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We are really excited to announce start of the new Conchango.com is now live for the world to see! Go check it out for yourself and if you want to join our team then check out our latest vacancies (and my skydive). Well done team!!  

I carried out a recruitment survey between September and December 2007 and here is the article that details the results:Research released today by digital media specialists Conchango reveals that salary is not the main deciding factor for people when looking for a new job. A nationwide survey showed that having the opportunity to work on ...

On 29th January Sam and I attended the Chinwag Live: Skills Emergency event in Soho. It was an interesting event and for those of you who know me you will not be surprised that I had to have a my say.  If you would like to hear what went on check out the podcast. The main point I was making (about an hour into the podcast) was yes we all ...

Sorry for the delay in blogging but it has been very busy in the recruitment team (100+ new recruits so far this year and counting, who says you need recruitment agencies....).  In the last month I have been at Tech Ed in Barcelona and the Scrum Gathering in London.  Both were excellent events and included presentations from members of ...

Last Friday 20th July saw Conchango host its half yearly update at the Barbican.  The whole Conchango team gathered at the London Bridge office.  It started as one of our normal 6 weekly community days which was full of knowledge sharing, project updates, brainstorming, champagne...  Then after lunch, and a flood in the office due ...

We have 2 big recruitment events in the next 2 weeks which I thought I would let you know about: Thursday 28th June we are at the Usability Professionals' Association Careers event which this year is being held at LBi, it starts at 6:30 and will give you the chance to find out more about the work we do in Usability and to meet some of ...

Just thought I would let you know what the Conchango Recruitment Team have been up to and what we are currently working on. Since January we have made 60 offers across our 3 teams (Technical Consulting, Business Consulting and Interactive Media)!  Yes we have been busy.  We do ALL our permanent recruitment directly, so no ...

Since I joined last July we have been heavily (and very sucessfully without agencies) directly recruiting for Business, Technical and Interactive Media Consultants.  To keep up with our internal expansion and continuous client wins we are now also increasing the size of our internal teams. We are looking for:an Agile ...

This year we are a platinum sponser of the Retail Week Conference which is a giant event for UK retailing held on 28th February and 1st March 2007. The conference takes place in advance of the Retail Week Awards Ceremony and is the biggest event in our Retail Diary!  Not only are we sponsoring the event but Mike Altendorf (Managing Director) ...

On the 5th / 6th March I shall be attending the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference in Gwent.  Conchango are one of the 4 sponsers of the event.  We will be running a number of tutorials:Colin Bird (CTO) and James Dawson (Platform Architect) - Scaling Agile Teams.James Saull (Lead Architect) - The REAL business Case for ...