We want to welcome Martin Flack who joins Datacenter People, based in the Devonshire Square office. Martin’s career started in sales before moving into Construction Recruitment. From there he progressed into IT Recruitment. For much of the past three years he worked for Darwin Recruitment, a large multinational IT Recruitment Company, where he was responsible for placement delivery in the German telecoms market.
As such Martin has a great combination of experience to cover data center technical requirements as well as the cloud side as that develops for us.
Why Datacenter People and how have the first few weeks been?
I chose Datacenter People as my next step into a niche recruitment sector, to build upon my previous roles within Construction, Telecoms and Software Development recruitment. The data center industry presents the opportunity to utilize my skills and experience with the focus into a specialist market.
Datacenter People is going through an exciting phase with the opening of the new office in London and the vision both Steve and Adam have for the company is something that I wanted to be a part of.
The first few weeks have been exciting, getting to understand the culture and life at Datacenter People, having the opportunity to work with some very interesting global clients and understanding the Data Center Industry is something that is going to assist us me going forward with my daily search activities.
Question: Where have you seen the most significant shifts in the telecommunications sector (including data center and cloud) over the last two to three years?
Answer: As technology increases at lightning speed, data center performance requirements continue to rise as well. For example, as of 2016, Google data centers generated $1.3 billion in economic activity across the US, and have generated over 11,000 jobs.
Question: What skills and personality traits are required for senior level managers to succeed in this age of digital transformation?
Answer: I think with the transformation, one of the main traits is going to have to be flexibility. The use of the cloud and new technologies will continue to affect our general day to day routines.
Question: If you were to comment on an emerging trend in data center and cloud recruitment among candidates seeking new positions, what would it be?
Answer: We are fortunate enough to be in the period where we have a lot of emerging technologies. However, the one that stands out for me would be IoT (Internet Of Things) with $6 trillion dollars expected to be spent in the next five years on IoT.
Question: Datacenter People is a global organization with offices in Europe, Asia and the United States. Where are you seeing the most opportunity right now for data center and cloud professionals?
Answer: We are seeing a lot of demand in the Nordics as well the FLAP markets. The US as the biggest data center and cloud market is showing constant demand.
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