I heard today that there is going to be a “Kindness Seminar” held in London, looking at why kindness is a forgotten skill in today’s society and why carrying out a random act of kindness is not just so beneficial to communities as a whole but also for your soul. It makes you happier. Read the rest of this entry »
Kindness, a forgotten attribute..
November 10th, 2011Thank you
September 30th, 2011To all our candidates this month, we have had, despite the hard times in which we operate, one of our best months for permanent placements ever. Read the rest of this entry »
The Other Side of the Coin
September 21st, 2011Following on from yesterday, or rather, putting the other side.. I would like to express that the vast majority of candidates that we meet are an absolute delight, and are the reason why we do this job. Read the rest of this entry »
Not Turning Up For Interviews
September 20th, 2011Right this is the most frustrating annoyance with certain candidates.. why oh why do people do this? It is the single most hated aspect of recruitment, the complete bane of recruitment consultants lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Realism
September 14th, 2011This will only be a quick one as so busy!
Just recently I have noticed that candidates are being offered jobs at slightly less salaries than they have hoped for and I just wanted to explain how recruitment today is working. Read the rest of this entry »
The News of the World and why it matters
July 8th, 2011The closure of the News of the World has many ramifications, not only for the 250 recently unemployed staff who seem to be scapegoats for the immoral judgements made by their Management team, not only for the important and crucial ethos that we have a Free Press and actually not only for the innocent people who have had their liberties and privacy violated and for whom I have the utmost sympathy, but HOPEFULLY for society as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »
One in Five: Young and Jobless
April 14th, 2011This was The Times’s headline, Wednesday 13th April and there is one point I would like to pick up on from it… the article looked at 6 young people who were unemployed, different levels of education all with little or no experience and all of whom wanted to work.. so at least their attitude was right Read the rest of this entry »
What are the prospects for the Younger Generation?
February 18th, 2011Watched an interesting interview on BBC News this morning, between a lady from Connexions responsible for youth employment and a professional headhunter.
The lady, sorry her name escapes me, tried to say that the youth of today are desperate to work, and the Headhunter coined Mr Tebbit’s phrase of getting on one’s bike.
I am a Celebrity…
November 19th, 2010I have only one comment to make this week… Vote Gillian McKeith for all the Trials, has there ever been a more annoying woman on the planet?
X-Factor Entry to Universities
November 12th, 2010So how about allowing Simon Cowell and a panel of judges to decide who should go to University? Is this not the future of society? Reality style interviews to decide who is worthwhile of Higher Education. The General Public could vote on which students they felt were suitable for University, and the Tax Payer would support and who were a waste of Tax Payers money? Read the rest of this entry »