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Creating Harmony through Visual Identity & UX Design
Exploring the intricacies between brand awareness and successful product outcome.Andrea Amato in conversation with Luigi Muscat FillettiVisual con...
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Castille Quarterly Newsletter | October 2021
The fourth edition of the Castille Quarterly Newsletter showcases the many talents of our esteemed Castillians and their personal insights across ...
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Join our Talent Acquisition Team at Castille
As part of our growth plans, we at Castille are looking to expand our Talent Acquisition Advisory Team with Tech and Finance consultants. The TAA...
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The Impact on Businesses after Covid-19
Practical guidance for organisational and employee development.Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the working world as we know it altogether. With th...
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Using AI to Benefit Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity has been a growing concern exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Cybercriminals have implemented novel strategies to phish users into...
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Banking on AI to Complete Financial Services
Whilst a large sum of AI goes unregulated, banks can no longer shy away from popular technology.In the past, financial services were somewhat hesit...
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Overcoming the Challenges to Remote Work
Practical guidance for organisations planning to initiate a new model of business.The work model that favoured an office environment over more flex...
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The Future of Work Collaborates with AI
As we continue to enjoy the many use cases presented by AI technologies, our reliance has spread among diverse industries in a bid to explore its c...
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Castillians Siddhart & Avishek take on WebCup 2021
A tournament that invites innovation and technology to combine into creative entrepreneurship. Originally created in 2009, the WebCup Association h...
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Cyberpsychology: A New Frontier for Technology & Psychology
As we commemorate world mental health day occurring on October 10th this year, we consider the novel therapeutic approaches uncovered by empirical ...
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Challenges in AI: Interpreting Human Emotion
Can technology mimic human behaviour we haven’t yet accurately grasped?As a result of the pandemic, we’ve grown further dependent on technologies t...
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The Relationship Between Human Computer Interaction and UX Design
Human computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design of technology and how it interacts with humans (users). Wh...
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Castille Salary Benchmark: September 2021
The Castille Salary Benchmark is widely recognised as the industry standard in Salary data for Financial, Legal, Technology, and Executive jobs i...
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What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning has populated the technological sphere and within AI communities as it continues to grow in importance in managing high volumes of...
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Applying Python for Great Software Development
Why the versatile programming language remains a favourite among tech communities. Python is inarguably still a relevant and important open-source ...
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How to Approach Hybrid Work for Productivity
Three cheers for the new model of work, inspired by remote jobs in Malta and beyond. Hybrid models of work are quickly becoming the norm, with copi...
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All About Green Software Engineering
An overlooked sustainability effort reclaims its importance in combatting the climate crisis. In global sustainability efforts, we turn and depend ...
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Exploring the Meaning of Work-life Wellness
Previously known as work-life balance, work-life wellness is a novel term used to describe a positive approach toward our work and home lives.Joi...
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Why your Career Begins with an Internship
How to make the most out of novel job opportunities.Internships are often roles granted to individuals fresh out of their studies and/or those read...
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What is Technostress?
Exploring and strategising against the darker side of technology.With a world revolving around technological software and equipment, we’re used to ...
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Data-driven Recruitment: A Step Towards Smart Hiring
Data is the new oil, analytics is the refinery, and intelligence is the gasoline which drives growth.—Tiffani BovaIn the late 20th century, the a...
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All Eyes on Green Technologies
The future of work involves new ways in how we perceive remote jobs and sustainability.If there’s one topic we’ve met face to face with in the past...
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Your Data Privacy Checklist
As we learned in a recent article highlighting our data privacy rights, we know it is especially important as we consume more services and product...
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Why Businesses Cannot Sleep on User Experience
The digital revolution necessitates human connection between users and company goals.Alongside rapidly advancing technologies arrives user experien...
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A Software Developer’s Remote Best Practices
Software developers are at the forefront of digitisation, amending current technologies to suit an era that favours the latest tech inventions. As...
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How to Better Prepare for a Job Interview
An often-overlooked hiring process that still determines your first impression to employers.We’d recently written an editorial highlighting pointe...
