Izzy Pike Artificial Intelligence – are you a friend or a foe? AI is taking over aspects of human nature, our jobs and basic functions, all for the purpose of innovation. Scary to some, fascinating to others.
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Sophie Packer Is it time to hit the road, Jack? A lot of candidates I speak to have made the decision that for one reason or another, they aren’t fulfilled in their company and role, and want a new job.
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Izzy Pike When love and trust flow, the client, candidates, and community grow.
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Lucy Neal A core part of AI is to create technology that can help machines mimic the human ability to perceive the world around us.
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Lucy Neal Reduce, reuse and recycle, we can all make small changes to help protect our planet. Mother nature says thank you!
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Izzy Pike Happy Chinese New Year from our community to yours. It’s the year of the Rat, which brings with it the representation of a ‘new day’.
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Izzy Pike We have a new addition to the squad! Meet Chester - 10% pug, 90% poser. He will be assisting our consultants today with phone calls, meetings, and the occasional email.
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Izzy Pike Last week we held another ‘Meat-free Friday’ in our London offices, in aid of the ongoing Climate Strike and Veganuary/Veggie January.
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Izzy Pike This morning we’re attending Guidant Global’s wellbeing talk, titled ‘Driving performance with a people first strategy’. The discussion will touch upon how wellbeing and inclusion can be utilised to drive employee performance.
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Izzy Pike Introducing our most recent SODA Social Podcast, Episode 9, on 'The Rise of AI'. In this episode we discuss the Rise of AI for good with data scientist and AI expert, Dr. Stylianos Kampakis.
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Lucy Neal There are no resting grinch faces today as our teams brought some festive spirit to our offices, in our annual Christmas Jumper day.
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Izzy Pike Last night we held our annual Christmas party at St Bart’s Brewery, where our squad indulged in a delicious 3-course meal and sleighed the night away.
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Izzy Pike ‘Tis the season! We’re feeling festive in our offices as tonight we have our annual Christmas Party to recognise and celebrate SODA’s end of year growth, collaboration and development.
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Izzy Pike We attended the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) ‘The Future of Work is Accessible’ conference, an evening of live polls, inspiring talks, key insights, and knowledge sharing with the agenda on employing and recruiting people with disabilities.
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Izzy Pike Our D&I and CSR ambassador Lucy Eloise Neal is attending Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI)'s event, ‘The Future of Work is Accessible’ this evening.
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Lucy Neal SODA is proud to announce a new charity partnership for 2020 - with Smart Works Charity Charity Greater Manchester, which is part of the national Smart Works charity, providing high-quality clothes, mentoring and interview training to help unemployed women back into jobs
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Izzy Pike Meat-free Friday is back in our offices! We support the ongoing Climate Strike and to show this, we implement several CSR strategies such as cycle-to-work, clothes swaps and a monthly meat-free lunch.
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Lucy Neal We had the pleasure of having both Gabrielle and Susie on our most recent London-based Women in DevOps panel for an event titled ‘The New Age of DevOps’. We sat down with Susie and Gabrielle to continue the conversation and discuss all things DevOps related.
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Louise Latif I don’t always think of the perfect answer in a job interview… But when I do, it’s 15 minutes after I’ve left – typical!
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Lucy Neal We held our first American Meetup at Google's offices to discuss how we can tackle the gender DevOps gap in California.
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Izzy Pike Following on from winning the ‘Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year’ regional award at The Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2019, our SODA Squad are beyond proud to announce that our Directors Ashley Lawrence and Ben Adams are through to the national finals!
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Izzy Pike We had yet another thought-provoking, interactive panel discussion last night at our Women in DevOps Meetup!
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Izzy Pike We are a small company achieving big things, with international reach and unrivalled digital recruitment knowledge. As we grow and scale, we aim to expand our wider community to reflect our core values - depth of knowledge and strong long-term relationships.
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Lucy Neal At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month - we will remember them.
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Izzy Pike “Trust in SODA is not only seamless but strangely educational… We partnered with Trust in SODA at a crucial time in our growth. The team came to the offices, met with us, and tried to get a thorough understanding of the business, our aspirations and any hurdles that could hinder our growth.”
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Izzy Pike We've reached a huge milestone as we celebrate hitting 40,000 followers! This is one of our biggest achievements to date, and we're all on cloud nine as we give thanks to the ongoing support from our candidates, clients and community alike.
