Pronounced as "I Write" - unutterably unctuous, plausibly perspicacious
Or, how I came to be in the wrong place at the right time.
This isn’t a funny or peculiar story. I’ve retold it countless times, but never written it down, until now. In 1984, when I was 18, I spent a second summer season working in the hotels of the Isle of Man. As [...]
Ten years ago this very month, I started a new online business, AlljobsUK.com. It was a pretty stupid thing to do, as I had already started a new recruitment agency just one year before. Especially stupid, because this meant that I was effectively trying to ride two horses with the one backside. And two unbroken horses [...]
Last night I had cause to shop around t’Internet for a new washing machine. It’s amazing the range of deals available, but of course the nature of a washing machine means that it needs replaced immediately, making a 10 day delivery wait unfeasible (there’s a lot of washing done in our house). It put me [...]
There is a continually repeating “circle of life” in the UK recruitment industry, where its own progeny leave established firms to set up in competition. I know, as I’ve been part of it. The incidence of this is most evident amongst the small and medium recruitment firms up and down the land.
As an industry, [...]
