Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nick
This week, we’ve been interviewing for a fairly senior marketing role on a particular project. With the current economic climate, there’s been no shortage of high-calibre applicants. It’s not the first time I’ve conducted interviews; but it is the first time I’ve been able to sit back and watch. A colleague of mine was running [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Nick
Ah yes… workplace stress. It happens to the best of us. Apparently, we should all be doing more to moderate our behaviour, and try not to get too uptight. But, despite being presumably on a one-way ticket to a heart attack, I prefer to think that people don’t really change that much: if you’re calm [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2009 by Nick
Today, I have been interviewing interns (none of those jokes, please). Now, usually I would take this opportunity to criticise the state of the education system, and moan about how ill-prepared for the workplace today’s school and college leavers are. Every batch of CVs brings me another classic howler (this week we got ‘I am [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by Nick
My friend and social networking dude Leon Benjamin has just posted an interesting piece about what he calls “fractional work”. He’s specifically referring to splitting a job into lots of small pieces, which can then be produced by different people. This is nothing new – Henry Ford’s genius in inventing the production line was that different [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2008 by Nick
Unemployment is up by a whopping 160,000 in the past three months- the highest increase in seventeen years. Which means now would be the ideal moment to welcome 160,000 potential entrepreneurs to the world of running their own businesses. I started my first company because I’d just left college, and the sorts of jobs I [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by Nick
Soothsayers and sleight-of-hand merchants, magicians and Victorian side-show owners. They’re as good a bet in understanding the current economic climate as anyone in the press. I mean, what sort of misguided fool would proffer their opinion on this recession? Who’d be daft enough to stick their head above the parapet? Er… me. I can’t help [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by Nick
I hope this week finds you well! At the end of last week, I had to tell one of the several writers who work for me on a freelance basis that we were parting company. It’s obviously not as painful as releasing a full-time employee, but it’s still an unpleasant experience on both sides. Before [...]
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