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Izzy Pike We are ecstatic to have been nominated and shortlisted at this year’s NORA Awards 2019.
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Izzy Pike Today we made our office spooktacular and even had our very own pumpkin patch.
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Izzy Pike Happy Diwali! Nothing makes us shine brighter than a five-day festival full of fun, friends and fireworks.
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Lucy Neal Over 11 million tons of recyclable clothing, shoes, and textiles make their way to landfills each year. With that in mind, our squad said 'see ya later' to fast fashion, as we held our first pop-up clothes swap shop in our London HQ.
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Lucy Neal We turned our Friday pink for Breast Cancer Now last week! Our office was like an office filled with pink flamingos as our team raised £60.40 and awareness for life-saving breast cancer research!
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Izzy Pike Last night our team got suited and booted for the Tiara Awards 2019, representing 'Growth Company of the Year' and 'Best Recruitment Company to work for £5 to £20m'.
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Izzy Pike A pitcher is worth a thousand words… Oktoberfest was a barrel of laughs for our high-achieving perm team.
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Izzy Pike Our SODA Squad are absolutely ecstatic to have won the ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ APSCo Award this year.
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Izzy Pike Today we want to take the time to talk about the importance of self-love and raise awareness of mental health.
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Izzy Pike From pilates at sunrise to fine dining at dusk, our yoga fanatics have returned from their Wellness Retreat, zenned out and chilled out.
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Izzy Pike And breathe… some of our squad are off on a Wellness Retreat this afternoon for a well-deserved rest.
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Izzy Pike Today we stand in solidarity with the younger and future generations to come as we join the #climatestrike to demand change on our home, the place we call earth.
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Izzy Pike Last night we had our ‘Autumn Edition: Leading DevOps to Achieve Success’, where we touched upon culture conversions and diversity within the workplace, data mining and privacy, restoring/performing backups and resolving data crashes – hosted by the lovely Facebook.
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Lucy Neal AI has made a global impact, with ground-breaking developments taking place all over the planet. People are concerned about terminator-style robot wars,
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Izzy Pike Baking news! From Biscoff Bakes to Brownie Bites, and a mouth-watering lemon drizzle, two worthy winners from our squad will be represented at The Great British Recruitment Agency Bake Off on Saturday 5th October.
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Izzy Pike Our sun-kissed squad have returned from the Golden Coast with a Beverly Hills tan and a Hollywood twang.
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Lucy Neal Our thrill-seekers Daniel Mapstone and Izzy Pike completed a 529ft-abseil off Broadgate Tower for the incredible charity, Orchid Cancer Appeal last weekend.
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Izzy Pike We want to take this day to remind everyone that help is just a text or phone call away.
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Izzy Pike Our SODA Squad are over the moon as we announce that we've been shortlisted for the APSCo Awards 2019, under the category 'Diversity and Inclusion'.
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Blaise Daldin Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) allows businesses large and small to contribute towards positive change in the wider community. When companies choose to do what is right, not only for their bottom line but also for society as a whole, they benefit themselves and build trust with consumers.
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Izzy Pike We are on cloud nine as we share our success of being shortlisted for the prestigious Investors in People Awards 2019 for ‘Employee Engagement’ and ‘Employer of the Year Gold (50-249 people)’.
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Lucy Neal Have you started preparing for IR35? Check out our ‘Preparation for IR35’ brochure here which contains a full guide on changes in the private sector.
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Izzy Pike Last night our SODA Social touched upon trusted values, audit algorithms, regulation and transparency to explore the rise of AI. We want to thank our panel speakers and community who engaged with insightful questions throughout the evening.
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Izzy Pike In light of the recent Amazonia disaster, we want to take some time today to think about how we can make small changes to help protect our planet.
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Lucy Neal We are super proud to have been shortlisted at the Tiara Awards 2019 for 'Growth Company of the Year' and 'Best Recruitment Company to Work For £5 to £20M'.
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Lucy Neal We value hard work and acknowledge ability, that’s why we hold our annual summer party to enable our SODA squad to let their hair down.
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Lucy Neal We're delighted to show our refreshing new rebrand. We felt that it is important that our own identity represents who we are, and what we do.
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Lucy Neal Our Soda Squad are beyond ecstatic, as we are delighted to announce that our Directors have been shortlisted for the 'Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year' category at this year's NatWest GBEA 2019.
