Introducing students to a career in Digital, Data and Technology

...part of a Hidden Careers Event. The event took was organised by One South West, a community of civil servants across the South West of England. The day involved talks,...
...part of a Hidden Careers Event. The event took was organised by One South West, a community of civil servants across the South West of England. The day involved talks,...
...This includes Cardiff and South Wales. It used to be the case that to make a career in government, or big business, you would have to move to London. Not...
Data Workspace promo which reads “Data Workspace: Making data more accessible for colleagues in the Department for International Trade” The Department for International Trade (DIT) is committed to supporting its...
...with accessibility in mind from the outset. We were lucky that DBT had already accepted it should meet the Technology Code of Practice and Service Standard for all services, regardless...
...Free Code Camp or Code Academy. You could also look for programs offering training in multiple roles, like the DDaT and Cyber Fast Stream. Once I’d decided to make the...
...our services in the GOV UK cloud, pair Pull Request reviews using static code analysis tools, and make sure that our code follows the testing pyramid paradigm. A screenshot of...
...writing code. It involves analysing the specific problem I’m trying to solve, making sense of the code that’s already there, discussing different technical solutions with colleagues, running tests and reviewing...
...on security, reliability, and data integration. The platform is built on open-source technologies such as Python and Django and the source code for Data Hub's front and back end is...
...released open-source code on which our own code depends. To benefit from community contributions, encourage reuse across government, and to work transparently in the public interest, we also publish our...
...or we weren’t sure whether their laptop needed to be replaced. Things which we couldn’t fix using code, we needed users to tell us. This meant that we couldn’t simply...