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Let us take a moment to introduce to you Mickaël, our Marketplace Director. Mickaël joined Checkatrade in October 2023 and has been building a brand-new team focused in increasing our marketplace capability. This is an exciting pivot, crucial for our scale up, and will see us shifting our focus from simply operating as a lead generation platform to true value generation across both sides of our marketplace. We caught up with Mickaël to get his thoughts on how to get there...
Tune in to this podcast to hear our CEO Jambu Palaniappan and Rob Fawkes talk about innovation, ambition and the future of UK tech. It’s A Little Bit Radical…
Check out the latest article at Mail Online sharing about our continued work on combating rogue trades.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our brand new Checkatrade app! The app will make connecting with quality tradespeople and managing jobs across the home even easier for consumers. Trade members will also see the benefits, as job information is enhanced by photo upload and two-way chat, all in one place. This milestone is a testament to our hard work and dedication to improving the way consumers manage their home improvement projects and enhancing our services for tradespeople. Ready to tackle the next job on your home to-do list? Head over to app store for the download!
At Checkatrade, we’re all about development and supporting our talented team members to achieve their career goals. That’s why we’re delighted to be sharing the story of Senior Retention Manager Ryan who has progressed from an advisor in vetting to a senior management position. Go Ryan! Here he tells us more about the path he’s taken to date...
"Imagine a world where you could take a photo of your boiler and we could you diagnose what a likely problem is and recommend to you a trade who could fix it..." Our CEO Jambu Palaniappan sets out Checkatrade's hashtag#vision in The Sunday Times and shares more about how we're bringing the power of hashtag#technology to an offline industry, improving a core part of many people's lives, and supporting trade's livelihoods. Read below 👇
We had the pleasure of interviewing Chantel, who is nearing her impressive 10-year milestone at Checkatrade! Throughout her time at Checkatrade, Chantel has consistently pushed boundaries, moving up the ranks to her recent promotion as Associate Software Engineer. We sat down with Chantel to delve into her experiences at Checkatrade and uncover the motivations behind her bold career journey. Want to take a leap into #tech just like Chantel? Check out out her journey, thoughts and tips at: https://careers.checkatrade.com/news/my-journey-in-tech/
Change of Engineering Leadership This year we’re investing heavily in technology, including innovation in platforms, products and people. Our mission to be the trusted foundation of every home is being accelerated by our huge opportunity to transform the face of the home improvements and repairs sector. We are leveraging cutting-edge technology to craft a service that truly matters – making life simpler and more efficient for all our customers. From simply connecting our customers to trades, to building an end-to-end solution for safe and happy homes; we are on an exciting growth journey! That’s why we’re delighted to introduce two of the game changers that have recently joined our team of top leadership talent - Liv and Vrash.
Our Checkachats episode 2 ‘Data Unplugged’ is a brief introduction to the role of Data at Checkatrade touching on Checkatrade data & insights capabilities, data analysis, AI, data democratization and data products. You’ll hear from Thomas Pandolfo (Chief Data Officer) and Dr Andreas Antoniades (Head of Data Science) about our drive to move from simply data-informed decisions to AI-backed decision-making. Whether you are simply looking to learn more about our data function or interested in working for us, visit https://lnkd.in/eM9RDzCc for a peak behind the scenes.
Our podcast, “Evolving our consumer proposition”, explores the up-and-coming release of a native #mobileapp to connect homeowners with trusted trades and tools to make home improvements easy and hassle-free. Join us as Pia Williams chats with Sid Baveja, Managing Director of Consumer, about our plans to build best-in-class consumer experiences and products. Check out the full podcast at https://lnkd.in/ekG7imSm ... and follow us for more!
