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 <p>                     <strong>                       But we’re now striving to be better and to drive positive                       change. We firmly believe that everyone is welcome at                       Futureheads, and we aim to demonstrate that in everything                       we do.                     </strong>                   </p>                   We’re committed to creating a culture that reflects the                   make-up of society, we believe diversity promotes innovation,                   growth and equality. We are committed to being intentionally                   inclusive by understanding who we have in our culture and how                   we can best add equity to each individual, and contribute                   towards their professional development. We are actively                   helping our clients do the same. We celebrate the difference                   and rich experience that diversity brings, and we commit to                   ensuring that everyone we interact with, both within and                   outside our business, is valued, respected, and treated                   equally, regardless of their background, identity or                   circumstances. We aim to understand every individual’s                   capabilities, and to give them what they need to succeed to                   their fullest potential.

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Futureheads have partnered with a rapidly growing Saas scale up who are looking to add to their team as they continue to build out new products and features.<br><br><br><br>The ideal candidate being someone who is happy to work across the stack and are happy to be product focused, as well as having a stong skillset in architecture and AI. <br><br><br><br>Tech stack is: Vue/Nuxt, Laravel/PHP, Kubernetes, AWS<br><br><br>The team are four days a week in the central London office<br><br><br><br>Salary is £70-100k plus extensive benefits.<br><br><br><br>Must be based in the UK and have UK right to work, sponsorship isn't available for this role.<br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Senior Full Stack Developer (Vue/Laravel)

<strong>Cloud Engineer (OCI / Asset Repo Project)</strong><br><strong> Contract 3 weeks initially – Immediate start (Mon)- £500-525 Outside Ir35</strong><br> Location: Remote / UK-based preferred<br><br>Futureheads are hiring on behalf of our client<br> We’re looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineer to help our client rapidly spin up and stabilise an asset repository and related infrastructure for a 3D content pipeline.<br> The project You’ll be owning two complementary pieces of work:<br><ol><li><strong>Phase 1 – Asset repo / Perforce setup</strong></li></ol><ul><li>Reset and spin up a local Perforce server for asset management</li><li>Work through an existing “how‑to” / runbook and tick-list to get the asset repo fully operational</li><li>Ensure the setup is robust and production-ready</li></ul><ol><li><strong>Phase 2 – Headless CMS deployment</strong></li></ol><ul><li>Deploy a headless CMS into the existing infrastructure (running on OCI today)</li><li>Likely via a VM-based deployment, with consideration for scalability and reliability</li><li>Work with the internal team to integrate the CMS with an Unreal Engine-based experience</li></ul>You’ll stick around for up to three weeks to verify everything is running smoothly and support any tweaks as the project moves towards go-live.<br> Tech & experience We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate most of the following:<br><ul><li>Strong experience as a <strong>Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer</strong></li><li><strong>Ansible</strong> for configuration and automation</li><li>Familiarity with <strong>Terraform</strong> (ideally with OCI, but strong Terraform in another major cloud is fine)</li><li>Experience with <strong>Perforce</strong> or similar version control in asset-heavy / game / 3D environments</li><li>Experience deploying and operating a <strong>headless CMS</strong> (any modern option considered)</li><li>Solid understanding of virtual machines, networking, and basic scalability concerns</li></ul>Direct <strong>OCI</strong> experience is a nice-to-have, not mandatory. A willingness and ability to pick up OCI quickly is key. You’ll have access to internal guidance and an “owner’s guide” to the environment.<br> Future potential This engagement is initially a short contract (2–3 weeks) to set the scene: the asset repo is part of a broader platform (CI/CD, asset distribution, cross-pixel streaming) used for 3D development.<br> If the collaboration goes well, there is likely to be <strong>further work</strong> as the client rolls out more services and potentially evolves the platform (including possible moves to GCP or other clouds).<br> What you’ll get<ul><li>Immediate, meaningful impact on a high-profile 3D / Unreal project</li><li>Clear, bounded deliverables and direct access to the technical owner</li><li>Potential for ongoing work across a broader cloud platform</li></ul><br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Cloud Engineer

