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Flower power

Last sum­mer, I searched high and low for a cac­tus with a pink flower that was­n’t fake. And by high and low I mean the local gar­den cen­tres, Ikea and Tesco.  I found only one. And this one had the tee­ni­est, tini­est bud with a dash of pink. But that bud was real. So I took […]

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At a time of eco­nom­ic uncer­tain­ty, tur­moil and appre­hen­sion in the UK, one sec­tor appears to be buck­ing the trend: Fin­Tech. The UK Fin­Tech indus­try is flour­ish­ing, attract­ing start-up fund­ing into the coun­try and mak­ing Britain an increas­ing­ly attrac­tive place for entre­pre­neurs, tal­ent and investors. How are the star play­ers plan­ning to keep UK FinTech

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Blog writing service Milton Keynes

What’s a Blog Writing Service Doing in Milton Keynes?

Blog writ­ing might con­jure up images of Bali beach­es, yoga retreats and nomad trav­els, but this blog writ­ing ser­vice is based in Mil­ton Keynes and here’s why.  One of the fastest grow­ing cities Mil­ton Keynes is one of the fastest grow­ing cities in the UK, with no inten­tion of stop­ping. More than 29,000 new homes are

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2018’s Most In-Demand Skills for Engineers – They’re Softer Than You Thin

Maths, sci­ence, design, tech­ni­cal… all hard skills reg­u­lar­ly asso­ci­at­ed with engi­neer­ing but at RTRS we’re see­ing soft skills play an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role in dis­tin­guish­ing top can­di­dates for the top engi­neer­ing posi­tions. The Insti­tute of Technology’s 2017 sur­vey found that 21% of engi­neer­ing prac­tices find exter­nal can­di­dates do not pos­sess the required non-tech­ni­­cal skills, whilst

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Six Telltale Signs You’re Ready for an Engineering Promotion

With 39% of busi­ness­es hav­ing increased their engi­neer­ing and tech­ni­cal work­force over the past three years and 51% expect­ing to do so in the next three years, the oppor­tu­ni­ty for career pro­gres­sion with­in engi­neer­ing is big­ger than ever. The big ques­tion is, are you ready for your next engi­neer­ing pro­mo­tion? At RTRS we have put

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Top Tips to Attracting Top Engineering Talent

With an annu­al demand for 124,000 engi­neers and tech­ni­cians, ver­sus an antic­i­pat­ed short­fall of between 37,000–59,000 grad­u­ates, attract­ing the top engi­neer­ing tal­ent is more dif­fi­cult than ever. At RTRS, we work hard to source only the best engi­neer­ing tal­ent out there, attract­ing them to your vacan­cy but are you doing every­thing that you can in

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