahri. Tameem is the CTO of the ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Maintaining Motivation While Working Remotely

If you're new to working remotely or you just can’t seem to get into your usual work groove, here are some surefire ways to boost your ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Upskilling Your Developers Remotely

Remote working was adopted early by the tech industry, and is becoming increasingly popular across all sectors. Hiring remote workers means ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 8 min read

#SalesforceQA: Eric Dreshfield, VP of Delivery at ITequality

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Eric Dreshfield, Founder at Midwest Dreamin', VP of Delivery at ITequality and after 7 ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 6 min read

#SalesforceQA: Meighan Brodkey, Practice Manager of Architecture at Xede Consulting

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Salesforce MVP, Meighan Brodkey. Meighan is a Technical Architect and Practice Manager ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 6 min read

#SalesforceQA: Ian Moyse, EMEA Sales Director @ Natterbox

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with Ian Moyse, EMEA Sales Director at Natterbox. Ian talks to us about the benefits and ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 8 min read

#SalesforceQA: Melissa Shepard, President & CEO @ LizzardTech Consulting

In our most recent #SalesforceQA, we caught up with 23x certified Salesforce professional and President & CEO at LizzardTech Consulting, ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Supercharge Your Salesforce Career in 2020

It’s a new year and what better time to start thinking about how to supercharge your career in 2020? Great news, Salesforce is committed to ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 6 min read

#SalesforceQA: Richard Clarke, National Salesforce Practice Director @ PS+C Artisan

In our most recent Salesforce Q&A, we caught up with Richard Clarke, National Salesforce Practice Director at PS+C Artisan. Richard talks ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 5 min read

#SalesforceQA: John Daniel, Director - Platform Architecture @ Rootstock Software

In our most recent Salesforce Q&A interview, we caught up with Director, Platform Architecture at Rootstock Software, John Daniel. John ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Habits for success as a Salesforce Technical Architect

A CTA is someone who demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to design and build high-performance technical solutions on the ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Are You Making These Salesforce Career Mistakes?

After being named the UK’s best place to work earlier this year, it is understandable that Salesforce roles are in high demand. The ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Top Tips for Making the Most of Your Commute

Let’s face it: commutes definitely aren't the best part of most people's day. They can be stressful and particularly long commutes can ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Soft Skills of Successful Engineering Managers

It’s no surprise that DevOps professionals continue to be in high demand in our increasingly digital world. Companies need cohesive and ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

5 Tips for Managing Remote Teams

The number of people and teams working remotely continues to grow each year. It’s becoming more and more common for businesses to offer ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Benefits and Challenges of Working for a Startup

According to the Federation of Small Businesses, at the start of 2018 small firms accounted for 99.3% of all private sector businesses. ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 7 min read

#SalesforceQA: Jeff Steinke, Co-Founder @ ThirdEye Consulting

In our most recent Salesforce Q&A interview, we caught up with Co-Founder of top-teir Salesforce Consultancy, ThirdEye and one of the ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 2 min read

5 DevOps Podcasts For Learning On The Go

DevOps has been on the rise for some time now. While some companies and individuals have yet to discover the endless opportunities DevOps ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Top Tips for Smashing your new Remote Working Role

It’s becoming more and more common for businesses to offer their employees remote working opportunities, especially in the world of tech. ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 1 min read

DevOps: Why is it Important and How Does it Help?

As you're probably already well aware, DevOps skillsets continue to be in high demand. Plain and simple, there are more job openings than ...

Candidate Advice | 2 min read

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Why you Shouldn't Panic if your First Job isn't your Dream Job

In my role as a Talent Acquisition Consultant, I speak to a lot of recent graduates, upcoming graduates and those affectionately known as ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 5 min read

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#SalesforceQA: Amnon Kruvi, Salesforce MVP and Director @ Kruvi Solutions

In our most recent Salesforce Q&A interview, we caught up with 14x certified Salesforce veteran, Amnon Kruvi. He's a Salesforce MVP and ...

Candidate Advice | 1 min read

9 Steps to Smash your Interview

Let's face it nobody particularly enjoys an interview. The prospect of having to convince someone else that you are right for a job – even ...

Candidate Advice | 1 min read

Is Equality a Priority for Tech Firms?

A study carried out by Booking.com, found that almost half of women that work in a technology centred business feel that diversity isn’t a ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce SF Republic | 1 min read

Salesforce Certifications: What You Need to Know About Obtaining Them

As we all know, Salesforce is one of the fastest-growing software companies. It's the largest private employer in San Francisco with about ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 1 min read

DevOps: Methodology or Title

We have seen so many companies and individuals coin the phrase DevOps, but do businesses truly know what this is? The term DevOps has been ...

Candidate Advice | 1 min read

Recruitment Relationships: Building a Solid Foundation

Working with a Recruiter can work out one of two ways, it can be a seamless experience where you’re provided a genuine professional who ...