<strong>Software Engineer | Award-Winning ClimateTech | Up to £75,000 p/a</strong><br><br><strong>💻 Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin</strong><br><strong>💚 Critical ClimateTech Infrastructure</strong><br><strong>🏆 Best Workplaces™ multi-year award</strong><br><strong>📍 Central London - 2 days per week</strong><br><strong>💰 Up to £75,000 p/a   bonus</strong><br><br>We’re partnered with a fast-growing ClimateTech business building <strong>mission-critical software</strong> at the heart of the energy transition. Join a <strong>small, high-impact engineering team</strong> solving complex, real-world problems where your work directly affects system reliability, revenue, and customer experience.<br><br>The work is hands-on, product-led, and far removed from feature-factory engineering.<br><br>The Role<br><br>As a Software Engineer, you’ll work primarily on <strong>backend systems</strong> that power high-availability, transaction-heavy services. You’ll take real ownership of core functionality, contributing across design, build, and continuous improvement.<br><br>You’ll be involved in initiatives such as:<br><ul><li>Improving system reliability and success rates across critical user journeys</li><li>Building pricing and configuration logic that responds to real-world demand patterns</li><li>Developing and scaling automated payment and transactional workflows</li><li>Working closely with product and data teams to turn insight into shipped features</li></ul><br>Despite the backend emphasis, there’s scope to get involved across the stack if that interests you.<br><br>What You’ll Bring<br><br><ul><li>Commercial experience building backend systems, ideally using <strong>Java/Kotlin </strong>but<strong> </strong>other languages considered</li><li>A solid understanding of building <strong>scalable, resilient services</strong> in production</li><li>Comfort working in <strong>smaller teams</strong>, wearing multiple hats, and operating outside rigid role boundaries</li><li>A product-minded approach - you care about <em>why</em> you’re building something, not just how</li><li>Strong fundamentals and a willingness to learn and evolve with the tech stack</li><li>Clear communication and a collaborative, low-ego working style</li></ul><br>Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), modern frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code is beneficial, but mindset and ownership matter most.<br><br>What’s on Offer<br><br><ul><li>Salary in the region of <strong>£65,000–£75,000</strong>, depending on experience</li><li>Strong holiday, pension and discretionary bonuses</li><li>Real ownership and influence over systems that matter</li><li>A flexible <strong>hybrid working setup</strong> with a central London office (2 days per week)</li><li>A values-led, inclusive engineering culture focused on long-term quality</li><li>Strong learning and development support</li><li>The opportunity to work on software with <strong>tangible environmental impact</strong></li></ul><br>If you’re a Software Engineer ready to make a crucial impact at this pivotal stage of the energy transition, apply today to join a high-growth, mission-driven team.<br><br><strong>Software Engineer | Award-Winning ClimateTech | Up to £75,000 p/a</strong><br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Software Engineer | Award-Winning ClimateTech | Up to £75,000 p/a

Futureheads have partnered with a health and fitness start up who have release a dietary managment and coaching application, leveraging AI and bespoke personal coaching to help customers hit their health and fitness goals. They are in a position where they are already in profit and have some interesting updates on the horizon. <br>Their Front end and mobile application are in a good place but they need someone to come in and own, build the backend architecture, set up API calls and ensure it's scalable due to the forecasted growth. You'll also Work with LLMs and AI tools to support coach productivity and personalised user experiences. They are ideally looking for someone who has worked within an early stage start up for three years and has contributed to a product scaling. The stack is TypeScript, Node, CGP, GraphQL and on the Front end it's React and React Native. The role is fully remote in the UK. Salary is £85-120k dependent upon experience. No sponsorship is available for this role. <br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Founding Backend Engineer

Urgent Contract | Senior QA Automation Engineer | Up to £300/day (Outside)<br><ul><li>Senior QA Automation Engineer</li><li>Own QA at an award-winning BioTech company</li><li>Modern QA Automation tools/frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium etc)</li></ul>I’m working with an award-winning BioTech company with over two decades of success. Their scientifically backed, leading high street product has transformed thousands of lives and they are constantly evolving with an ever-growing customer base and successful e-commerce and subscription model.<br><br>To support this evolution, we are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer on a 6-month contractual basis. You’ll have proficiency in test automation, modern QA tools and familiarity with key testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium etc. You will have considerable responsibility and autonomy in the role, taking over the QA process from the embedded digital product team. Ideally, you would also have experience with subscription/e-commerce platforms, although this isn’t a hard requirement.<br> <br>If you’re an immediately available Senior QA Automation Engineer, get in touch via message, or email james.adamson@wearefutureheads.co.uk<br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

