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From Generalist to Specialist… Why I Chose VIQU – Martyn Thorp
Before coming to VIQU, my previous role involved recruiting for smart meter engineers in the utilities sector. This was a natural fit for me as my first recruitment role because I used to be heavily involved in utilities during my sales days. This, coupled with the fact that I had over 10 years of management experience, led a close friend to suggesting that these skills were highly transferable for a career in recruitment.
I found my feet as a generalist recruiter, but I soon felt like I needed to get my teeth into a specialist subject. I knew this would be much harder, but having industry insight and the knowledge to be able to offer my candidates and clients a specialist level of consultancy highly appealed to me. When researching VIQU, I got the impression that the company was the right fit for me both in terms in culture and the fact that I would be working with successful and experienced specialist recruiters.
Since joining I've been proven right. The Southampton team have been so welcoming, and I've been given opportunities to train with experienced recruiters just like I was promised. It's a tough challenge going from a generalist to an infrastructure & cloud recruitment specialist, but it's fantastic to work for a company that's given me trust and autonomy to organise my diary from day 1.
"Since Martyn's first interview, I knew we had a determined and hard-working individual on our hands. I'm very proud of the approach Martyn has taken to becoming a specialist recruiter, not to mention the fact that he gained a client and closed his first interview on day 10 of working for VIQU! I'm excited to see how Martyn develops and builds relationships with his clients/ candidates in the coming months."


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In a new report, the American Hospital Association (AHA) states that centers must cut down on paperwork and other bureaucratic exercises that can cause health care costs to mount. The group suggests that hospitals convert many of these processes to an electronic format, particularly with regard to verification of benefits eligibility and other processes linked to faster reimbursement for care.
"It is estimated that the U.S. health care delivery system spends 15 to 32 percent of each health care dollar on the types of administrative costs that would be streamlined through the adoption of the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] transactions standards and operating rules processes," the report says.
Wider use of the HIPAA standards can support more information sharing between health plans and providers, a key benefit for organizations participating in emerging care models, such as payment bundling and accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to the AHA. Greater dialogue between providers and health plans also can help promote the sharing of meaningful data while simultaneously reducing the paperwork burden and promoting greater efficiency.
HIPAA required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop and implement a framework for electronic health care transactions, code sets, identifiers and other administrative aspects related to the delivery and coverage of health care services. Over 17 years, the field has developed a common set of standards for the submission of claims, eligibility and claim status inquiries, and other transactions, including the payment of premiums, eligibility and benefit verification, and electronic claims.
According to the AHA, the administrative simplification promoted by HIPAA:
· Reduces the paperwork burden for providers and patients
· Prepares the field for health reform changes in reimbursement by better integrating financial and clinical data
· Helps patients learn about their financial obligations up front
The report concludes: "Administrative simplification facilitates the smart use of information technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Achieving these goals will require cultural, operational and policy changes. It also offers opportunities to work collaboratively across the field to achieve mutual benefits for all stakeholders—providers, health plans, vendors, and patients."
Sources: AHA TrendWatch; January 2016; and FierceHealthFinance; January 28, 2016.

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Even in winter when snow covers most of the features of a chosen route, the safest method of fashioning running belays and belays is to find rock. Therefore, it is always worth carrying a range of rock gear, including a handful of pegs for iced cracks. Often, however, the climber will have to resort to the slightly less permanent substance of frozen water for his/her protection.
The range of states that frozen water occurs in requires a wide range of protection devices to make each piece as safe as possible.
Snow is best used for creating belays by the use of the T-axe method, but in slushy snow deadmen come into their own, although this will still be much poorer than a rock belay. The DMM Deadman has sufficient surface area to provide the best possible safety margin in such circumstances. It can also be used as a snow shovel. You can find more of these in our Avalanche Safety section.
Ice Screws
The "Screw in, screw out" form of ice screw are the most versatile of screws, and represent a significant step forward from the drive-in style. They are good for use in glacial ice and should be carried for the purposes of crevasse rescue. They are less damaging to the snowpack, and therefore wide gauge versions are the best type to use in poor quality ice and in snow (such as that found- if you're lucky- in South Wales). The ease and speed with which they can be placed is very good, as they require no hammering, have many cutting teeth, polished sides, sharp threads and long handles. If things get really thin you can try a DMM Bulldog, but screws are the most important method of protection for waterfall ice climbing.
We also have a range of racking and storage devices for your screws. See the Black Diamond Ice Clipper and Black Diamond Ice Screw Up (we like these, they're better than the name suggests!), Petzl Charlet Ice Flutes and Simond Rack. The Grivel Candela is pretty handy too.
Winter climbing pro is often less reliable than summer pro, and shock absorbing quickdraws (screamers) will play a very important role in protecting yourself. Check out the DMM Ripstop in our Slings and Extenders section. DMM also recommends the use of their Revolvers, as the rotating bearing in the top of the crab will reduce the impact force on your top runner in a fall.
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From the exciting, edge-of-your-seat world of stockbroking to the highly valued practice of auditing, the Finance and Accounting Services (Fasset) Sector has a career for every aspiring number cruncher. Just some of the many careers in the finance and accounting sector include accountancy, bookkeeping, debt collecting, tax practitioning and accounting technicians. There are so many opportunities available in the fields of finance and accounting that the possibilities are truly endless
Fasset is the Sector Education Training Authority, responsible for skills
development in the sub sectors of Finance and Accounting.
Fasset seeks to further enhance learning opportunities by implementing suitable measures to facilitate the development of skills within the finance and accounting sector, addressing scarce and critical skills
Although Fasset is not a direct employer, Fasset encourages learners to pursue finance related careers as the financial services sector is particularly important because it is the largest employer of people with financial management, accounting, and auditing skills.
This sector includes:
Provides learners with bridging programmes for access to higher education, for access to employment and for the completion of qualifications and/or designations.
An example is the work readiness programme (access to employment).These programmes are designed specifically to assist unemployed graduates with both soft skills (e.g. business communication) and technical financial skills (virtual office; pastel etc) so that they can enter the workplace better equipped. Up to 80% of learners are placed in employment upon completion of the 6 month programme.
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visit our Bridging Programmes page.
Scarce skills refers to a shortage of people with the required attributes to fill positions available in the labour market. The attributes that employers are seeking when they try to fill positions in their organisations are specifically important. These may be qualifications, specific skills and experience, a specific race or gender or a combination of these attributes. Scarce skills are normally expressed in terms of the occupations for which there are not enough candidates available. Scarce skills in the financial services sector are mainly in the professional and technician and associated professional occupations. Although these occupational categories are experiencing above average growth, the shortages are often related to very special skills sought by employers. The lack of qualified black people, especially in the higher level occupations and professional designations, is considered a serious problem.
Click here to read the Fasset Scare Skills guide
The implementation of learnerships will assist in addressing the existence of scarce skills. There are currently 32 learnerships that fall within the Fasset sector. Click here for more information on the learnerships available, then click on the learnership titles for comprehensive information on each learnership. Enquiries regarding any specific learnership can be addressed to the
PQA Department or the relevant professional body.
When choosing a financial career it is important to consider the different kinds of occupations that are available. It is also important to note that there are different pathways to a career in the finance sector. These pathways are often linked to membership of professional bodies and they lead to different career opportunities.