Virtual Assessment Centre – March 2021

Last month we held our first ever Virtual Assessment Centre, to support us in the search for our next generation of Software Development Graduates! Perhaps unsurprisingly and given current circumstances, we had to do things a little differently this year… The HR team and some of the wider business worked together to recreate group tasks…

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A Christmas Less Ordinary – Advent Gifts 2020

During advent, the Microlise team traditionally receives 12 daily gifts which an army of elves place on everyone’s desks before the offices open every morning. This year, with the vast majority of us working from home, our thoughtful elves had to come up with a socially-distanced and equally delightful plan B. With a fair amount…

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Power-up your lunch break & your career development…or you could just eat Pizza

At Microlise we want employees to reach their potential, and to be the best that they can. This can only be achieved if employees have the opportunity to develop themselves, and to be developed.

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Looking After Our Mental Health

We’ve just marked World Mental Health Day for 2020 here at Microlise and it gave us pause to reflect on how we need to reach out and connect with each other and maintain our relationships – now more than ever. Being mentally healthy doesn’t just mean that you don’t have a mental health problem. Mental…

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It Is Often The Little Things That Count – Saying Thank You

It has been a strange year. Every business has needed to respond at speed to the extraordinary circumstances of the past number of months. For many staff it has also been a time of upheaval and uncertainty as some staff were furloughed – and stepped away from their normal roles for a time –  while…

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How Recruitment Has Pivoted in the Time of a Pandemic

Since the start of the UK lockdown in March, we have successfully recruited and remotely on boarded people across departments and welcomed project coordinators, project managers and apprentice developers and solutions architects among others…

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Microlise Support of Transaid Hits 5 Year Milestone

Five years ago this month, Microlise signed up as a Corporate Supporter of UK-based international development organisation, Transaid. It’s a partnership we are extremely proud of and through it, many of our team have involved themselves in challenges and activities big and small, from taking part in cycling trips in South Africa and Zambia, to…

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Apprentice and Graduate Assessment Centres

As we celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2020, we’ve just finalised offers to 20 graduates and apprentices who’ll we’ll be welcoming to our summer boot camp.

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Counting Down to Christmas – Microlise Style

At Microlise we thank our team for a year of hard work with a variety of daily gifts during the Advent season…

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Career Milestone – Antony Stickley, Technical Hardware Engineer, celebrates fifteen years

The team at Microlise is a special one and people stick around. Antony Stickley, a technical hardware engineer, has recently chalked-up an impressive fifteen years with the business.

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Software Developer Boot Camp – Feedback From The First Two-Week Sprint

Our Software Developer Graduate and Apprenticeship programme is an immersive three-month long initiative that reflects working life at Microlise – challenging and rewarding our rookies in equal measure.

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Career Milestone – Michael Lockwood, Head of Projects, Celebrates Ten Years

Michael Lockwood, Head of Projects (PE&NPI) here at Microlise, celebrates a decade in the business and relishes the constant variety and challenge of his role.

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