Tag Archives: Economy

Check out the competition

By Ben | May 2, 2009

It’s no joke - 1,500 battle for 130 jobs at a new Tesco department store in Preston. That’s at least 11 applicants for each post. If you are looking for a job, competition is tough; your CV has got to stand out for you even to have a hope of an interview.
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2% of Northern Ireland’s manufacturing base gone in a week

By Ben | April 2, 2009

As Gordon Brown trumpets his global deal, the reality on planet employment is looking grim.  As the BBC has headlined today, 2% of Northern Ireland’s manufacturing jobs have been lost this week alone.  The biggest losses came from Bombardier Aerospace (1,000 made redundant) and while it might be tempting to think of this as denying [...]

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Why the H4 should inspire innovation today

By Ben | March 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Snowball - the Sage saw it all before

By Ben | March 11, 2009

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 [...]

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