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Why Data Privacy is More Important Than Ever
What is Data Privacy?It can be difficult to understand what data privacy is in the digital world and its importance. Let’s imagine that in our da...
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How to Strengthen Inclusivity in Technology
Common discrepancies in technology today are not sustainable for the present workforce.When we envisage a room full of innovators in technology, a...
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Developing Human Capital at Home
What do we know about remote employee development and skills training?Employee development and the growing importance of human capital remains an ...
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Technology & the Future of Digital Wellbeing
Navigating our way around emerging technologies and how they impact us.When we hear the term ‘digital wellbeing’, several topics surface to mind—i...
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Shaping the Future of User Experience with AI
Every week, the Castille Product team meet to discuss the ongoing development of a new Digital platform. The platform follows a user’s career jour...
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A CFO’s Guide in Supporting Climate Change
Institutions across the globe are in constant discussions with each other surrounding sustainability efforts that are not only implemented from a p...
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Financial Services & Digitalisation
How does AI support accountant jobs in Malta and abroad?Accountancy and financial services have come a long way from its bookkeeping and payroll in...
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E-Learning and the Future of Professional Development
Employees are ready to learn and close a widespread digital skills divide.Many of today’s workers are situated at home, constructing workstations ...
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How to Succeed in an Evolving Gig Economy
Changing how we perceive freelance workers in the 21st century.The gig economy strives on freelance workers who complete odd ‘gigs’ from time to t...
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The Difference Between Executive Search & Recruitment
Nowadays, we are growing more accustomed to specialist recruitment.Although the terms executive search and recruitment are often used interchangea...
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How to Invest in Employer Branding
It’s time to grow your business by positively influencing your company reputation.Every organisation upholds a reputation that first stirs interna...
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The Future of Human Resource Management
Notes for the forerunners of professionals keeping it all together.Human resources (HR) are a mainstay department for most organisations when it co...
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The Leader’s Guide to Onboarding Remote Workers
Laying out the best practices for integrating your remote employees with your company culture.The onboarding process can be complex, even in organ...
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How to Be More Productive at Work
Your guide to sustain daily motivations for in-office and remote jobs.With most organisational research, a standalone feature that connects the do...
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Pocket CV: Your Simple Guide to Writing a Stellar CV
Career prospects come and go, but your CV remains the most important document to propel you to your dream job. Whether you're looking for your nex...
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What’s the Latest in Technology?
The pandemic sheds light on what is favoured and necessary to support a current remote workforce.There is no doubt that technology has spearheaded ...
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The Novel Meaning Job Hopping Has Today
Career risk-takers are becoming more frequent, forcing a different perspective on job prospects.The recent Covid-19 pandemic urged many individuals...
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Becoming a Skilled Communicator
Being an effective communicator is an invaluable skill applicable to all industries to establish positive relationships with colleagues, managers, ...
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Preventing Burnout in the Workplace
Looking toward a brighter career without the added chronic stress.Our daily jobs can be one of our greatest sources of stress, at times to an unhe...
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Has Remote Work Changed the Scope of Flexibility Forever?
Assessing the role flexibility has on organisational culture today.Flexible work initiatives have supported organisational strategies a long time b...
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Why your Workplace can Benefit from More Empathy
Leading compassion by example.Empathy, commonly described as walking in someone else’s shoes (even in the academic literature), is used to refer to...
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When it’s Time for a New Career
How to leave your current role with grace and sever ties with a job that no longer suits you.The recent Covid-19 pandemic has reimagined novel mean...
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Mental Health and Returning to Work after Covid-19
Supporting a workforce that has been ridden with drastic lifestyle changes.The widespread shock generated by the Covid-19 pandemic transformed jobs...
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Understanding Motivation in the Workplace
When work feels a little slow, we turn to research to up the pace.When hearing the term motivation, we mumble on about its meaning, how important ...
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All you Need to Know about Leadership Styles
A leader is someone who motivates, guides, and supports their teams on a daily basis. Leadership styles refer to how a leader achieves this; in oth...
