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The labor market is changing faster and faster due to new programming languages, robotization, big data, and artificial intelligence. Due to technological developments that follow each other at a rapid pace, the learning and development of employees are more important than ever. Are you an innovative SME (MKB) and do you have the ambition to stimulate the lifelong learning and development of the employees within your organization? Then you can apply for a subsidy of up to € 24,999 for carrying out a learning and development process!

Does your new-year resolution include providing your teams with amazing new colleagues? To provide you with shining STAR examples, I have reached out to a few in my network. And behold! Without a university degree, they have been able to pursue new careers in tech and prove to be remarkable employees‍!

How can you be sure to hire the best possible candidate for the position?‍ The answer is simple: Hire on culture fit and teach the tech skills. This way, not only do you close the skill gap, you also get to build a cohesive and united group that is going to be in sync.

It is almost Christmas time, and most of us are packing suitcases to spend time with our loved ones and chase the last gifts shopping. And although the Christmas star is shining, there is a different STAR I would like to bring to your attention before the end of this, for many of us, a turbulent year 2022.

In today's post-covid job market situation, it is crucial to hire a good fit; someone who loves to work for your company, is passionate about your product or service, has talent and is a perfect culture match. Now imagine that you find this perfect person but soon find out that they miss the required degree.

Why should you invest in your employee's education and training? Better performance and higher retention are two big reasons, but what about employee engagement? Investing in your team means investing in your company. With each new certificate they get, the in-house knowledge grows; The better they are at their jobs, the more business for you!

Over the past eight years, we helped some 600 people change their positions to a career in software development. In the early days, I often found myself on the phone battling scepticism; we had to work hard to convince employers to hire the junior developers we educated, but as we progressed, it became normal to hire junior developers, and we got more and more competitors. Together with their employers, we helped make big waves in the labour market together: in the past decade, the number of people who work in IT almost doubled. That is nice, but with 5 out of 6 IT vacancies unfulfilled, there is still a lot of work to do, and Techmongers is here to take it a step further and help organisations grow their tech teams: in numbers, skills, and knowledge.