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2022 was an eventful year for Futureheads and SyncD. From a period of rapid growth to winning an APSCo award as well as supporting our clients in winning awards through our partnered recruitment services, there is no shortage of things to...

As the world becomes increasingly digitised, it's crucial that we ensure that women are fully represented and empowered in the digital...

Women face unique challenges in the workplace, from gender bias and discrimination to imposter syndrome and work-life balance issues. However, with the right strategies and support, women can thrive and succeed in their careers. Here are...

We spoke to some of the women in our teams about the challenges women face not just in the workplace but with themselves, exploring topics from building self-confidence to battling imposter syndrome, here are our quick tips to help you be...

This marks part 2 of my Women In Tech series, where I am tackling the topic from all sides. Last time, we talked about the most shocking statistics regarding women in tech, this time I wanted to share with you some of the career pathways...

Historically, the tech industry has been male-dominated, but there are now many successful women in tech who are changing the industry for the...

Are you looking to attract diverse talent? You’ve come to the right place. In today’s globalized world, having a diverse workforce is essential for companies seeking success. A variety of backgrounds and experiences can open up...

Neurodiversity refers to the natural variation in how human brains work, including differences in learning, attention, and social interaction. Celebrating neurodiversity in the workplace can lead to a more inclusive and productive work...

When it comes to job advertising, alongside culture and benefits, one of the factors that candidates consider is the salary on offer. Displaying a salary with job advertising can have many benefits for both the employer and the job...

Neurodiversity refers to the concept that neurological differences are a normal part of human diversity, and includes conditions such as dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Neurodiverse...

So, the UK government recently announced a new returnership program that aims to get people over 50 back into the workplace. This program is part of a new initiative that seeks to provide employment opportunities for those who may have...

With the current economic instability and a surge in job cuts, many businesses are requesting that their employees return to physical office spaces. Is this indicative of a long-term shift towards in-person work – or is this...

We're using our business as a force for...

Ultimately, a career in UX requires a combination of creativity, analytical thinking, and a strong desire to improve the experiences of others. To determine if UX is the right career choice for you, you'll need to reflect on your interests...

#CelebrateBlack was a Black History Month event hosted on 28th October at Four Communications’ Head Office. The event was hosted by Black Create Connect and the Black Recruiters Network. The event provided a safe space to discuss black...

Ebonie Mather sits down with Emma Parnell to talk about her career journey and the importance of building...

You don’t have to look very far for evidence that Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are now front of mind issues in the modern UK...

We regularly get asked to clarify what different job titles in the UX industry mean, and how these job titles translate for specific...

When you are starting out it can be hard to navigate the office landscape, so here are a few tips that have served me well over the...

When it comes to the UK tech sector, many still believe that there are no gendered issues to discuss. This is wrong. Today I’m talking about statistics that may well shock...

This year at Futureheads and SyncD we held our annual company trip in the cosy holiday village of Darwin...

Futureheads and SyncD are proud to partner with Beder, a charity taking a unique approach to softly raising awareness around mental health and suicide prevention. Please support our efforts in raising funds and awareness for Beder by...

You may have recently read our article on improving your UX portfolio and landed yourself an interview. Good news! We’ve got you covered for that as well. As a Design Recruitment Consultant, I talk with hiring managers every...

After a great session celebrating the change that black leaders have made – it is also important to create a safe space to ask and answer some questions that some may find difficult to ask. Alicia Richardson, DEI and Talent Partner at...

As a black woman joining a new organisation that doesn’t have many other black employees it can be a little nerve-racking. Although I am confident, and I have joined SyncD as a Lead, I did have a few questions surrounding my...

The working world has seen a shift since the pandemic, with lockdown making people re-evaluate what’s important to...

Futureheads' Luke Starling sat down with Sam Wilkinson, Operations Director of Neverbland, to explore what it takes to succeed in Product and Project...

We recently sponsored a Tech Startups evening meet and greet with London Tech Network (LTN), which in total has over 2,000 members from across the tech industry in...

Almost 900,000 women in the UK have quit their jobs due to the menopause. We want to help make a difference and have signing up to the Menopause Workplace Pledge to commit to making our organisation a supportive and understanding place for...

National Stress Awareness Day falls on the first Wednesday of November. It’s a 24-hour period to reflect on how stress can hijack your day, and how you can regain...

“Not the right team” is the reason listed for the failure of 14% of startups, according to this report from CB Insights. Recruiters can help ensure that this isn’t an...

I sat down with Rafaela de Souza da Silva, a Senior User Researcher who has worked for numerous disruptive companies in the tech space like Spotify and Monzo, to talk about her UX...

This is the introduction of my upcoming series where I deep dive into the gendered issues of the UK’s tech sector. I’ll cover statistics that will shock you, how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve yet to...

