UK’s Tech City Ready To Open Doors For Fourth Annual Job Fair

14 January 2013

While innovation happens all over the UK, the Tech City project in the East End of London brings together many of the elements needed for a successful ecosystem, including funding, a start-up culture, and a concentration of people who can help each other. Next month the fourth jobs fair at Tech City, Silicon Milkroundabout, will take place, hoping to pair up potential recruits with the start-ups and technology companies in the area.

The event has some curation around it; the companies involved are focusing on ‘product’ and ‘development’ hires this time round, so people registering from outside those areas will not be able to attend.

That does mean the focus on the event is going to be helpful to the 130 companies attending (including Moo.com, SongKick, and Moshi Monsters), who between them have 800 vacancies to be potentially filled from the two day event.

Pete Smith, co-founder of Songkick and one of the driving forces behind this recruitment event is convinced that smart recruiting is one of the keys to growth, “Hiring great people is the only way a start-up can succeed and get big. Yet one of the biggest challenges UK start-ups face is getting the most talented people to think about working for a start-up, rather than take the traditional route in a larger company.”