If you are connected to me on Facebook, you’ll already be aware of the details of my road accident last Friday, 24th September, whilst riding my scooter home from work. If so, there’s no need to read on, but several people have asked for information, so here goes. Also, if I don’t blog about this...
As a recruiter, and professional nosey-parker, I always loved finding out intimate details of individuals’ working lives, which they would never reveal to other people. One of those, of course, is the biggest taboo subject in the workplace –salary. A spokesman for the Government Equalities Office says: “From October 2010 the Equality Act will make...
Continuing with my theme of writing about inconsequential trivial drivel…. It’s surely only a matter of time before I get arrested for this. Contrary to the established traditions of bloggers, I have only one thing that so agitates me to the point of apoplexy. So much so, it has driven me to anti-social (and possibly...
I’m going to rewrite my blog from yesterday, as when I reread it, it was crap – badly written and too lengthy. It seems I’m not the only one, as very few people read it. Here’s the potted version. Ahem… Because I’m a recruiter by trade, I judge everyone I meet in a clinical fashion....
As a young-ish industry, subject to change at any time (as is the wont of many internet businesses) the online recruitment sector is subject to the threat of game changing moves, which can radically alter the premise upon which we mostly operate. Our industry is entirely predicated upon a set of assumptions, about how we...
Plagiarism amongst modern stand-up comedians is viewed within the industry as a mortal sin, or at the very least as outright theft. These artisans make their living quite literally by their wits, and jealously guard the form of words that they carefully craft into their act. Not only one-liner gags, but whole scenarios, comic story...
Is a spam letter to a stranger at my exact home address suspicious? This morning I received a piece of sales literature addressed to a mysterious Miss Nazmin Subhan at my home address. Sent via a DHL mailing service, it could, of course, be a clerical/ computer error, whereby her name has accidently been connected...
Much as I detest self-referential blogs that only ever talk about the “art of blogging”, and how hard it is, their social media stats, bounce rates, comment ratios etc, I’m going to go ahead and write one now. Forgive me. I’ve been writing running and contributing to blogs for a couple of years, but only...
This is a response to the blog post by Mervyn Dinnen here. There is inevitable duplicity built into the entire recruitment process. Would you advise a candidate to be scrupulously honest, and offer “full disclosure” in a discoverable way online? Lies being told. 1. Candidates appear at interview, pretending that they already want the job,...
I love Formula 1 motor racing, and have been staying up late to watch races from far corners of the world since the days of Nigel Mansell, Prost and Senna. The events of the past few weeks have demonstrated that the biggest rivals are often within the same team; Vettel and Webber have crashed into...