QA Engineer

Futureheads have exclisively partnered with a high growth FinTech who are building institutional infrastructure for digital assets, they are now after a Senior Back End Developer to jin their team.<br><br>It’s a hands-on leadership position where you’d work closely alongside the Business Owner and the Head of Engineering and help spearhead the backend development of a B2B client facing exchange platform which is built out in Rust.<br><br>Functionality includes:<br><br>Market Making (MM)<br>OTC Spot<br>Staking<br>Loans<br><br>The setup is hybrid in Paris (this is negotiable and could be remote first) up to €110k   bonus, with a strong engineering culture and a global footprint (this again could be negotiated if needed).Sponsorship is available for this position on a selective basis. <br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Senior Back End Developer

Futureheads have exclusively partnered with an climate accounting start up who are helping businesses understand their carbon output in order for them to be able to make positive changes to reduce their carbon footprint. Having gone from strenght to strength in amassing end clients and being profitable, they are now looking to add to their small but mighty engineering team. <br><br>They are after a Product Engineer who's not only passionate about both the product and mission but also someone who has worked end to end before, preferably at early stages where they have taken on a fair amount of ownership and helped shape and build upon a product from early stages. As there is a fair amount of data ingestion they are focussing on people with strong experieince in GCP and PostgreSQL (similar cloud and object-relational database management system experience would be considered) as well as JavaScript frameworks. The role is based in Rotterdam, NL and will be 2-3 days per week in the office.<br><br>Salary is €70-100k plus extensive benefits. <br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Senior Product Developer

<p>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&rsquo;s learnt along the way.</p>

<p>What&rsquo;s the story of your career so far?</p>
<p>My first technical role was with a 10 person company in Reading. The guidance given to me and another graduate was &ldquo;make this work in the web&rdquo;. From there we had to teach ourselves above source control, continuous integration, multi-tier architectures, bug tracking, hosting&hellip; Everything&hellip; It was brilliant! I haven&rsquo;t looked back since then. I moved on to spend 9 years with Visa focusing primarily on mobile and online payments, before moving to ONZO (a data analytics start up) and most recently Mind Gym.</p>
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<p>I&rsquo;ve walked what is probably a typical path. I tend to speak up and help keep teams organised / focused. This has naturally landed me in team-lead followed by management positions. I&rsquo;ve needed to keep learning new skill sets that are not purely technical. I then found myself getting further away from the technology than I wanted and focussed in on small to medium size technology teams.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>What do you love most about what you do?</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve considered going back to being an individual contributor multiple times. If ever did I would not be able to live without the diversity of my current role</p>
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<p>I love shifting between detailed technical, process, motivation, leadership, commercial and compliance issues (to name just a few). I really enjoy the constant flow of learning new specialisms in order to help guide us to the right decisions for the business.</p>
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<p>What&rsquo;s the most important lesson you learned in 2020 amidst all the Covid-19 disruption?</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve been working and managing remotely on and off for the past four years. I used to think that it was quite easy. What I now realise is that it is hard to maintain the strong social bond in your team when the option to meet face-to-face is taken away. We&rsquo;ve had to put in place &ldquo;scheduled fun&rdquo; to stop people from working a little during the day and just get online to play a game of https://skribbl.io/ or grab a coffee together. It&rsquo;s too easy to not make the time.</p>
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<p>I realise this is two lessons, but I&rsquo;ve also learnt how lucky I am to have a comfortable home situation with fairly open spaces nearby</p>
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<p>As far as you can predict, what&rsquo;s on the cards this year for you and your business?</p>
<p>Exciting times! Over the past year we&rsquo;ve built up a seed of an engineering team with a combination of talent and experience. They have gelled as a group and are moving ever quicker with their software deliveries. In the coming year we plan on adding to this team with a diverse mixture of experience levels and backgrounds to push us on even further.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The team is working on a set of products that has potential to genuinely disrupt our sector and gets to work with an excellent tech stack (https://stackshare.io/mind-gym/mind-gym)</p>
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<p>If you could go back and do it all over again, would you choose a different career path and why?</p>
<p>100% I would not change career path. I&rsquo;ve loved the challenges I&rsquo;ve encountered, the things we&rsquo;ve been able to create and the people I&rsquo;ve had the opportunity to work with. If I could do one thing differently it would have been to move on from financial services a little earlier. Part of the joy of technology is that you get to move between different industries and there is a lot out there to explore.</p>
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<p>Hopefully I have a long career ahead of me yet, with plenty of time to learn about new industries!</p>

