Alan Furley

Alan is co-founder and CEO of ISL Talent, a business that helps tech startups and scaleups grow through talent planning and finding great people. Alan supports several seed and venture accelerators, providing expertise particularly around people and scaling teams to companies looking to raise investment and grow. He has supported Digital Catapult on their technology programmes and presented to audiences from SETSquared, Future Space and TechSPARK. Alan mentors on the University of Bristol and UWE enterprise schemes, works with the Cranfield Trust helping leaders of charities, and volunteers for Founder4Schools, helping school children with interview skills and career choices. He completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme in 2018, and in 2022 was shortlisted as Business Leader of the Year and delighted to help ISL become certified as a UK Best Workplace again.

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Startup hiring trends: navigating talent and AI in 2024

I run a recruitment business for startups, typically working with companies with 10–50 employees to help them make key hires and scale their team.

Making sense of recruitment in startups

I run a recruitment business for startups, typically helping companies 10-50 employees to help them make key hires and scale their team. Our team gets to talk to founders and leaders about their hiring challenges and plans, as well as people that are thinking about their careers and what they would want if they were to take a new role.

Why CVs are stopping you hiring the best people

Alongside inventing the first parachute and helicopter, Leonardo da Vinci is credited with creating the first CV. In 1482 he wrote to the Duke of Milan to try and secure some work. And it worked. The Duke become a fan, commissioned da Vinci for The Last Supper, and the rest is history.

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