In the 1960’s my dad worked as a trainer in the Scottish School of Salesmanship. For Thirty-Bob (£1.50 payable by jobseekers), he would train individuals and guarantee interviews for jobs as travelling salesmen (yes, they were all men). The training was very basic, but such was the appeal of working in sales in the ‘60’s,...
Gary is an average jobseeker; currently in employment, working in an insurance company in Manchester, aged 33, wife, 2 kids etc etc. He’s not looked for a job for 4 years, and has stayed longer than he’d planned with his present employer, rather than risk a move during the recession. So like 87% of jobseekers...
Warning; this article may contain spoilers. I’m not usually one for giving away plots in movies that others have yet to see. I’m a pretty gullible movie-goer, and readily get drawn into the premise of a movie, happily suspending disbelief as each ridiculous device is deployed in order to take me down the director’s chosen...
The Recruiters Network has drawn me to London every few months since 2001. 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...