How long till your next decision that impacts another human? How high-quality will that decision be? Convergent’s founder Heeral Gudka looks at why bias training shouldn’t be about changing the way people...

In a society that is generally far more accepting than it has ever been of an individual’s right to define their own sexuality, it seems astonishing that there are still communities in apparently developed and modern-thinking...

I conducted a poll on LinkedIn to find out if the contractors on my network preferred to work full time or part time, the results were different to what I...

The winners of the 2022 APSCo UK Awards for Excellence were announced on the 20th September during an invitation-only lunch at the NatWest Conference Centre in...

The real test for suitability comes in meeting the designer behind the work, and in our experience, a lack of preparation and awareness for what the interview will entail are key reasons designers...

Stories about digital pictures selling for millions have been everywhere over the last year, but these pictures aren’t the extent of NFT...

Recently, the business press reported on research that suggests almost half of all UK FTSE-100 firms are failing to deliver on their inclusion promises, despite almost all of them having formal processes and policies in place to meet...

Futureheads’ Engineering Consultant Ramze Bouhalla shares what he learned at London Tech Network‘s August Tech Startups...

If you work in tech, you’ll probably have heard of product design. But we’ve found that a lot of people have different opinions on what a digital product designer does. So, we wanted to outline what we mean when we talk about...

Bias. It is everywhere, and the hiring process is no different. Everyone can fall victim to their own unconscious bias. The good news is, there are ways to beat it, but the process begins with addressing and understanding...

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for Recruitment Company of the Year APSCo Awards for Excellence...

Getting started in Product Management is notoriously difficult, but there are more ways to do it now than ever...

What makes up a good UX portfolio? With more tools at your disposal now than ever before, we’ve decided to share the Futureheads...

Futureheads is proud to partner with Beder, a Mental Health and Suicide Prevention...

There are multiple development methodologies you can use when managing a digital project - which might be creating a new piece of software or making substantial changes to existing information...

At Futureheads, we’re frequently asked the question by Head of, and Director of UX level candidates:  ‘Given that I’m not really hands-on anymore, would I benefit from a portfolio to show my...

One year on from the government’s reform of IR35 – the UK’s off-payroll working rules – and a picture is emerging of businesses seeking more information about the effects of IR35 on...

The agency (Futureheads Recruitment) is looking to expand into the region after seeing strong growth in a number of key UK...

Whether you’re part of a newly established tech start-up or a larger, long-standing firm, the new digital age is transforming company operations no matter what...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection and community. In 2022, Ramadan began on 2nd April and ended on 1st May. Many working Muslims will be...

The gender gap across the tech industry is still prevalent. Futureheads’ co-founder, Be Kaler Pilgrim, was delighted to join forces with IT consulting firm, Waterstons, to discuss the importance of women in tech and what we can do to...

Our Futureheads #FutureorFantasy LinkedIn poll series has been regularly asking you whether the latest recruitment industry trends are future-gazing innovations, or fictional fantasies. From out-of-the-box technology and work life trends...

Our Head of People, Caroline Waylen, shares her views on the recruitment industry and how Futureheads can help...

Putting a great portfolio together and explaining projects on paper comes naturally to some, but here at Futureheads, we’ve noticed that when it comes to talking about work during in an interview, things don't always go well for...

What’s the story of your career so far and what do you love most about what you...

Did you know that as many as 70% of employers screen candidates by looking them up online? If you’re considering finding a new role, your online presence can matter just as much as your CV. In this blog we explore how to make sure your...

The world of work has seen change after change in recent years, spurred on by both the pandemic, and the global digital transformation that it has catalysed. With the effects of the new digital age spreading rapidly across the wider tech...

It’s no secret that the pandemic has had a tremendous impact on the world of work, and one of its many ramifications has been the impact on freelancers. To dig a little deeper, we asked over 180 people from our network a series of...

Liz Johnson is a Paralympic gold-medalist and founder of The Ability People, working to knock down barriers faced by people with disabilities in the workforce by helping organisations redefine how they view people with disabilities....

Despite what people think, writing a CV (a good CV) can be really difficult. How do I format it? How many pages should it be? What style of writing should I use? These are just some of the questions that come to mind when it comes...

In March 2021, we published the first steps of our diversity journey. We had identified that as a business, we didn’t talk about diversity enough and we needed an organised system for approaching ED&I with targets in place to help us...

Mags Hanley is a career coach, mentor and trainer, based in Melbourne Australia. She has worked in UX for over 25 years in the US, UK and Australia. Her passion is to help UX professionals find into the roles that suits them best.She works...

Sam Cohen is the COO and co-founder of Lifted, a Care-Tech company that aims to transform later life using tech to revolutionise the care experience for families and...

