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In this post, Jessica, Robert and Thao, software engineers on our Learner Experience team, share their experiences with mob programming.
The best courses for a career change - We have a look at how you can go about changing your career, and take a dive into some of the best courses you can take if you’re looking for a career change.
Like many product teams now working remotely, we have found ourselves having to adapt to different ways of working. With flexible hours, Zoom fatigue and the technical issues of working from home, it can be hard to find the time to come together as a team and workshop on a problem. In this blog post, Louis Bennett, a product designer at FutureLearn, explains how we’ve been running asynchronous workshops.
In this blog post, Jamie Cobbett, one of our Technical Leads, talks about a technique to make changes to very large database tables whilst minimising downtime.
Insights published in our Future of Learning global report highlight how many people now expect to make multiple career changes, a move away from the ‘job for life’ and spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over a fifth (21%) of working adults in the UK report that they do not expect to be working in the same industry in 2030, a feeling shared by a quarter of those in Australia and one fifth of those in America, suggesting that the ‘no more jobs for life’ phrase might need an update to ‘no more industry for life.’
A cover letter helps to support your CV, resume or job application, adding further context to your skills and experience. But how do you write a cover letter? And what should it include? We take a look at some of the ins and outs of cover letters and how to write yours.
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In this first Meet The UX Research & Design Team blog post we asked our team what got them into UX research & design and their different journeys in the industry.
In recent years organisations have worked hard to close the gender opportunities gap but the pandemic has set this vital work back substantially. Catalina Schveninger, Chief People Officer at FutureLearn, argues we should be looking to learning as a tool to help women thrive once again.
The business landscape is changing. COVID-19 pandemic aside, attitudes towards ‘traditional’ ways of doing business are changing. What’s more, there’s evidence to suggest that women are playing a large role in shaping this future of business. We take a look at the history that has created the current landscape, and what we can expect to see in the future.