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Lucy Neal Our client services squad were lucky enough to hit their quarterly sales target and took the Eurostar to Brussels!
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Lauren Langdell The tech scene in L.A is growing rapidly which has made us naturally drawn to it. The US market offers a familiar culture and language; there’s geographic proximity and a flourishing job market that we want to join and grow with.
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Lucy Neal We are beyond proud of our committed SODA squad who are passionate about getting it right for clients and contractors, with our knowledge culture where ethical engagement
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Lucy Neal We would just like to thank our community, our Trust in Soda Dublin based team, our speakers and of course Walmart labs for hosting us.
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Daniel Mapstone This isn’t a comprehensive guide to being a specialist recruiter as such, but rather just a few points to hopefully get you thinking slightly differently about the way you go about business. Start to ask these questions, think carefully about why you’re having the conversations you do.
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Lucy Neal Last night we launched our first of a series of Dublin-based Women in DevOps events.
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Lucy Neal Today we have launched in the world’s hottest tech scene and fastest growing tech ecosystem, none other than L.A.
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Lucy Neal Thank you to our community and speakers for coming to celebrate our TENTH event last night – Keep Your Head In The Clouds!
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Lucy Neal AI has already made a global impact. Some individuals maintaining a dystopian view on what the future of AI will look like. However, it cannot be ignored that AI is transforming lives,
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Lucy Neal We thoroughly enjoyed our IR35 event last night at Cass Business Executive Centre!
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Lucy Neal Pride is here! Celebrating 50 years of the LGBT+ movement
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Lucy Neal Move over Harry Kane and witness our soda squads fitness! We sent a squad of football fanatics to tackle it out in a charity football tournament for the incredible charity Street League
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We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a winner of the category 'Culture' at the The Lotus Awards!
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Lucy Neal Our SODA squad are feeling pretty chuffed today, as we are delighted to share the news of being shortlisted for 'Best Employer Brand’, at this years Global Recruiter Awards 2019.
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Lucy Neal Our Soda army took on a 10 mile to Tough Mudder Inc challenge to push themselves to the limit and raise money for charity.
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Lucy Neal Our Soda Squad's Easter egg-stravaganza - a busy morning in the office...
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Lucy Neal With guest speakers from the BBC and N26 it's going to be a good one!
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Lucy Neal We're one step closer to fulfilling our mission of being the most trusted digital recruiter on the planet!
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Lucy Neal Top o’ the morning. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit is Irish for Happy St Patrick’s Day!
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Lucy Neal Not only are we trusted recruiters, we are also trusted puppy sitters!
Read More Lucy Neal As an organisation powered by a powerful, fierce, resilient team of women we’d like to reflect and thank you for inspiring us.
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Lucy Neal The world has made progress on the problem of gender inequality, however, inequality is still a global issue.
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Lucy Neal A balanced and diverse workforce drives innovation and businesses need to do more than attract and retain women into their communities, we exist to bridge that gap.
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Lucy Neal We've hit 25,000 LinkedIn followers! We are dedicated in delivering specialist technology knowledge and expertise.
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Lucy Neal With every new year, comes an array of new trends, ways of thinking and designing. Last night we discussed what design trends will be taking over 2019. From thinking of you as a designer, how design will impact businesses and society our incredible speakers had it covered to the T!
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Lucy Neal Join us for our next SODA Social. With every new year, comes an array of new trends, ways of thinking and designing. This SODA Social will be uncovering what’s hot and what’s not for Design trends in 2019.
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Lucy Neal We have some great news to share. As you may or may not be aware, Investors in People visited our organisation and we are delighted to let you know that we have achieved the Investors in People Standard Gold level!
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Lucy Neal ur academic partner Glitch look beyond cyberbullying and e-safety education, the not-for-profit initiative have fun, impactful and high-quality activities to educate young people on their digital rights and responsibilities online.
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Lucy Neal We tested Manchester's inner Elon Musk with a range of challenging questions to do with all things digital. Join us a our next event to see what all the fuss is about.
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Lucy Neal Test your inner Elon Musk in our ultimate tech challenge. Questions will be highlighting the latest trends, current affairs and all things digital.
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Lucy Neal We'd like to welcome Tom Madeley as our first recruit in our Dublin office. Tom heads up Soda Ireland who recruits across development, data analytics, change and information security. Tom has a Law degree from Huddersfield in Yorkshire.
