Pronounced as "I Write" - unutterably unctuous, plausibly perspicacious
The Recruiters Network has drawn me to London every few months since 2003. Based, as I am, 400 miles away from the epicentre of the UK online recruitment industry, I found it to be an invaluable way to network with the very people I needed to see most. Remember, this was before Twitter, Facebook and [...]
Only very occasionally in a lifetime do we find ourselves at the very start of something special. Usually, we don’t even realise it at the time. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but we rarely realise this at the time we are taking it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be [...]
OK, I’ll admit it. I am a LIB DEM. Calm down please, and stop tittering at the back. It’s a perfectly normal and reasonable thing for a full grown adult to do, and I won’t stand for any nonsense from you lot about it.
Even bigger than the looming World Cup in South Africa, the [...]
Unfortunately a great many managers, supervisors, and business owners have had to do just that in the past year. It’s something that defines you as a boss, and a responsibility that separates you from your team. These days, it’s an exercise that’s so fraught with difficulty, and dangerous repercussions, that often only in-house or outsourced [...]
Confessions first; My name is Stephen, and I am a DIY-er. I insist on doing almost everything for myself, and can’t bear the thought of paying someone else to do something I am capable of. The problem is, I believe I am capable of almost everything. I grew up being defined by building things, in [...]
Surely everyone is at least aware of The Searchologist (aka Jim Stroud)? I know I was a follower of his blog, and even had his App on my iPhone (which I recommend).
So it was an absolute pleasure to meet Jim in the flesh as, even amongst the dazzling array of stellar talent at #TRULondon, [...]
In the retail sector, much attention is paid to the science and analysis of “Footfall”. Footfall is defined as the number of pedestrian traffic that crosses a store’s threshold. Each one is a potential customer, who has arrived on the premises for a wide range of reasons. They may have responded to an advertisement, came [...]
This may seem a no-brainer to anyone in the online recruitment industry, and perhaps even a preposterous question for me to ask, given my role in the sector over the past decade. In the picture here “La strada per l’inferno e lastricata di buone intenzioni” translates as “The road to hell is paved with good [...]
Throw open the shutters, open the windows, and take the sandbags from the doors. The storm of recession has past, and we can all get back to normal. Perhaps not quite.According to the Office of National Statistics, the UK economy experienced growth of 0.1% in the last quarter, and unemployment unexpectedly fell by 7,000 in [...]
This week there has been the re-awakening of the old class-war arguments, that have raged for over a century, and have often come to define the struggle of the Labour party. The catalyst for this has been the educational backgrounds of Messrs Cameron, Osborne, Boris Johnston, and many more senior Conservatives.
The arguments against private [...]