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Improving your People Skills with Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EQ) unlike its cousin intelligence quotient (IQ) refers to one’s ability to recognise and understand emotions in themselves...
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Returning to the Workplace After Covid-19
Practical guidance to navigate one of our greatest challenges today. A few years ago, it was hard to envision a working world largely set around ho...
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How to Stand Out and Land your Next Job
Tips and tricks to get you going in your career development.In a competitive job market, you need the right combination of technical and soft skill...
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Tending to a Remote Workforce
As a new, hybrid model of work dominates organisational cultures worldwide, employers are faced with ensuring employees continue to grow in rapidly...
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Understanding Employee Engagement
A well-researched theory that often leaves little guidance for working professionals. Employee engagement encapsulates several factors that drive m...
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The Necessity in Upskilling a Remote Workforce
What it means to train employees in times of a pandemic.At the start of 2020, news portals were oversaturated with information surrounding the supp...
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Cultivating Meaning at Work with Job Crafting
Job crafting refers to an employee’s ability to redesign their job to better fulfil their skills and needs. In redesigning what could be perceived...
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Phishing, pharming, whaling? Common data attacks and how to prevent them
A cybersecurity quest to ensure you and your team are prepared to prevent potentially irreversible data breaches in your jobs in Malta and beyond.P...
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An expedition to Mauritius: How Castille extended its branches to a subtropical island
Mauritius boasts a rich history intertwined with cultural bounty. Located in the Indian Ocean, the nation bears similarities with Malta in their w...
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Constructing a Great Team in Project Management
How to put together a team that strives toward a common goal.Teamwork involves several individuals to complete a project, or a series of projects,...
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Castille Quarterly Newsletter | July 2021
In our third edition of the quarterly newsletter, we showcase current trends in Tech and Finance following numerous discussions held between our t...
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Join our Talent Acquisition Team at Castille
As we prepare the launch of our new digital platform, we at Castille are looking to expand our Talent Acquisition Advisory Team with Tech and Fina...
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Sudha Babajee’s Castillian Journey
On being a full-time performance consultant, mother, and succeeding with workplace motivation.From Recruitment Consultancy to Post Deployment Tal...
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Castille Digital: An Ecosystem for Tech and Finance Professionals Worldwide
Andrea Amato in conversation with Castille Brand Manager Chris Xuereb on Castille’s latest pillar.Castille Resources offers a myriad of services t...
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Sustainability Starts from Home...And at Work
Curating a workplace culture that prioritises sustainability and environmental awareness.As research continues to fight for climate change, organi...
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Supporting Digitisation in Finance
Financial services encompass money management, insurance, payments, and banking. Nowadays the sector is looking toward digitising many of its serv...
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One Castille: For Women, By Women
Six Castillians from across our pillars discuss what it’s like to work their roles, share challenges they’ve resiliently overcome, and offer words ...
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Castille Salary Benchmark: June 2021
The Castille Salary Benchmark is widely recognised as the industry standard in Salary data for Financial, Legal, Technology, and Executive jobs in...
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A Simple Explanation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
A seemingly complex technology, the cousin of AI has some convincing to do with hesitant leaders. What is RPA? RPA, like many emerging technologie...
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An Alliance with Nature: World Environment Day 2021
On June 5th every year, hundreds of countries unite for the UN’s climate change platform.Since 1974, the United Nations orchestrated a vehicle for...
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The Digitalised Job Economy
Exploring the impact of digitalisation and its global effects in the jobs market.The global economy is sifting through a digital transformation tha...
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The Remote Workplace Culture that Prioritises Employee Wellbeing
EditorialAs a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, today’s workers are situated at home, adopting the remote lifestyle. Initially a convenient measure...
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How Software Developers Can Better Prepare for Job Interviews
At the Human Capital team, we hold many interviews with applicants and have noticed particular commonalities that prevent them from securing a job ...
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A Simple Explanation of IoT
Technology is a broad term heavily pronounced in the media, but what does it mean in practice?Internet of things (or IoT) refers to the connectivi...
