The Ironhack Blog

Are you looking for a job or to change careers? It’s no secret that companies are looking for skilled employees for their workforce. You’ve undoubtedly seen job postings that come with a long list of skills in addition to required years of experience. You may be wondering what it means when job postings mention “hard skills” and “soft skills.” Though you’ll be acquiring and refining both types of skills throughout your career, it’s important to distinguish what makes hard skills different from soft skills. 

Many Ironhackers join our bootcamps because they feel "stuck" in life trying to navigate their career. Often, they feel they’ve reached a dead end; they crave development and growth, and they don’t see a future progressing from where they are right now, professionally speaking. But the alternative can be so much scarier: making a major change in one of the biggest areas of your life, like your country of residence, your social circles, or your career, seems like a very looked-down-on, very risky move. And the truth is that it’s not easy to do it alone. But it is easier than you might think.

A UX strategy or user experience strategy should be just as vital to your brand as its overall mission statement. We will look at what exactly makes up a UX strategy, why it is so important to have one, and cover the basic steps that should go into putting one together.

Big thinkers, bold movers, and boundary breakers are in high demand in the United Kingdom! The UK is full of opportunities for tech talent across the board. Digital jobs and skills are underpinning the growth of the UK's thriving tech sector, which in turn is creating high-productivity jobs at scale. 

The relationship between employers and employees is changing. We’ve heard and talked about all the never-before-seen work trends we’re witnessing: the Great Reshuffle, the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting… call it what you will: the ground is shaking in the job market! The views on what work is worth are evolving to a new, more humane understanding of what work is supposed to be like: more fair, better compensated, with a better work-life balance, and, more than anything, more rewarding.

Deep learning (DL) is a subset of machine learning. It allows artificial intelligence (AI) to use neural networks to predict outcomes based on data analysis. It essentially allows the AI to mimic how the human brain works to “think” intuitively based on what it already knows.