Why you should be recruiting ALL the time

Written by Glenn Beauchamp Managing Director | Principal IT/ICT Executive Recruiter Effective recruiting is a proactive process that’s ongoing, running 24/7, 365 days a year. If you’re genuinely passionate about hiring the right people in a growing, global knowledge economy, you need to keep hiring for the future top of mind. As an effective, and … Read more

3 Qualities that make IT & Digital Professionals hireable

Written by Robbie Nolan, Senior ICT Recruitment Consultant Hiring IT or Digital professionals? Hire for passion, potential and personality. Passion I believe the best indicator of future performance is passion. People who are passionate about what they do go the extra mile in a number of ways. Take troubleshooting for example. I consistently come across … Read more

The Internet Of Things

Written by Jason Crooks – Associate Recruitment Consultant You’ve probably heard the buzz words – “ The Internet of Things” but have you been sitting there thinking, what does it actually mean?   I’m going to go back to my childhood days (sorry if this makes you feel a bit old) but, there was a … Read more

Getting in front of hiring managers

Written by Robbie Nolan, Senior ICT Recruitment Consultant People hire people. People do not hire emails, PDFs, Word documents or online portfolios. If you want to get noticed by hiring managers, get to know them and them to know you. Here’s how… Personal Branding. Have a solid LinkedIn profile with written references so that if … Read more

11 Impossible Tech Interview Questions You Don’t Want To Be Asked

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_size=”18″ line_height=”36px” el_class=”text-light”]You may purchase phone plans with more than enough data to cover things like casual web surfing and streaming the occasional song. But you may not realize that browsing Facebook could be a big hit against your data plan too. According to Cisco’s online VNI Services Gauge Tool, one hour of browsing … Read more

How a tweet turned Uber’s first hire into a millionaire

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_size=”18″ line_height=”36px” el_class=”text-light”]You may purchase phone plans with more than enough data to cover things like casual web surfing and streaming the occasional song. But you may not realize that browsing Facebook could be a big hit against your data plan too.

According to Cisco’s online VNI Services Gauge Tool, one hour of browsing through social media can use up 90 megabytes, which is more than twice the amount of data that streaming music uses in the standard “normal” quality per hour..[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]It means that if you spend an hour a day on social media over a cellular network, you could be using 2.7 GB of data a month. Even half an hour of daily social media browsing could consumer 1.35 GB.

A lot of that usage is likely due to the auto-play video Facebook recently added to its app. The videos appear at different rates for each user based on a variety of factors in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm. Twitter is also said to have a similar feature coming to its feed soon.

You can disable the auto-play option for newsfeed videos when you’re on a cellular network by going in to the Facebook app and tapping the options button (the three horizontal lines on top of each other) found on the bottom right for the iOS version, and towards the top right for the Android version. Then tap Account Settings > Videos and Photos > Auto-play > disable Smart Auto-play > and tap Use Wi-Fi Only.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”160″ img_size=”full” img_link_large=”yes” hover_effect=”img_zoom_effect” el_class=”prettyPhoto”][vc_custom_heading text=”Music and Video Streaming” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:24|text_align:left|color:%23333333|line_height:36px” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:600%20bold%20regular%3A600%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Streaming music at the normal, average stream quality for an hour will use up 43 megabytes of your data plan per hour. It may seem insignificant, but it equates to about 1.3 GB of your plan per month if you stream music every day for an hour over your carrier’s cell network. Some streaming services stream music at a lower 64 kbps, which uses up less data.

And if you prefer to stream music in higher quality (at 320 kbps) when you’re not connected to a WiFi network, you’re looking at 144 megabytes per hour. That’s 4.32 GB per month if you stream high quality music every day for an hour over a cellular network.

You may purchase phone plans with more than enough data to cover things like casual web surfing and streaming the occasional song.

If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?

But you may not realize that browsing Facebook could be a big hit against your data plan too.

According to Cisco’s online VNI Services Gauge Tool, one hour of browsing through social media can use up 90 megabytes, which is more than twice the amount of data that streaming music uses in the standard “normal” quality per hour.

It means that if you spend an hour a day on social media over a cellular network, you could be using 2.7 GB of data a month. Even half an hour of daily social media browsing could consumer 1.35 GB.

A lot of that usage is likely due to the auto-play video Facebook recently added to its app. The videos appear at different rates for each user based on a variety of factors in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm. Twitter is also said to have a similar feature coming to its feed soon.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Looking for a new job? Make the human connection!

Written by Robbie Nolan, Senior ICT Recruitment Consultant     In many formal, company-run hiring processes, the human is removed. Candidates are asked to put their case forward in digital format by applying online with a digital document or sending a digital document over a electronic mail. The candidate’s application sits in a inbox such … Read more

Beacham Group Recruits the ICT Digital Sales Specialists of tomorrow

Written by Glenn Beauchamp Managing Director | Principal IT/ICT Executive Recruiter ICT Sales roles in Western Australia are forecast to increase 8.2% in the next 5 years according to a report by the Australian Computer Society and Deloitte Access Economics. The highest of all IT occupations. If you’re an “A-Player”, either currently in sales or … Read more

One+ 2 – The 2016 Flagship Killer

Written by Jason Crooks – Associate Recruitment Consultant   Mobile phones – The majority of the world has one now days with the latests statistics saying that the world has about 6 billion active cell phone subscribers. There is a great, somewhat healthy debate of who’s phone is better, between Apple and Samsung who focus … Read more

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