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Lucy Neal Its Christmas Jumper day in our offices, and this month we are raising money for the incredible charity The National Autistic Society. Check out out our team photo.
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Lucy Neal Welcome aboard to Ernest Owusu-Tucker and Adam Brinkley, the latest additions to our growing London SODA Squad. Ernest has joined our Contracts team and training academy.
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Lucy Neal 2018 has been a massive year for us! We are over the moon to announce the launch of our brand new office in Dublin. Ireland is the Silicon Valley of Europe, which represents a fantastic opportunity for us as a business to expand into Western Europe.
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Lucy Neal Our Founders Lauren Langdell and Lucy Eloise Neal have just returned from an incredible trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The duo spoke at their very first conference, DevOpsDays Rio de Janeiro. An incredibly well organised event that discussed a broad spectrum of DevOps related technologies, tools, automation, diversity, inclusion and the future.
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Lucy Neal Our next SODA Social event is taking place next month uncovering innovations that will have an impact on the planet, for the people and for the economy. The search for sustainability, has the ability to lead to innovation that yields cost savings, new designs, and competitive advantage. Essentially, achieving more with less.
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Lucy Neal It's that time of year again, as some of our SODA Squad, Hayley Killengrey and Lauren Langdell are attending the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Web Summit is considered to be the biggest and the best technology conference the planet has ever seen, showing new ways to build a future in the digital age.
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Lucy Neal We are growing and have officially opened a new office in Manchester! Our new office is conveniently located on 1 St Peters Square in central Manchester.
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Blaise Daldin How often do you look at a job description and question the title’s relevance? How often do you find yourself at a crossroads when trying to summarise a job in a title? Why do we face these dilemmas and what can we do to navigate our way successfully through the myriad, endless stream of job titles?
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Lucy Neal Check us out! Not only have we been named in LinkedIn's Top 25 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies of 2018!
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2018 has been a busy year for us, and it gives us great pleasure to announce Recruitment International UK has recognised our unique contribution, after not only being shortlisted for the prestigious category 'Best Recruitment Company to Work For up to £10 Million', but we WON!
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Lucy Neal Looking for something completely different? Well, nestled behind the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street, you'll find Facebook's HQ. We are collaborating with the social media giant, Facebook on the 26th November. Facebook's mission is to connect the world, bringing the world closer together.
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Lucy Neal We are community sponsors and speakers at DevOpsDays Rio de Janeiro on 9th and 10th of November 2018!
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Lucy Neal An evening challenging stereotypes and re-defining female role models in tech. After an incredible summer which kicked off our biggest event yet, we took Women in DevOps to the astounding PhotoBox HQ in Farringdon for our first ever panel discussion with Refinery29, Inc.
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Francesca Pollard It’s never easy deciding to turn your life upside down, but at the end of last year after several years working in the fashion industry, most recently in fashion retail management, I’d come to the decision enough was enough.
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Lucy Neal We’ve seen the application of AI in real life such as Facebook and autonomous cars. For the first time, humanity is creating technology that can develop itself. We discussed and debated whether or not AI can be emotionally intelligent and the consequences/forays into this area to date.
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Picture the scene, it’s 6.30pm on a Wednesday night, in the ‘breakout area’ of a leading tech house in Central London.
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Lucy Neal We’ve seen the application of AI in real life such as Facebook and autonomous cars. For the first time, humanity is creating technology that can develop itself. We will be discussing and debating whether or not AI can be emotionally intelligent and the consequences/forays into this area to date.
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As we push the boundaries of AI, what are our social responsibilities, what duty to we have to progress society emotionally as well as technologically and how should we think about psychological health and well-being.
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Lucy Neal Our very own Recruitment Consultant and Adrenalin junkie Francesca Pollard completed a charity skydive adn flew like a bird in aid of our amazing partner charity Enham Trust.
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I was sixteen, at college and the world of work was, for sure, unknown territory. Don’t get me wrong – I was eager, very eager, I just wanted to get started.
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Lauren Trent Organisations should be focusing on their employee’s wellbeing all the time – not just when they need it.
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Lucy Neal A day full of 20,000 hills, mud wrestles, hardcore obstacles including an epic ice cold bath, electric shocks and endless filth.
Read More Lucy Neal We only went and won 'Best Recruitment Company - Small 2018' last night! We are beyond ecstatic and feeling rather fragile to say the least! Thank you to our community, candidates, clients and SODA squad, we could not have achieved this without you!
