Is Honesty the best policy? Yes! To coin a phrase – ‘Honesty is a virtue’ is true in every life situation. Following on from our tips for Candidates last week, I thought it would be good to reiterate the importance of being honest not only during your interview, but from the very beginning of your […]
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10 Fun Facts about Pi for National Pi Day!
March 14th is National Pi Day! That’s Pi not Pie. Just before you start thinking ‘brilliant, I have the perfect excuse to eat that slice of pie’, it’s not that type of Pie its a celebration of the most important number in ‘Maths’. (But you can of course, use it as an excuse to eat […]
16 Questions you can ask at the end of an interview.
Do you have any questions? Yes, the answer is always YES! With our recent tip for candidates to always prepare questions for your interview, I mentioned one or two questions that you can ask the interviewer, as well as advising how imperative it is that you always prepare at least 2 questions that you can […]
Is a Hybrid Engineer the new Network Engineer?
Have you heard the term Hybrid Engineer? With the evolution of Networking and the skills that are now being recruited for, it’s no secret that the Network Engineer role would have to and has evolved. Not just being highly skilled with all things related with the traditional network, but an understanding of DevOps and having […]
Hamilton Barnes at Cisco Live Barcelona 2019
The Networking Event of the year took place this year in Barcelona and as a Recruitment Consultancy specialising in this niche space, we had to be there. Alas, not all of the HB team could attend this fantastic event, so we sent George, James and Chris over to Cisco Live Barcelona along with thousands more […]
Tips and Advice for the first time visitor to Cisco Live
If you’ve been to a Cisco Live event before, then you will have an expectation of how your time will go. However, what if you’ve never been before and are venturing over to Barcelona during the week of January 28th – February 1st, for your first ever Cisco Live event and are unsure what you […]
10 Achievable ‘Work’ New Year Resolutions
When talking to people about New Year Resolutions, so many people I speak to will either say ‘I don’t believe in New Year resolutions, if I want to change something about myself, improve, give something up or take something up, I’ll do it when I want, not because its’s January’. Other people will answer with […]
Which Cloud certifications should I take?
Here at Hamilton Barnes, we are not only interested in the Networking Professionals who are looking for new positions today, but we arealso interested in the Networking Professionals of tomorrow. We have beenvisiting universities around the UK advising the future graduates on how to goabout finding their first jobs in the world of Networking. During […]
The Future of Unified Communications
When looking at the history of network architecture, video and voice were separate services. With them both becoming part of the network architecture, the landscape of how we communicate business to business, employee to employee was radically changed. We now engage daily using these extremely comprehensive communication systems, internally and externally using, voice, video, […]
How to be an Ethical Hacker.
Do you want to be an ‘Ethical Hacker’? What certifications do you need, what jobs are available and how much is the salary? A few years back, I remember working with a client who worked in the Networking Security space, who specifically worked with high-security military defence systems. They had a requirement for what they […]