Futureheads Five Stories – Dave Lush

<p>Guillaume Buat-Menard is a director at Flipside, a London based digital product agency part of Weber Shandwick.</p>
<p>Flipside develops high end digital products, technical innovation and digital transformation for clients as diverse as Coca Cola, Novartis, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, Scope and Public Health England.</p>

<p>Flipside acquired Aqueduct in January 2020, where Guillaume developed a practical digital transformation offering for organisations in need of support during their own transformation. He currently leads the digital transformation practice at Flipside.</p>
<p>Guillaume is an agile and beyond budgeting enthusiast and believes in learning by doing, which, underpins Flipside&rsquo;s approach to digital transformation.</p>
<h2>1. In what shape has your business emerged from Covid-19?</h2>
<p>Really well actually. In terms of logistics and IT we already had a remote working culture, so it was not difficult to adapt to the lockdown. We had to adapt somewhat, rationalise and reduce regular meetings, and ensure everybody has a decent home working set-up.</p>
<p>In terms of business we are lucky enough that we have a broad client base across many verticals, so whilst some clients have slowed or paused projects, some have continued as usual and some have increased spend due to COVID.</p>
<p>This means that financially we are in a good position compared to our competitors.</p>
<h2>2. What are the most important and emerging skills to work in the new normal?</h2>
<p>I would say that the most important thing is to have a positive attitude to change and take initiative at all levels. These skills are basically akin to agile ways of working, dealing with constant change as a normality and having the right processes to thrive financially in that environment. In order to achieve this, the most successful companies have switched from a hierarchical management culture to an empowered autonomous one with leadership at all levels. Concretely, this means getting managers to lead and support their colleagues rather than micromanage them, and involve the managers more in doing some of the client work &ndash; this also means organisation can react better to workload spikes.</p>
<h2>3. What changes have you made in operations and hiring that are here to stay, and what will you lose?</h2>
<p>The main change was to have more openness and clarity on how the business is run on a daily basis, and give everyone access to some financial numbers. This was so that they all knew how we are doing and why we are making certain decisions.</p>
<p>In terms of hiring, the process is not that different as video calls and interviews are ubiquitous, but I must admit it is not easy for new starters to get inducted and get to know people quickly. In order to help them and the other members of staff to get a sense of community, we organise &lsquo;virtual desks&rsquo; chatrooms (which mimic office desks with colleagues) and regular virtual company meets so social interactions can still happen, albeit online.</p>
<h2>4. What has been your biggest key learning and how will this prepare you for the future?</h2>
<p>Our perceived constraints are only what we make of them, for example: we can&rsquo;t all work from home, we can&rsquo;t trust people to do the right thing, we can&rsquo;t adopt a new technology rapidly, we can&rsquo;t change that fast and so on.</p>
<p>As Henry Ford used to say &ldquo;Whether you think you can, or you think you can&rsquo;t, you&rsquo;re right&rdquo;</p>
<p>Akin to agile principles, the key learning for me is that organisations must transform to adapt to change and not just to weather the current situation. Companies must embrace business agility and set-up for continuous change so they can constantly adapt to a rapidly changing world.</p>
<p>People and organisations can change and adapt pretty quickly, as long as they know why, and they have visibility and rationale for the decision making. This requires strong leadership and a shift from &lsquo;command and control&rsquo; to &lsquo;autonomy and purpose&rsquo;, it means changing processes, governance, incentivisation and shifting the focus of many roles and supporting them transition without fear.</p>
<h2>5. What has been the biggest surprise to you?</h2>
<p>The speed at which most organisations have taken to remote working and moved their business online when it seemed almost impossible, or a very lengthy process, for most of them before COVID. It really shows that nothing prepares people as much as contact with the enemy, and when radical change happens, most of us can adapt very rapidly.</p>

