Pronounced as "I Write" - unutterably unctuous, plausibly perspicacious
Forgive me for taking the next few paragraphs to state the bleeding obvious.
In every job board, there are three interested parties; those who run the board itself, the job advertisers (employers and recruitment agencies) and candidates. Candidates may feel that it is they who are looking for jobs, but the truth is that they [...]
People often ask me; OK sometimes ask me; OK, they asked me once, “what is your very favourite gadget?” Now I love a gadget, and would like to think myself a peer of that fellow gadgeteer, Sir James of Mayes. However, my answer may not even qualify as a gadget, per se. The award for [...]
OK, so it seems like the English FA are embarking upon an extensive and far-reaching search for a successor to Fabio Capello (hat in Italian), before offering the job to Harry Rednapp. Almost everyone agrees that the outcome is a foregone conclusion, so why bother going to extraordinary lengths, and expense, to arrive at the [...]
So we discover in the last week that some of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies, had entered into non-compete pact, with regard to recruiting staff from each other. In this instance Google, Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Intel and Intuit are the co-accused in this particular cartel. Of course these companies are all headquartered [...]
What a huge pile of stinking, sloppy steaming turds we are being served, on the subject of employee contracts at the moment! It’s been common, in recent times, to hear people bemoan the lack of spelling, grammar, and correct use of English in public discourse. We laugh, when we receive a badly written CV. We [...]
Every job board is born with original sin. The very first task of any new job board is to justify its existence, and the fact that its very presence further fragments the market, which in turn makes things more difficult for jobseekers. You could of course say the same thing of any retailer in a [...]
I am a feminist, if only because many women don’t think it’s important enough to bother about. Let me qualify that; I am for complete equality, in all practical regards, and against illogical inequality. I grew up in a house with three sisters, and my mum earned more than my dad.
In the early years [...]
As is traditional in December, there are all sorts of blogs and articles reviewing the last year, and predicting the next. I’ve fallen for that before, and won’t do so again. I’m not saying they are useless (they are), but you do need to take them with a giant pinch of salt. Instead, let me [...]
“I remember when this was all fields, as far as the eye can see!” When I was young, this was one of my Dad’s favourite phrases. With the passing of time, some of us older geezers can now say this about the Online Recruitment industry.
16 years ago (or thereabouts) an industry was born. Pioneers [...]
If unemployment rates are at a 17 year high, and youth unemployment (16-24 year olds) especially has risen to 991,000 or 21.3%, then how can it be that businesses are struggling to find talent? Perhaps businesses are being too fussy, or maybe even a higher proportion of the young demographic are unemployable. Surely not, you [...]