Technology Candidate Advice | 3 min read

5 Positives of Learning to Code

As we progress further into the Fourth Industrial Revolution and technology becomes more and more embedded into everything that we do, the ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 8 min read

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#SalesforceQA: Barbara Christensen, Salesforce MVP and Lead Consultant @ Percolator Consulting

In our most recent Salesforce Q&A interview, we caught up with Barbara Christensen, Salesforce MVP and Lead Consultant at Percolator ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 2 min read

Key Soft Skills of Successful DevOps Engineers

It’s no surprise that DevOps professionals continue to be in high demand in our increasingly digital world. According to the DevOps ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice Salesforce | 6 min read

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#SalesforceQA: David Atkins, Salesforce Project Manager @ Farfetch

In Third Republic’s Salesforce Q&A Series, we speak to industry leaders about what changes they have seen in the Salesforce universe, where ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Top Tips for Career Progression at a Startup

The world of startups is booming, from banking to healthcare, startup firms are everywhere! This is fantastic news for technical talent, as ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce SF Republic | 3 min read

Steps You Can Take to Become a Salesforce Developer

You might be quite new to the world of Salesforce, or a veteran who has been working in the ecosystem for years, either way, at some point ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

IR35 tax legislation changes for Contractors: April 2020

What is IR35? IR35, also known as "intermediaries legislation" is a tax law issued by HMRC. It is designed to stop independent contractors ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

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Benefits of becoming a Salesforce Technical Architect

As you’ll probably already be aware, Salesforce is the world’s largest CRM platform and is evolving at a substantial rate. So, it’s no ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 2 min read

Benefits of Attending Salesforce Meetups

Whether you’re at the beginning of your Salesforce career journey or you’re an experienced user, you’ll likely be well aware that the ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 2 min read

Salesforce Developer Interview Questions and Answers

How you answer questions in an interview provides your potential future employer an insight into your level of experience, passion and ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

5 Ways the Salesforce Community can Lead you to Success

The Salesforce Trailblazer Community is made up of students, innovators, experts and game-changers who use their Salesforce skills to ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 2 min read

How to Boost your Career as a Salesforce Admin

We have good news for all you Salesforce Admins, the skills of Salesforce Administrators are in high demand with a range of employers. This ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

Key Reasons to Align Yourself with your Company’s Mission

Mission statements are used by companies across the world, they are used to explain the overall purpose for their existence. A mission ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

Key Traits That Make a Great Salesforce Architect

So, you’ve decided that the career of a Salesforce Architect is for you - you love the idea of working directly with customers who want to ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

10 Things Salesforce Admins Should Know About Pardot

In 2013, Pardot joined the Salesforce family as the, then, biggest acquisition in the software giant’s history (overtaken in 2016 by ...

Recruitment Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

How to Become a Freelance Salesforce Consultant

For many, the move into freelancing opens them up to a wide range of opportunities that permanent roles can’t offer. It is often borne out ...

Job Hunting DevOps Candidate Advice | 4 min read

10 Most Popular DevOps Interview Questions and Answers

If you have worked hard to polish your DevOps skills, and scored yourself an interview for your dream job, then ensuring you are adequately ...

#SalesforceQA Candidate Advice | 7 min read

#SalesforceQA: Brendan Conroy, Salesforce MVP and Senior Consultant @ MondayCall

In Third Republic’s Salesforce Q&A Series, we speak to industry leaders about what changes they have seen in the Salesforce universe, where ...

Recruitment Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

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Tips to Becoming A Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Referring to Certified Technical Architect's as the ‘Salesforce Elite’, earlier this year Salesforce published an article detailing exactly ...

DevOps Candidate Advice | 5 min read

How to Prove You’re a Great Developer

As Robert L. Glass put it - "the best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers". Whilst you might roll your eyes at ...

Recruitment Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

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Businesses Need Salesforce – How Do You Show Them That They Need You Too?

Technology is rapidly changing, and the skills you need for success in this technology-driven world are also shifting at an alarming rate - ...

Recruitment Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

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10 Salesforce Experts you Need to Follow

In today’s digital world, social platforms are no longer made for mindless chatter. Indeed, places like Twitter and Linked are rapidly ...

Recruitment Candidate Advice Salesforce | 4 min read

To Certify or Not to Certify? That Is the Question

Since Salesforce’s conception, the platform has evolved from a simple automation package to a solution that now expands across sales, ...

Job Hunting Candidate Advice LinkedIn | 4 min read

How to Make Your CV Stand Out as a Contractor

As a contractor, your CV has always been your most important tool. But, in today’s rapid market, now more than ever, having a stellar CV ...

Job Hunting Candidate Advice LinkedIn | 3 min read

4 Trends Shaping the Future of Talent Acquisition

In today’s digital world, every business, in every sector, is undergoing a transformation. As new technologies and digital capabilities ...

Job Hunting Candidate Advice LinkedIn | 4 min read

7 Steps to make your LinkedIn profile stand out in 2019

LinkedIn has been around for 16 years, and over this time the LinkedIn profile has become even more important than a CV. Indeed, nearly ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

How to Market Yourself - Advice from Top Chief Architects & Heads of Architecture

A topic which we talk about regularly as recruitment consultants is an applicant’s CV – is it written correctly?, is the layout okay? and ...

Candidate Advice | 3 min read

So, You Had a Counter Offer…Now What? 5 Things You Should Always Consider…

It’s potentially the most awkward moment in your career; handing in your notice to your employer. You call a meeting with them and inform ...

Candidate Advice | 5 min read

6 Things You Must Know Before an Interview: What To Read and Where To Look

No matter if you’re an interview veteran or new to job hunting, if you have an interview coming up for a job you really want, then you’ll ...

Candidate Advice Salesforce | 3 min read

How Salesforce’s Trailhead Can Benefit Your Career

If you’ve been in the Salesforce ecosystem for a while – and even if you’re relatively new to the industry – then you’ve most likely heard ...

Technology Candidate Advice Digital Transformation | 5 min read

In Today’s Digital World, What Makes a Top Enterprise Architect?

In today’s increasingly digital world, there is barely any aspect of a business that has not been changed or augmented by technology. With ...

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