Or, how I came to be in the wrong place at the right time. This isn’t a funny or peculiar story, but the assassination attempt of Margaret Thatcher is the closest I’ve come to a live historical event. I’ve retold it countless times, but never written it down, until now. In 1984, when I was 18, I...
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,...
This isn’t an original thought, but it’s my spin on it. This week I met with a large number of recruitment agency directors at a UK Recruiter networking event. James Caan was speaking, and two other guys. No offence to the 2 other guys, one from Barclays Capital, I think, and the other was a...
This is in response to @JamesMayes post about http://thetwitcleaner.com/ and Twitter Follower Analysis. Both @LouiseTriance and I tried this today, and apparently we’re clean, but a whole load of follows we have are hollow and pointless. It’s probably a good thing, because I just couldn’t read tweets from so many other people. I’m also interested...
As anyone who has spent more than five minutes as a recruiter will know, there are many aspects to the industry, and many different types of personality which work well in the space. I’ve been in several positions myself, from perm and professional contractor recruiter to agency owner, technology director, and very rarely, temp recruiter....
Right, Who can I slag off next? It seems that in order to take umbrage with certain groups of people, you need to be entitled to do so, by dint of having walked a mile in their shoes. To do otherwise, would be offensive in the extreme, as you clearly “don’t know what you’re talking...
It’s often stated as supposed fact, but I heard this said again recently. I was told that in the UK, the general public loves to build up an individual to an extreme level, and then relish the pleasure in tearing them down again. Another version of this, is that in the UK we resent and...
Right, I’m prepared to make myself look like an idiot here. Why is it that whilst so much of the world opposes the actions of Israel, with regard to its occupation of other countries, the blockade of Gaza, and unofficial possession of nuclear weapons, their support by the USA remains solid? Am I being misled? ...
OK, this may appear a little rambling, but I promise to get to the point (and it is recruitment and job board related). My home town of Airdrie was the first in Scotland to install CCTV cameras in 1992, monitoring the general public. 12 cameras were installed, and a soon after, to measure their effects...