Futureheads Five Stories – Guillaume Buat-Ménard

<p>It has been a year quite unlike any other. There are some things which, for better or worse, have become synonymous with 2020 &ndash; banana bread and sourdough, the Zoom pub quiz, home-schooling. Against a backdrop of Covid, there have been cultural and social phenomena which have grabbed the nation&rsquo;s attention &ndash; Black Lives Matter, the Greta effect and Marcus Rashford, among others.</p>
<p>But we&rsquo;re not here to talk about the obvious. Instead, we&rsquo;ve delved deeper into 2020 to uncover a few of the lesser known trends that may have simply passed you by.</p>

<h2>Going NOLO</h2>
<p>Surprisingly,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">sales of low and no-alcohol (NOLO) drinks</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">soared 30% in the UK during lockdown.</span>&nbsp;Waitrose, for example, saw a 54% increase in low and no-alcohol ale compared to the same time last year as many consumers now choose to go dry. UK drinking habits, particularly among the younger generations, have been edging towards a hangover-free future over the last couple of years and, despite what you may think, it appears that the stresses of lockdown and homeschooling actually didn&rsquo;t end up driving everyone to drink.</p>
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<h2>The rise of the newsletter</h2>
<p>Already starting to edge their way into the mainstream last year, the rise of email newsletters in 2020 has been supersonic. They&rsquo;ve become the go-to channel for brands and individual writers alike, thanks largely to the growth in popular platforms such as Substack and Mailchimp. In our opinion,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">newsletters offer a welcome return to a direct relationship between publisher and reader</span>, driven by good old-fashioned content and entirely unaffected by the increasingly frustrating algorithms of Facebook et al. Long may they continue.</p>
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<h2>Reaching for the past</h2>
<p>Speaking of old-fashioned, in times of crisis, it&rsquo;s a well known fact that we tend to turn to nostalgia to give us that warm comforting hug of familiarity and feeling of security. During the first lockdown,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Spotify reported a 54% increase in searches for &lsquo;oldies&rsquo; or &lsquo;throwback&rsquo; with a surge in nostalgic playlists.</span>&nbsp;And it&rsquo;s not just music that we&rsquo;ve been using as a comfort blanket; UK consumers have been revisiting dishes from their childhood too. According to Co-op, sales of packet trifle have increased this year by a staggering 738%&hellip;</p>
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<h2>Elasticated waistbands</h2>
<p>Given all that nostalgic eating, the Telegraph&rsquo;s report that&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">sales of trousers with elasticated waistbands rose by 16% this year</span>&nbsp;should come as no surprise. With most of us working from home, work smart has gone out the window and the elasticated waistband combines comfort (without going quite as far as all-day pajamas) with some level of respectability. Who would have thought that the mainstay of 1930s fashion would make such a comeback?</p>
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<h2>Surge in adult e-learning</h2>
<p>Whether down to furlough, redundancy or simply the absence of the daily grinding commute, we&rsquo;ve all found ourselves with a bit of unexpected extra time this year. Some have used it to grow their side-hustle&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">(1 in 5 of us have one apparently)</span>, others have spent hours learning entirely new skills. Enrolments on online courses have surged this year as we look to alleviate lockdown boredom or change our career path entirely, and digital is the hot ticket. The UK&rsquo;s Institute of Coding, for instance, saw an enormous jump in learners on their digital skills courses from 32,000 in January to more than 400,000 by June.</p>
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Lesser Known Trends of 2020

