When I started working in PA Housing’s customer contact centre in Leicester three years ago, I was a complete technophobe – I didn’t even know how to use Excel. I’ve now helped on organisation-wide CRM projects and am helping to build a chatbot. I’m also the person who liaises between residents, staff members and the…
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Recruitment
Encouraging women into housing IT
Is it right that we are still discussing women in IT as a standalone topic in 2020? The dawn of a new decade demands a hard look at why this subject continues to require special attention. According to the training and job website Women in Tech, “Only one in six tech specialists in the UK…
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Women in housing IT
Housing Technology interviewed a group of women involved in housing IT from Adra, Civica, Community Housing, Northgate Public Services, PIMSS Data Systems, Prodo Digital and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their various roles in IT, any challenges they’ve faced as women in a traditionally fairly male-dominated sector and how more women can be encouraged to consider…
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All together now
What uniquely connects Sir Clive Woodward OBE, Simon Weston OBE, George Clarke, Baron Bird, Rev. Giles Fraser, Dr Sue Black OBE and Maggie Philbin OBE? They have all been just some of the keynote speakers from our past annual Housing Technology conferences and executive forums, illustrating the diverse nature of each event and how social…
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Get Housing Technology’s ‘The E-State of the Nation’ report
Housing Technology has just published ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018/19’ report, covering UK social housing providers’ current and future plans for their IT estates and how technology underpins all of their business operations. The report is based on a comprehensive online survey of over 150 senior IT and business executives from UK housing providers…
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ForViva scraps appraisals for real-time MHR check-ins
ForViva has replaced its annual appraisal process with ‘continuous conversations’ supported by real-time ‘check-ins’ using an application from HR and payroll software supplier MHR. ForViva decided to remove its employees’ annual appraisals and interim reviews because they were proving costly both in terms of time and resource while areas for the employees’ improvement were typically…
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