Principal Technology Consultant
Worcester
Steve Brennan
Principal Consultant
Specialises in :
Multiple roles across the IT function including IT Support and Infrastructure Professionals, Software Developers, Data / MI professionals, business analysts, Architects and many more.
Background and experience :
As A Principal Consultant at Eligo I work with clients to secure a clear understanding of the recruitment challenges they face. This ranges from the need to Identify a key individual who is the missing piece of the departmental jigsaw to managing campaigns that are geared to deliver a step-change in IT capability by building teams using permanent and/or contract IT resources.
I am an experienced recruitment professional with over 25 years of experience helping businesses to build the IT team they need to support their organisation. This has ranged from small flexible IT teams looking for that one missing person, to working with large blue-chip clients in the public and private sector to recruit substantial teams. Whilst shaping a culture and capability that enables the implementation of business transformations.
As a result, I have recruited many roles across the IT function including IT Support and Infrastructure Professionals, Software Developers, Data / MI professionals, business analysts, Architects, and members of the IT management and leadership teams up to and including members of the SMT.
I would claim the defining characteristic that enables me to be a success in IT recruitment is that I listen, both to candidates and clients, and use a radical approach to recruitment, I tell the truth about candidates and clients to each other at all times. It's worked so far so I’m sticking with it!
I work with clients developing and delivering recruitment strategies and the resulting campaigns using Executive Search, Advertised Search, and Database Search methodologies, focusing on delivering the highest levels of customer service in the IT Recruitment sector.
If you are a client you can be confident that we will recommend the combination of services you need to solve your recruitment challenge as we have the capacity and capability to adapt to the needs of our clients. If you are a candidate you can be confident that if I ask permission to represent you for a role that I believe you can add real value and will have been open with you about both the challenges and benefits of the role.
Interesting fact about me:
My daughter competes internationally as an U63KG Strongwoman
Steve's articles
As we inch our way into Autumn let's take a look back at the top news from September; a report finds Whatsapp moderators can read your messages, a flaw in Travis CI exposed secrets of thousands of open-source projects, computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 and much more. WhatsApp moderators can read your messages, says report WhatsApp, which uses end-to-end encryption and makes a big deal about privacy, is not actually as private as owner Facebook claims, according to a new report by ProPublica. According to ProPublica, Facebook's moderator contract firm, Accenture, employs at least 1,000 moderators who sit in offices in Texas, Austin, Dublin, and Singapore and sift through users' private messages, flagged by the service's own algorithms and other users. Read more here (Computing) Travis CI flaw exposed thousands of open-source projects’ secrets A flaw in popular software testing tool Travis CI exposed the secrets of thousands of open-source projects. Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub and Bitbucket. For at least a week – between 3-10 Sept – open-source repos that used Travis CI had their keys, credentials, and tokens exposed. Read more here (Developer-Tech) New study suggests developer interest in Mac is waning New estimates suggest developers are losing interest in releasing new apps on the Mac App Store, with new releases per month down to below 300 titles in June and July. According to metrics gathered by AppFigures, the average number of new Mac App Store releases hovered at 343 apps per month so far in 2021. That compares to an average of 392 apps per month across 2020. Read more here (Apple Insider) Australia, UK, and US Announce Security Partnership The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have announced a historic trilateral security and defense agreement. Under the new AUKUS pact, the three nations will cooperate more closely than ever before in several areas that include artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities, quantum computing critical technology, and defense-related industrial bases and supply chains. Read more here (Info Security Magazine) Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair, who popularised the home computer and invented the pocket calculator, has died at his London home aged 81. His daughter Belinda Sinclair said he passed away on Thursday morning after having cancer for more than a decade. His ZX Spectrum computers brought affordable personal computing to the masses - selling in their millions across the world. Read more here (BBC News) London ranked world’s second most innovative city According to a comprehensive ranking of international startup hubs compiled by Startup Genome for its annual Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021, London is the leading destination to grow a technology business outside of Silicon Valley. The city maintained its second-place ranking tied with New York for the second year in a row. Released to coincide with London Tech Week, the findings revealed that the UK capital’s startup ecosystem is by far the largest in Europe, with a total value of $142.7 billion. Read more here (UKTN) 4 non-technical skills for a successful coding career When we think about people skills, and using them, in a technology environment, examples can vary from showing empathy for users to having self-awareness and good problem-solving techniques. These examples of non-technical transferable skills actually can make a much bigger impact on your role and become just as important as your coding ability. Read more here Latest Jobs Java Developer - Artificial Intelligence £40,000 - £80,000 - Birmingham Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer £55,000 - £70,000 - Berkshire System Administrator £58,000 - £61,000 - London, West End GoLang Developer £40,000 - £60,000 - Birmingham Mac Infrastructure Engineer £58,000 - £61,000 - London Software Development Team Lead £60,000 - £80,000 - Birmingham Python Developer £50,000 - £65,000 - Birmingham macOS 2nd line IT Support Analyst £30,000 - £32,000 - London
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