The thought of a job interview can be nerve-wracking, particularly for those who haven’t been in an interview situation for a long time, years perhaps. Here are our tips to help you feel prepared for the interview, and how to follow up...

Mark McDermott is the CEO of ScreenCloud, a global digital signage platform helping over 8,500 businesses communicate meaningful content using screens.He is also the co-founder of Codegent, an independent digital product studio based in...

Matthew Bagwell is a fully qualified and practicing Advanced Oxygen Advantage® Breathwork instructor, coaching across elite sports to people in need of specific support addressing physical and psychological conditions including depression...

Matt has 20 years experience starting and scaling business through digital media.As the founder of marketing technology business Driftrock, Matt helps brands like BMW, Honda and The University of Birmingham deliver marketing that...

Chris is a founding partner of Hypergolic, a machine learning product consultancy. He’s passionate about helping product teams to make the best use of machine learning, minimising time-to-value and maximising productivity. He’s been a...

Cynthia is head of UX at Shopify, and co-author of Tragic Design (O’Reilly). She has a knack for solving complex problems from a business and human lens. Her range of experience has brought her broad recognition as a leading expert in...

Robert is the Group Human Resources Director at Reward Gateway, an employee engagement platform. The business has over 1,800 clients using products to attract, engage and retain the best...

The business landscape is changing fast.As more businesses transition to remote working to keep their staff safe and slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus, hiring tactics are shifting to accommodate for self-isolation, with smart...

After an extremely tough year, the digital employment market has been bouncing back at speed in the last couple of months. At Futureheads we saw a 46% increase in vacancies in the first part of the year, and we’re expecting that trend will...

Throughout her career, Kristen Carter has navigated research, design and development at all stages of the product lifecycle—tackling complex and challenging projects with curiosity, an open mind, and desire for discovering meaningful...

Matt Pilgrim is an experienced channel and alliances director and is Partner Development Director for the UK business of global digital experience platform provider Episerver. Matt took five minutes to share his thoughts about the impact...

Christina is a product and technology leader with 15 years’ experience from pre-launch ventures to large scale business transformations in well-established businesses.Her expertise lies in product and technology strategy design and...

Michaela has been working as a UI Developer for 3 and a half years. She’s passionate about animation and interactions in web design &...

Uncertainty was a 2020 buzzword and nowhere more so than in the job market. Furlough, redundancies – for many, jobs were hard to come by, let alone job security. But, as we start a new year, it’s not all doom and gloom – far from it in...

Jonathan is the Chief of Staff at Lightful, a technology company for social good, who support charities through consultancy, social media products and a unique online learning...

Pete Trainor is a man on a mission to bring design, data, AI and technology together to empower humans to be happier and do more of what they’re good at. Pete is the bestselling author of “Human-Focused Digital” and the CEO of...

Anthony is a thought leader in technical leadership and organisational processes. He is a regular organiser & presenter at conferences and meetups, a tech blogger, and is active in the open source community – In particular the Umbraco...

As we continue to work together to navigate these uncharted waters, we were delighted last week to host renowned speakers Jason Mesut, Design Partner at Group of Humans, Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX and and Be Kaler-Pilgrim, our own...

Ben Gilmore is a lead UX Designer, teacher and mentor based in Melbourne, Australia. Ben has accumulated 18 years of UX design experience and managing design teams. Specialising in usability, web applications, design patterns, Search...

Amanda Connolly is a Senior People Specialist based in London, UK. She has worked in HR/People for over 20 years in the UK, Spain, New Zealand and the US, predominantly with Global SMEs. Her passion is to help tech start and scale ups...

Terry Brown is an engineer and leader with a passion for people, working across many industries in his 25 year career. He’s delivered digital products for the NHS, for academia, and has led engineering at one of the biggest online...

As virtual working has become the new normal, the need for effective onboarding could not be greater. Where office camaraderie and impromptu one-to-ones may have been the extent of your process before, the current climate calls for a new...

2020 really was a year to consign without regret to the history books. Throughout last year, we tracked the state of our industry as it rode the Covid waves of lockdowns and redundancies.It’s fair to say that our barometer from the summer...

Malay is head of UX/UI at the Risk and Compliance area of Deutsche Bank. He loves working on complex projects and is always looking for ways to make them efficient as well as enjoyable. Malay has experience in building globally distributed...

Sam Mountford is VP Engineering at SPOKE, a menswear brand that offers flawlessly-fitting chinos. SPOKE cuts their trousers in more sizes than found on the high street with a custom finish and a fit finder tool to find your perfect fit in...

Sally Brogan has over ten years’ experience, designing and building innovative, user-centric and data-led products as well as establishing and developing cross-functional teams. Her experience is predominantly in B2B SaaS products and she...