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The Top 6 Programming Languages in 2021
Looking to update your resume, or want to know which language to start with? Here’s our recommendations following software developer trends.Softwa...
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Remote Work in 2021: The Hybrid Model
The concept of remote work has populated the media for a while, but where does it leave us for a post-pandemic society? As the Covid-19 pandemic pr...
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Knowledge Matters - MFSA
In 2020 #mfsateam members from the different functions across the Authority were invited as guest speakers at over 200 Financial Services industry...
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What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
In computer science, AI refers to the mimicry of human intelligence exhibited by machines, robots, and computers. AI stems from a branch of compute...
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Earth Day 2021
Every year, millions gather to commemorate Earth Day in support of current environmental affairs. What is Earth Day? Earth Day is celebrated on t...
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MFSA STRATEGIC UPDATE 2021
The #MFSA is committed to preserving financial stability, market integrity, and the protection of investors and consumers. This is more than just ...
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Top Software Developer Trends for 2021
2020 was a year of disruption for many industries worldwide, leaving organisations the onus to prepare for different priorities in 2021. Despite a...
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Workplace Guidance: Are Self-efficacy and Success Related?
Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s belief in their ability to influence events in their lives (Bandura, 2010). Simply stated, if you believe y...
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Castille Quarterly Newsletter | March 2021
Following International Women's Day, in this issue of the Castille Quarterly Newsletter we celebrate our colleagues and their diverse talents. Cur...
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Is Blockchain Worth the Hype for Corporate Client Markets in 2020?
You've heard about Blockchain in the news before, but where does it stand in a global and Maltese context?The Origins of BlockchainBlockchain, th...
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Castille Salary Benchmark: January 2021
Have you heard about our Castille Salary Benchmark?The Castille Salary Benchmark is widely recognised as the industry standard in Salary data for ...
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Discover our HQ in the Heart of the Mediterranean
Castille Resources and MaltaCastille continues to extend its footprint, going from three country branches to a Malta Head Office and teams in 14 c...
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Get to know us! Mokhdan, Yudish, and Olivier
Our CastilliansAlongside our team based in Malta, our office in Mauritius presents an encouraging atmosphere in developing our talents. In leading...
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Java, .Net, and Project Management: Which Software Method is Right for You?
IntroductionThe professional network at Castille seeks a more in-depth focus into particular verticals alongside software development and trends. ...
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The 3 pillars of Castille: Labs, Digital, & Search
Who we areLabs, Digital, and Search are the three pillars which make up Castille Resources. Together, they offer a forward-thinking front to pursu...
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Get to know us! Nikki, Gilbert, and Matthew
Our CastilliansFor a long time, Castille solely presented itself as the professional network in tech and finance. Since its original platform, new...
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The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer: Soft skills
The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer is part of a series written by Joseph Glynn and Claire Cauchi, check out part one and ...
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Looking to pivot your career? Follow these rules...
If you feel like your career is stalling, you might want to consider pivoting.Career pivoting, the deliberate and methodological process through w...
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Compliance and the 'Whistleblower' Policy
Whistleblower: ‘a person who makes public disclosure of corruption or other wrongdoing’In my experience of investigating crime, I have encountered...
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The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer: Coding
The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer is part of a series written by Joseph Glynn and Claire Cauchi, check out part one and p...
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Castille Joins the WWF in Combatting the Climate Crisis
The world is changing — and so are we.We are looking toward greater and greener initiatives in 2021.We understand the climate is worsening at an un...
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Software Developer Q&A 2020 Catch-up
ReportRecent news has circulated the ubiquitous demand for software developers, but have yet to include a consultants take on the matter. What tre...
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Castille Quarterly Newsletter | December 2020
Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter! This issue introduces some of our Castillians and features current tech trends. Inside you will find a ...
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The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer: A good developer
The characteristics of a great Castillian software engineer is part of a series written by Joseph Glynn and Claire Cauchi, check out part two and ...
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The world of work: A new dawn in 2021?
In recent weeks we have seen a variety of industries such as Big Pharma, biotech firms, and universities rush to pronounce their break through COVI...