Clean up your online act!

Social media has certainly become a way of life now. Over the past three to five years you would be hard pushed to meet anyone who doesn't have a profile on at least one of the popular online platforms. Even my mum is on Facebook and my…

Pizza, US Roadtrips and Geeking out on technology = Freedom Pizza Founder & CEO, Ian Ohan

Week 2 of 52 weeks of inspiration and SwissGulf Partners were lucky enough to catch up with Freedom Pizza CEO, Ian Ohan. We chatted about the incredible success of Freedom Pizza and Ian's outlook on Entrepreneurship In 2009 you were head…

Why top technology talent will choose you & not your competition

The tech skills gap is now the largest since 2008 according the Wall Street Journal. Given the expected explosion of Ecommerce and Technology in the Middle East over the coming years this gap is only going to widen. With the global…

Guide to Interviewing Developers

Interviews are a crucial part in the hiring process. An interview experience can make or break a candidate’s decision to take a role, as well as form an opinion of your employer brand. All candidates deserve a positive interview experience…

Should you accept a counteroffer?

You’ve made the decision to move on to pastures new. Applied for positions, interviewed and received an offer. Congratulations! You may or may not have considered that your manager could add a counteroffer into the equation. What should…

So you want to code…

The first thing you should understand is that it is not going to be easy. You are learning new languages after all. There is a significant amount of technical jargon that is defined in terms of other unfamiliar bits of more technical jargon.…

The Process Revolutionising Business in the Middle East

The most recent approach changing businesses in the Middle East is something that’s been in the works at various business schools (little known names like Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, amongst others!) for a little while now, and it’s called…

How technology is killing meat (and what we can do about it)

Working in tech means you get used to its capabilities to disrupt whole industries, and the trillion-dollar meat is no different. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made in favour of the meat-industry requiring this kind of disruption,…