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The Demand for Data Talent in NI and The Skills Companies are Looking For

The demand for data professionals in Northern Ireland has surged in recent years, with companies across various industries investing heavily in data-driven decision-making. As businesses look to ha...

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Tech for the Future!

​We love (and are terrified of) "Pepper the Robot". 🤖Jennifer Curran and Chris Haddock had a fantastic time yesterday evening speaking with various bright students at South West College Dungannon C...

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Fundamentals of GIT

​🔨Carpenters use hammers 🔧Mechanics use spanners 💻Developers use GIT​Have you noticed that Git is so integral to working with code that people hardly ever include it in their tech stack or on their...

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VANRATH Headline Sponsors of the Women in Tech Awards 2023

An incredible night as headline sponsors of the Women in Tech Awards 2023!VANRATH had an absolute blast sponsoring the Women in Tech Awards on 25th May and celebrating all the local women making a ...

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Transforming Tech: Addressing the Need for a more Digitally Accessible Society

Adela Buliman, Accessibility QA Lead and Customer Success Manager at Inclusion and Accessibility Labs shares her thoughtsIn Adela Buliman’s role she ensures that all digital accessibility audits ...

Rising in Tech: How Studying Tech Changed One Student's Life
Rising in Tech: How Studying Tech Changed One Student's Life

Yuan Zhang, second year Computer Science student at Ulster University shares how returning to university to study tech changed his lifeChair at the UU Computing Society, AWS Cloud Captain, Googl...

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Augmenting roles with AI: The future of working with ChatGPT, Midjourney and more

​Matt Flenley, Head of Marketing at Datactics explains how ChatGPT can affect the future workforce – and how you can use it to your advantage!Having worked in the award-winning company Datactics...

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Meet the IT Team: Michael Corrigan

​Get to know Michael Corrigan our Senior IT Recruitment Consultant specialising in C# and .NetToday, we sat down with our Senior IT Recruitment Consultant Michael Corrigan so you can find out mor...

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Free Online IT Courses To Help You Upskill In Your Career

​Work in tech and want to upskill in 2023? Here’s how you can at home!After a recent poll on whether you want to learn a new skill this year, we found that majority of people are ready to upskill...

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Is Serverless The Future? Time to catch up!

​Kris Jones, Director of Engineering at Nisos shares how going serverless is the way forward!Kris leads the Engineering team at Nisos and has over 10 years of industry experience and 5 years in t...

CES 2023: The Latest Tech Gadgets
CES 2023: New Tech Gadgets You Need To See

​🚀 VANRATH reveals fascinating new tech devices from CES 2023 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up on Sunday featuring some of the most futuristic and fascinating upcoming technology t...

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How to become a QA Engineer

​A Quality Assurance Engineer is an IT professional whose activities are aimed at improving the software development process. A QA Engineer aims to detect errors and prevent defects from occurring ...

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​How to become a .NET Developer

​How to become a .NET Developer.NET is an open-source software development platform that was introduced by Microsoft in 2002 to be used for creating applications on Windows only. However, as time p...

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Women in Tech Conference - Friday 25 February

​“There is not just a place for you and your story in tech, but value all that you bring to the table.” – Lindsay Rootare A fantastic day at the Women in Business NI Tech conference at Titanic Belf...

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How to become a Java Developer

​Did you know a small team called ‘The Green Team’ initially conceptualised Java in the early 1990s? Fast forward to today and Java is one of the most in-demand and popular programming languages in...

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In Partnership with Ulster Unversity - VANRATH prizes encourage excellence in tech careers in Northern Ireland

As the world becomes increasingly technology dependent, the range of businesses emerging in the STEM sector will grow significantly. This is something we strongly believe in and we continue to inve...

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Technology Trends to Watch in 2022

​For businesses and individuals, the arguably most important lesson of the last two years has been that transformative change isn’t as challenging to implement as some might have once thought.Tech ...

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Computer Space and beyond

​Source: BBC​​What is now a multi-billion pound industry started out as a humble arcade machine created by a group of college students in 1971.Before then, playing video games had been a geeky past...

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5 Ways to get over your PROGRAMMER IMPOSTER SYNDROME

Imposter syndrome: When you think you’re unqualified for the work you doIf you answer YES to any of the following, you need to read this blog:Do you ever get frustrated with yourself for making sim...

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But isn't it expensive and complicated to hire IT contractors?

There is a common misconception in the market that perceives IT Contractors as a very expensive and more complicated hire than a permanent employee, but this is not the case!Do you want a great com...