<p>The thought of a job interview can be nerve-wracking, particularly for those who haven&rsquo;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 when that fantastic job offer comes along.</p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Prepare to stand out at interview:</span>&nbsp;Do your research! Check out your interviewers on Linkedin; get to know their background. You may have shared connections, or interests! Check out the product, be ready to give balanced feedback about what you like, and ideas for improvements. Prepare a list of questions; sometimes a great question is as good as a great answer. If you can ask them a question that really makes them think, challenges their assumptions or fuels further debate, they&rsquo;ll remember it!</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Do your reading:</span>&nbsp;Here are some of the most important technology developments around at the moment, so make sure you&rsquo;ve done your homework if the job is tech-related:</p>
<p>Healthcare: Data privacy and innovation within telemedicine&nbsp;Education: Adaptive content &amp; investment in online learning&nbsp;Fintech: strategic partnerships and marketplaces&nbsp;Insurance: AI for risk management &amp; case management<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Following up after an interview:</span>&nbsp;Sending a positive follow-up email can leave a great final impression on the hirer, but be mindful that the reader is likely to be time-poor so keep it brief. Thank them for their time and reaffirm your interest in the position. If something didn&rsquo;t go well, acknowledge it, and offer new suggestions having reflected on the question or task.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Negotiating salary following a job offer:</span>&nbsp;You performed fantastically at the interview and they&rsquo;ve offered you the job, so now&rsquo;s the time to discuss salary which many can find tricky. Try and get an understanding of the salary on offer prior to communicating your expectations, give context around your thoughts and offer some level of benchmarking to show you know the industry. Communicate other motivations for joining the business as well as financial ones; employers want to hire candidates that are invested in their brand and product; while money is important, it shouldn&rsquo;t be the primary motivator.</p>

Futureheads Top Tips series: Preparing for that interview and getting the job!

<p>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.</p>
<p>She works with primarily with senior practitioners moving into leadership, and senior women defining their role for the next phase of their lives. She has recently launched a new 8-week programme The Way Forward for senior women in digital.</p>
<p>You can connect with Mags on&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/magshanley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;or read her latest blogs on her&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://magshanley.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website.</a></p>

<h2>What&rsquo;s the story of your career so far?</h2>
<p>I started in digital when it was called Multi-Media. I fell into the work, having trained as a librarian and graduated in a recession &ndash; no grad positions for me!</p>
<p>My first role was at Yellow Pages in Australia as a Cybrarian &ndash; so 1990s. As we were all making it up, I asked if I could look after the search engine, because I knew how people searched &ndash; and my career as an IA started.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve lived and worked in the US and UK for 15 years, and have been back in Australia for 5 &frac12; years.</p>
<p>My career has been varied; an IA, project manager, product manager, Head of UX, Executive Producer, Consultant. The one I love the most is Career coach, Mentor and Trainer.</p>
<p>In the last year, I have developed a practice supporting senior practitioners move into leadership, and women in Design to thrive in their careers.</p>
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<h2>What&rsquo;s the most important lesson you&rsquo;ve learnt over the course of your career?</h2>
<p>Be authentic and true to yourself!</p>
<p>I love managing people and products, and seeing both grow, but I have struggled all of my career managing up. I&rsquo;ve improved over time, working relationships with the mostly male leadership, but this has been my greatest weakness.</p>
<p>To move into the higher levels of digital management I felt I wasn&rsquo;t myself; I had to be less emotional, female, and kind. I left my last job feeling disheartened, stressed and unconfident in my skills.</p>
<p>I saw Bren&eacute; Brown speak a week after leaving that job, and did the Value assessment. I realised I was not living my values of authenticity and kindness. So any new opportunity must match my values.</p>
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<h2>How can organisations ensure they thrive, rather than simply survive, as they attempt to return to a &lsquo;new&rsquo; normal over the next few months?</h2>
<p>There are a number of realisations for organisations:</p>
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<li>The commute to the inner city office is wasted time &ndash; people love the extra time with their families.</li>
<li>Knowledge workers can be productive working from home. I&rsquo;ve had a number of bosses who have actively discouraged it, thinking we were skiving off.</li>
<li>Child care and flexibility is important to keep women in the workforce. The burden of looking after children intensified as women worked from home.</li>
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<p>To thrive, organisations should look at what worked well &ndash; with their staff &ndash; and leverage it.</p>
<p>They should:</p>
<p>Plan for the majority of staff to work from home&nbsp;Reimagine work spaces as distributed hubs where people come in collaborate&nbsp;Find the best online tools for collaboration&nbsp;Provide support for their team&rsquo;s mental health&nbsp;Used the money saved from corporate office leases to include child care in their benefits packages&nbsp;</p>
<h2>You&rsquo;ve recently written a blog about the challenges faced by women in UX and in particular by those women who are well into their careers &ndash; can you tell us more about that, and how women can really exploit the opportunities available to them in the digital workplace?</h2>
<p>Many of my peers have been 20-25 years in digital; we are now considering what&rsquo;s next. How can we use our skills and experience in work that gives us joy?</p>
<p>Interface design is commoditised, creating pixel perfect prototypes; it&rsquo;s not the space we want to play in.</p>
<p>We do deep thinking, breaking apart problems and putting together solutions. My friend Tom Coates describes it as finding the nugget of truth that the rest of the model hangs off.</p>
<p>I am introducing the concept of Elder for women in Design; someone brings a depth of experience and wisdom to a role.</p>
<p>Elders don&rsquo;t have to be a Head or Director, they are Certain of their value and place; Grown and grounded in their skills and experience, and a Model by the way they behave, speak and write.</p>
<p>Once we know who and what we offer, we can then find those opportunities.</p>
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<h2>What&rsquo;s going to be the biggest challenge in your particular industry over the next 12 months?</h2>
<p>The biggest challenge for women in digital is learning how to blend all aspects of your life into the work you do. We need to find the right blend that gives us financial stability, life with our families, and joy in work.</p>
<p>With the ongoing instability of COVID pandemic changing the way we work, the next 12 months will be stressful. Women need to find their stable base for their lives, learning how to flex with working from home and the rest of life.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not about being a superwoman, but finding what new normal feels like and working with it. We have moved from pandemic crisis mode into living with the pandemic; therefore we need change our lives in response to it.</p>
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Futureheads Five Stories – Margaret Hanley

