Due to the recent Impact’s rapid success, several vacancies have arisen for highly skilled degree educated recruitment consultants from technical recruitment background to join our team. We will consider trainee recruitment consultants, senior recruitment consultants or principal recruitment consultants that are looking for a challenge and have proven ability delivering strong customer focused solutions in a proactive environment, please contact us to discuss further.

According to CWJobs the top 5 skills for Software Developers by demand (for both permanent and contract positions) within the UK are: SQL, C, Java, C# and ASP. The trend of demand for Software Developers has been steadily growing within the past two years and is expected to continue.

2007 has started with an increased demand for talented IT professionals, with job posts growing by 5% for permanent positions, compared to the end of 2006. Which, according to CW jobs, is the biggest quarterly increase seen for over 5 years as figures raised from 117,127 jobs to 122,987. Contract recruitment was faced with the number of jobs advertised down by 0.4%. This was mainly in support areas. The enlarged demand, mainly in the South East and Thames Valley, has meant that there has been an increase in IT salaries, with a survey by CV Screen stating that the average advertised salary for an IT professional is £31,446.25. Staff at Entry level of the IT Profession have enjoyed a yearly increase of salary during their starting years, with figures from 2005 showing they received increases in average earnings of 6.1% and in average salaries of 6.3%. This is in addition to Company Benefits.

League of Friends of Reading Hospitals – Impact have again this year, continued their support for this local charity by advertising, donating and attending local events.

Stafford Carrington, MD of Impact, appeared on the BBC hit show Beat the Boss, the programme included an interesting look into a day at Impact and you also got to meet some of the team. In the programme Stafford joined forces with two other business people from the aerospace and design industries. The team of bosses ("Big Shots") were competing against a team of children ("Bright Sparks") to invent the best new product for the children market and given an initial brief. Their task was to create a brand new football kit which improved their skill. At the end, a panel of children voted on which product was the best. For the first time in a series The Big Shots won by a landslide 18 -7 votes and Stafford’s team managed to achieve what a number of high profile business people such as Duncan Valentine had fallen short. All the proceeds from Stafford taking part in the show were donated to Comic Relief and a good time was had by all.

Congratulations Lee Peters for completing the London Marathon and raising a lot of money for charity, Lee juggled his work in software development with a grueling training regime and came out on top. Well done.

April sees Impact joining onto a number of Preferred Supplier Lists – Impact secured and renewed a record number of preferred supply statuses during March. Our Business Development Manager put this down to continued success with our clients and building outstanding business relations.

April saw the further expansion of the Impact team in 3 key business areas, with Teresa Pepper heading the Sales team; she has extensive channel sales experience and is a experienced recruiter with a proven background of achievement. Sahera has joined our GIS/GPS field, she has over 10 years experience in the technical geographical field and is an exciting addition to that flourishing team. Roshini Dominic has joined on our graduate programme and after achieving excellent academic success including a computer science degree she is a welcome addition.

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