By Ben | February 9, 2011
As always, McKinsey Quarterly is on the money when it comes to analysing business trends. In this issue, an insightful piece examines the way that knowledge workers carry out their tasks and discusses to what extent it is possible to establish defined processes for such employees to follow; essentially it is asking: should knowledge workers [...]
By Ben | November 4, 2009
Attention software developers (and Microsoft that means you in particular): why is it that you feel you have to display every bit of functionality on screen every time we use your apps?
I’ve been thinking alot about functionality, information overload, and the notion of ‘rusting’ about which I blogged recently. To my mind, the classic Google [...]
By Ben | November 2, 2009
A thought-provoking interview this morning with Professor Victor Mayer-Schönberger on Radio 4’s Start the Week with Andrew Marr examined how we deal with the mass of personal information that we publish online: should more be done to build obsolescence into our personal data trail? This is an issue that I’ve written about before and to which [...]
The employment market is peculiar in that it is dominated and organized by buyers rather than sellers. In most markets that we encounter in our everyday lives it is the sellers who set out their stalls, price and advertise their goods or services, and await buyers who are willing to purchase.
In the employment marketplace it [...]
Also posted in Posts | Tagged Job Search |
The information available online is undoubtledly a boon to job seekers - take a moment to recall how it was during the last recession when you had to search for jobs in the papers and getting information on individual companies was down to word of mouth or writing and asking for printed matter like annual [...]
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