Jenrick IT are reporting a continued demand for specialists within the financial trading arena. Philip Fanthom (Managing Director) commented:

“…despite all the current negative press, our experience is one of high demand and continuing challenge to supply. Our clients are looking for IT experts with financial trading experience, current demand includes; Java Developers, Testers (Functional and Technical), Solutions Architects, Business Analysts, PMO leads, Linux System Administrators/Engineers and Oracle (DBAs, Engineers)”.

In addition to this consistent demand for IT Consultants from Jenrick IT, the BBC have reported that it is the Computer experts who are running the world’s financial trading , as in the article below:

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It’s always hard to decide how to market your product or service to potential customers. However, here is an interesting article that Jenrick IT recently found regarding 10 new technologies that can help market your business.

1. Facial Recognition

Giving away free product is a great way to build your brand, right?

Unilever, the company that makes things like Lipton soup and Suave shampoo also makes ice cream and figured it would use some of it to get customers to smile-literally. It worked with the high-tech marketing company SapientNitro in London to make a vending machine called “Share Happy” that uses facial recognition to give people ice cream bars for smiling.

They even designed the box so people can upload their smiling mugs to Facebook, pushing the brand even farther out into the consumer space. When the machine debuted in Lisbon last year, it vended 52,000 ice cream bars in two days with no media support or advertising. That’s about 600 percent more than a regular ice cream machine.

The award-winning box is now on world tour doling out brand recognition as it goes.

“Facial Recognition is being used not only on experiential campaigns but even on digital signage,” says Rob Gonda, global head of emerging technology and innovation for SapientNitro. “For instance, a lot of our installations…detect things like gender, age bracket and start serving more targeted advertising on digital signage and digital displays.”

What’s different today compared to a few years ago, Gonda says, is brands have to be situationally aware and contextually relevant.

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For all those gaming lovers out there, Jenrick IT recently came across this article about the mobile gaming sensation ‘Angry Birds’, which is set to move from cellphone screens to the Formula One racetrack in Singapore, with the launch of a crowd game that can be played by live audiences.

Here is the article…

Angry Birds will migrate from cellphone screens to the Formula One racetrack this weekend in Singapore, as the firm behind the mobile gaming sensation rolls out a crowd game to be played by live audiences.

Gaming firm Rovio has teamed up with Singapore Telecommunications for the Singapore launch, having created the crowd game with Finnish startup Uplause Ltd, the creators of the world’s first live event gaming platform.

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I (Philip Fanthom, Managing Director at Jenrick IT) was lucky enough to attend a briefing on Cyber security whilst at the DSEi last week, which I found very informative. During the briefing,  we were given an overview of the key areas of threat via cyber attack to both national infrastructure and to private enterprise.

The three main threat areas are:

• Service Distortion - the deliberate act to stop an online service being delivered

• Information infiltration/theft - the act of distorting or accessing information for gain

• Unknown access - where active agents have access to a system/infrastructure without any detection

The Chatham House report (Released September 2011) gives a complete overview of; Perception of Threats, Managing cyber dependencies, Information communications, and Building a cyber secure culture.

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The Jenrick Group recently held a Charity ‘Car Wash Day’ to help raise money for Maple Ridge Primary School based in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Maple Ridge Primary School have counted the last donation box from the car wash which came to a grand total of £134.67! Thank you all who contributed.

This money will go towards equipment for the new sensory area (enclosed safe garden) for the children.

Maple Ridge is a school that works with Children with special communication needs, specifically Autism. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people and the world around them. It is a spectrum condition, which means that, while all people with autism share certain areas of difficulty, their condition will affect them in different ways.

To learn more about Maple Ridge Primary School please visit their website by clicking on the link below.

Thank you to everyone at Jenrick who took part in the car wash day, you have helped to make a huge difference!

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• Visit the Maple Ridge Primary School Website
• Charity and Wellbeing News at The Jenrick Group

A recent artcile reveals the hottest new technologies of 2011 and which came top at the Consumer Electronics Show.

As predicted, tablet mania ensued at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. At least 75 were introduced at the annual Las Vegas gadget extravaganza. The tablet with the most buzz was Motorola Mobility’s XOOM. It’s the first tablet to run on Google’s ( GOOG - news - people ) highly anticipated Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.

XOOM, which is expected to launch in the first quarter, supports Flash for easy and fast video viewing and includes 3G wireless access that can be upgraded to 4G LTE. Motorola’s tablet also has a 10.1-inch screen, front- and rear-facing cameras, a camcorder and Nvidia ( NVDA - news - people ) Tegra dual-core processor.

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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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Jenrick IT has just exhibited at the SC Expo 2011, held in Bristol, for the very first time.

The event was very well run, with the layout of the venue being ideal for Security Cleared Professionals to make their way round talking to each company and being able to freely approach each stand.

Due to the inclusion of a specific mini-brochure for the SC Expo within the pre-event handout, the attendees understood exactly the security and defence recruitment solutions that Jenrick IT provided coupled with the extensive experience of the consultant team within this sector.

Such a substantial number of people targeted our stand and were queuing to speak with our consultants to find out more about our SC and DV services, as well as using the opportunity to discuss their current employment situation.
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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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