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Lucy Neal We are super excited, flattered and immensely grateful to be included in the shortlist for Best Small Recruitment Agency 2018.
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Lucy Neal This is our first guest speaker meet up. This is the opportunity to engage with technology enthusiasts looking to expand knowledge and socialise.
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Lloyd Hulme What started as a bit of fun on LinkedIn has turned into my main source of candidate attraction.
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David Young The New Year has come, bringing that itchy feeling in its wake, with many determined to wave goodbye to unfulfilling jobs.
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Lucy Neal Read more on what Kostas Manolarakis has to say.
Read More Welcome aboard to Ernest Owusu-Tucker and Adam Brinkley, the latest additions to ou
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Lauren Langdell Earlier this month I landed at Stanstead Airport, exhausted, but with freshly sunkissed skin and my mind absolutely blown.
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Lucy Neal Our speakers for the evening were TED speaker, ex-Googler and now Product Design Manager at Facebook Jonah Jones confirmed and Global Product Director Brian Flanagan from Expedia.
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Lucy Neal Our speakers for the evening were TED speaker, ex-Googler and now Product Design Manager at Facebook Jonah Jones confirmed and Global Product Director Brian Flanagan from Expedia.
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Hayley Killengrey Understanding and connecting with our audience is something we are extremely passion about.
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Sam Taylor 2017 and the power of data is more influential than it has ever been.
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Lucy Neal Read more about what Aino Hanttu has to say
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Lucy Neal Read more about what Jose Alves has to say
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We are super excited and so should you be for the next SODA Social event coming up at the Trampery in Shoreditch and the topic will be....
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YES! Another exciting event is to be held on the 21st September 2016 at the fantastic ACE Hotel in Shoreditch and will be themed around ‘How not to Suck at DevOps’
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Lauren Langdell Except you've been there 18 months and you're yet to see a snippet of stock, still doing the same work you did on day one and you're spending lunch time on the Easy Jet website booking a last minute trip away for you and your missus to the Costa Del Sol because the over time didn't convert into $$ and that pool party at the Caesars palace.
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David Young On Wednesday 27th July, Trust In Soda hosted another EXTREMELY successful event at the ACE Hotel in Shoreditch.
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David Young Afternoon of Celebration at the SODA office!
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Lucy Neal Recruiters are now like the “Traffic wardens” of the digital world and we need to change that. (The only other profession I could think of that seems to really grind everyone’s gears! Sorry!)
Read More Sam Taylor Between July 1st - September 1st all English football clubs have the freedom to buy and sell players primarily to bolster their squads and ensure they are set up to achieve their goals for the new season.
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Hayley Killengrey As I stood at the top of the Basilica Papale di San Pietro, in the Vatican City I gasped at just how beautiful the view in front of me was until… I was quickly spun around by my Italian companion for the perfect ‘selfie’ opportunity.
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Ashley Lawrence Once the topic of Artificial Intelligence creeps into conversation, an inescapable sci-fi plot plays through my mind… you know the typical, man-made intelligence exceeds limits and turns on the creator.
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Ashley Lawrence As tech giants Google, Apple and Microsoft light the way in the advancement of recent developments, within wearable technology & as the middle mark for 2015 looms…
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David Young For an outstanding performance in the first half of 2015, Soda rewarded 5 members of the sales team with an amazing trip to Hvar, Croatia.
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David Young Soda Social last night was a roaring success!
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David Young We are tremendously proud to win Best Newcomer at the Mara 2014!
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David Young SODA are proud to announce that we are now members of APSCo (The Association of Professional Staffing Companies) APSCo was founded in 1999 and is the only trade body dedicated to representing the interest of UK professional staffing industry.
Read More David Young Are you struggling with your CV? We’ve all been there... Writing your CV is a pain in the flipping side.
Read More Ashley Lawrence Leading UX professional and Zedko Director Oli sutton gives his views on what to look for in a UX candidate or agency.
Read More Ashley Lawrence Following the recent controversy in the Node.js community, the ousting of a prominent contributor to the Node.js core and the fact that Isaac Schlueter has stepped down from leading the project pursuing his own startup, I was wondering how long it would take until a new fork of Node.js appeared.
Read More David Young The nature, scope and prevalence of UX has exploded in the last few years. From humble beginnings rooted in geekish usability, User Experience is now everywhere and on the lips of corporations, recruiters and graduates alike.
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