Today, 24 March, is both the anniversary of the birth and death of John Harrison (1693 - 1776). If you have never heard of Harrison or the H4 read on, for his contribution to putting the Great into Britain is one we should seek to emulate today.
Harrison, a self-educated clock-maker, solved a problem that had [...]
The economy may be equally bad in the US, but that doesn’t stop our American cousins taking a positive attitude to personal predicaments. Fast taking hold are ‘pink slips parties‘, which before anyone asks do not necessitate wearing pink lingerie. Rather, these are named after the pink slips that employees receive in the States to notify [...]
Reading Alice Schroeder’s superb biography of Warren Buffett, ‘The Snowball’, it’s striking how many similarities there are between previous financial disasters and our current economic woes - the big difference this time seems to be that so many of these events coincided that there was no way of stopping them. One section examines Buffet’s involvement [...]
Posted in Posts | Tagged Economy |
One of the most frustrating things about being out of work and hunting for a job is the feeling that you are all alone. Every day one gets up and searches for new jobs for which to apply; every day one sends off applications and waits, and waits… It can be thoroughly dispiriting (a) not [...]
Also posted in Job Hunter | Tagged Job Search |
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 [...]
Despite the rise and rise of Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter*, I feel that we are entering an era of new-seriousness, post-trivialism perhaps. Suddently the words on everyone’s lips are not related to consumption (usually conspicious) but to economic concepts such as interest rates, employment, and the money supply (using that fantastically [...]
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 [...]
The Daily Telegraph’s jobs’ monitor makes for pretty grim reading, especially when you realize that the total number of jobs lost (the actual number is currently 102,183) have all gone in the last 4 months. Not only does that mean that there are 100,000 fewer people in work and a corresponding number of businesses that are [...]
Also posted in Economy | Tagged Redundancy |
How long will a recruiter look at your CV before moving onto the next? With hundreds of people chasing every job, the chances are it won’t be long. You might be lucky to get 15 seconds.
So it’s vitally important to make a quick and favourable impression. If you do, there’s a chance [...]
Also posted in The Perfect CV | Tagged CVs, Job Search |
By Ben | February 24, 2009
One of the current buzz words in HR is competencies. Rather than thinking of your lifetime’s achievements as a list of individual actions, the key is to analyse them and to work out what competencies you have gained as a result. A good example of a competency is teamwork - every project that you engage [...]
Posted in Posts | Tagged Competencies |