<p>Mark McDermott is the CEO of ScreenCloud, a global digital signage platform helping over 8,500 businesses communicate meaningful content using screens.</p>
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<p>He is also the co-founder of Codegent, an independent digital product studio based in London, UK and Bangkok, Thailand.</p>
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<p>Mark spoke to Futureheads as part of our FFS series, a regular interview series where business and industry leaders share their insights and personal experience. Other articles in the series can be found here.</p>
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<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Tell us about the impact that Covid-19 and the lockdown measures have had on your business?</span></h2>
<p>The world has changed and it&rsquo;s unlikely it will be the same again. It&rsquo;s been tough seeing some of our smaller customers who have been with us since we started ScreenCloud being so badly affected.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the demand for workforce communication tools that help separate what&rsquo;s important from the noise is more important than ever, and we&rsquo;ve pivoted to bring features like &ldquo;Company TV at home&rdquo; quickly to our customers, which have been very well received.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">How have you adapted your operational and hiring practices?</span></h2>
<p>Operationally we&rsquo;ve always worked at least partly remotely, but we have put new initiatives in place to help everyone feel more connected like regular All Hands sessions, &ldquo;ScreenCloud Radio&rdquo; and virtual fitness classes.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">What are your top tips for successfully managing a remote recruitment process?</span></h2>
<p>We&rsquo;ve not been recruiting during this period so I don&rsquo;t have much to add here, but it&rsquo;s interesting to read about the challenges and solutions that others have experienced.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Has this crisis made you look at your business differently or consider changes moving forwards?</span></h2>
<p>It&rsquo;s actually helped to clarify our mission more, around helping workforces to communicate better to their employees using tools that curate and collect what&rsquo;s important, rather than just adding to the noise.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">What advice would you give to anyone in a similar position to you at the moment?</span></h2>
<p>Clear your mind. Do what you need to do. If you think &ldquo;what would happen if I fail?&rdquo; and you&nbsp;plant that seed in your mind, then you WILL fail. It&rsquo;s time to go back to basics.&nbsp;People don&rsquo;t want &lsquo;complicated&rsquo; in tough times, they want&nbsp;simple and relatable and a narrative that fits. If the focus of your narrative in boom time is about innovation and the future, reframe it for now;&nbsp;what innovation that you&rsquo;ve done to date is useful for today? You have to be instantly relevant.</p>
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Rohan Maheswaran

<p>As Co-MD, Rohan ensures the client experience is best-in-class and coaches customers and internal teams on building and executing successful recruitment and growth strategies.</p>
<p>Rohan is an industry high performer with a deep understanding of technology, and how the product life cycle and the individuals who contribute to it, impact a company&rsquo;s reach. His track record and building of genuine, trusted relationships enables him to advise on the right solutions without compromising the values.</p>
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