Following on from other articles published by Jenrick IT, specialists in SC and DV IT job opportunities, found this interesting article regarding a campaign that GCHQ have created to test I.T. skills and attract the very best I.T. talent.

The code which GCHQ, the intelligence agency, posted online to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy spies has been solved within hours of going online.

The agency told The Daily Telegraph that “a number of people” had solved the seemingly baffling grid of numbers and letters by noon on Thursday.

The feat was performed by the select few well within the deadline of midnight on the night of Sunday 11 December.

GCHQ declined to say how many people had cracked it or how quickly it had been done but it is understood that every individual who solves the problem will be offered a fast-track path to a job.

To be eligible for a job with the secret agency, however, the code-cracker must be a British citizen.

GCHQ introduced the puzzle - which contains no reference to the agency - to try to find people with the right skills for espionage in the computer age.

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Jenrick IT has reported a continued increase in demand for top talent during Q2, with many clients looking to attract top quality IT staff to their organisation for both internal and client focussed initiatives.

Philip Fanthom (Managing Director at Jenrick IT) commented:

“Q1 and Q2 of 2011 has been very very active, with clients in all our vertical markets engaging our services. We have seen unprecedented growth in both our contract/associate business and permanent recruitment business. The heartening side is that clients are choosing Jenrick because of our ability to deliver recruitment project results.

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According to a recent article in The Daily Telegraph, three in four employers now struggle to find people with the right skills to fill their vacancies, despite high unemployment.

Here are the jobs there are that have proved particularly difficult, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Hays.

Much-needed specialist and technical skills have become harder to find over the past year, with sought-after staff staying put in their current roles for job security, the annual survey of 626 employers by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Hays recruitment firm showed.

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In contrary to the report of IT contract demand ‘dwindling’, Jenrick has noticed a sharp increase in demand from the Finance sector, with Q1 contract bookings from the finance sector being at their highest for over 18 months. Other areas of significant growth included; online marketing & transactional business, general media, IT security, and more surprisingly the defence sector.

Our clients have been motivated to engage IT contract expertise to re-boot projects that have been in ‘doldrums’. With all the signs that the UK is in the throes of recovery, clients find they have a need to regain their competitive edge and ’steal a march’ on other players in their sector. On of the key drivers of business development is innovation, and a key driver of innovation is IT. (more…)

IT trade body Intellect has met with leading members of the coalition government and put the case for putting technology at the heart of the nations growth strategy.

Business Secretary Vince Cable and Communications Minister Ed Vaizey met with members of Intellect and other figures in the IT industry at a roundtable event which put forward the case for technology being used to drive the economy out of recession.

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Thank you to Jane Stevens, UK Service Delivery Manager  at Jenrick IT for writing this article in response to the initial article on EBT Schemes last month.

There have been many schemes set up over the years including EBT (Employment Benefit Trusts) Schemes in order to take advantage of loopholes in the law where trusts or other vehicles are used to reward employees (contractors) which seek to avoid or defer the payment of income tax or National Insurance Contributions.

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It’s great news for the IT job market, according to Contractor UK.

The recession in the business services sector is over, most visibly in the IT marketplace which will create 93,000 additional jobs by 2015, research by a financial consultancy reveals.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research says “steady growth” in business services as a whole, which includes IT, is incoming for the next five years, with annual growth of 2.7%. (more…)

We are delighted to welcome aboard some new members of staff across the Jenrick Group.

Firstly we have Jurgen Nijim, joining Jenrick Engineering’s Burton Branch as a Technical Consultant. He is really pleased to have joined the company and commented:

…”there’s plenty of opportunity to grow with the company as we expand, and the training provided is excellent.”

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The British taxman has enlisted its two main IT contractors to assess the viability of offshoring, in a move that could pave the way for tax forms to be processed overseas.

HM Revenue & Customs approached Capgemini and Fujitsu six months ago about its Quantum project – an internal initiative to yield savings, mainly in IT, of £205million. (more…)

Britain’s leading technology companies have set aside their rivalries to form a coalition willing the creation of 250,000 IT jobs within the next decade.

They said the employment booster to the nation’s “IP-rich” IT sector was vital for the economy, given the decline of manufacturing and the “shock” to financial services. (more…)