Well they may not be coming until 2010, but the announcement by Tesco that it is to create 800 new jobs in Glasgow as part of its growing finance business is good news. Why Glasgow? Doubtless a £5m grant from the Scottish Executive helped to sweeten the deal, but it’s likely that Tesco was looking [...]
Also posted in Economy | Tagged Economy, Glasgow, RBS, Tesco |
A worrying piece in Personnel Today quotes both John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI with the same observation: that the much touted creative alternatives to redundancy (e.g. 4 day weeks and job sharing) may only serve to delay redundancies rather than prevent them altogether. [...]
Amid all the gloomy economic news, the process of looking for a new job is undoubtedly a dispiriting one for many. So what tips can this blog offer?
First, it is important to be highly organised: to track every job for which you apply (even though most will not even deign to respond); to be rigorous [...]
News from across the Atlantic courtesy of the Economist suggests that new jobs are on offer…just not yet. Evidently hiring patterns are changing, which adds to the importance for candidates to do everything that they can to customise each CV to the job on offer.
Now, this blog isn’t primarily a political blog. However there are things that are done in the name of politics that affect us all, and right now the behaviour of our government is having a profound impact on the ability of millions to get on with their everyday lives. In particular, the government’s inept management [...]
Also posted in Economy | Tagged boo, election, Gordon Brown |
Another snippet from Quentin Letts’s analysis of the Privy Council (see previous post) revealed an interesting ambition on the part of Michael Portillo: to secure membership of this august yet mysterious body in order to become ‘Right Honourable’ rather than merely ‘Honourable’. With current scrutiny of Parliament suggesting that most members are anything but honourable, [...]
Slightly away from the usual theme of this blog, I share with you an exchange on Radio 4 this morning. To presenter Quentin Lett’s question: ‘what is the point of the Privy Council?’ one interviewee replied:
‘I’ve no idea; we’re not from round here, we’re from Southampton.’
Can’t add much to that.
A good piece in the Economist this week about the benefits of ‘intrapreneurship’:
Some management writers have tried to take the idea of entrepreneurship into big organisations, encouraging full-time employees (on monthly salaries and the promise of a pension) to think like entrepreneurs. The idea has been dubbed “intrapreneurship”. One definition says that intrapreneurship is “the [...]
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A quick announcement about www.GazetMe.com. Thank you to all our users for your feedback about the functionality on the site, we do pay attention and take on board anything that helps to improve your user experience. One comment that was made by many users was that you didn’t like having too many mandatory fields when [...]
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