Charlie is 16 year old YouTuber from London and you can find his YouTube...

Aris Karidis is the CTO of Vendigo Finance, a London based fintech that has transformed the way consumers apply for finance for home...

There are a huge number of reasons anyone could consider a career change at any given time, but particularly in a downturn this idea could prove more tempting. Here are the things to...

Lee Cross is the co-founder and Managing Director of Skull Mountain, a digital product consultancy servicing a portfolio of clients comprised of global brands. He is also an associate director of three other professional services companies...

It has been a year quite unlike any other. There are some things which, for better or worse, have become synonymous with 2020 – banana bread and sourdough, the Zoom pub quiz, home-schooling. Against a backdrop of Covid, there have been...

Anita Guru is a Transformational life coach with a focus on mental wellbeing. Since completing her Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology, she has worked in Learning and Development for over 15 years across a variety of sectors,...

Eloise Tait is a Software Engineer who is currently working at Ministry of Justice. Although she has only been working in the tech industry for under six months, she has managed to make a great impact in that time, especially across...

Eszter Kovas is a Frontend Engineer who has worked as a developer for the past four years. She started her career working in Budapest before moving over to theUK to work for a top tier start up. She now lives in Edinburgh and has just...

Monica is a dynamic Fintech entrepreneur passionate about delivering solutions that create change in people’s financial lives. Her expertise is product development, customer experience and bringing the best out of...

John Hipkiss is a trained Laughter Therapist, with a background in music, consultancy, clowning and laughing! Known as ‘Laughing John’, he set up Laughter Therapy in 2009 with the aim of promoting Laughter Yoga, health and team...

One of the great things about being a recruitment business is that we can be a real conduit for positive change. We’ve always considered ourselves fairly good at championing diversity – with an all female founding team, and a diverse...

How can you create an inclusive work environment where disabled employees are set up to thrive?Liz Johnson, a Paralympic gold-medalist and founder of The Ability People, works to knock down barriers faced by people with disabilities in the...

We know this year hasn’t been easy and at Futureheads we’re committed to helping our community and sharing our expertise in any way we can. That’s why we decided to run a second #AskUsAnything Q&A series on LinkedIn, encouraging our...

When it comes to looking for work in the current climate, it certainly has affected the mental health of many. You do not have to look far to hear stories of others going through the same thing following redundancy or restructuring....

Hardy has been designing for the love of the people for the last 10 years within the digital space as an end to end product designer; carrying experiences from in-house design teams and leading digital agencies. He has been a part of big...

The Ability People (TAP) was co-founded by Steve Carter and retired Paralympian Liz Johnson in...

Guillaume Buat-Menard is a director at Flipside, a London based digital product agency part of Weber Shandwick.Flipside develops high end digital products, technical innovation and digital transformation for clients as diverse as Coca...

The aim of the day is to promote an understanding of disability issues and "mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with...

After a 25-year digital career helping a wide variety of organisations create easy to use tools and services, Liz Citron now supports people in the industry to navigate their careers and discover what is holding them back, so that they can...

Dave Lush is CTO at MindGym. He kindly took 5 minutes to share with us his career journey so far and the biggest lessons he’s learnt along the...

Carlos is a Global Director of IT at Springer Nature, a leading academic publisher. He is passionate about leveraging technology as a core driver of business and customer value, and how to lead individuals through an increasingly complex...

The past few months have been a rollercoaster, and much like the rest of the industry, we are having to learn and evolve rapidly to ensure we meet employer needs while continuing to support our candidate network.Our MD Nathan Callaghan has...

Jeff Gothelf is a coach, speaker, author and consultant who helps organisations build better products, and professionals build the cultures that build better products. In this guest blog he shares his thoughts on how you can experiment...

Are organisations taking real action to eliminate unconscious racial and gender...

Sandy Manuel is the co-founder of baytree.co, whose mission is to help create a better model of impact and disrupt venture with real ROI. He’s taught and led teams within innovation over a 20 year period, creating new innovation frameworks...

Rajeeb Dey MBE is the founder and CEO of Learnerbly, a professional development platform supporting employees to achieve their goals by connecting them to the best development experiences and enabling businesses to engage, develop and...

Adam Alton is a software developer with over a decade of experience building web applications for Google, The BBC, governments and more. His specialisms include online privacy, digital security and high-traffic web platforms. An...

In a landscape that seems to change the moment we get comfortable, staying relevant is rarely a case of sitting back and switching on the autopilot. It’s no secret that the current crisis has left swathes of the population questioning...

John Clarke is a self-taught software developer with nearly 20 years’ experience writing code and building things. After running a successful e-commerce business for a decade, he now finds himself working as Commercial Tech Lead for...

We are delighted to announce that Futureheads has been officially certified as a WEConnect International women’s business enterprise...

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