I agree that Jimmy Carr hasn’t done anything wrong, morally or otherwise, and should not be castigated for keeping within the law. It was outrageous that the Prime Minister should choose one person to name in this way. As with any tax system, there are a myriad of allowances, incentives, penalties and pitfalls. HMRC are...
I don’t have a qualification to my name (past high school anyway). I am capable of a great many things, but just don’t have the paperwork to prove it. But who do I need to prove it to, myself, or everyone else? Is it the education or the certificates that I regret not attaining (because...
For many people, in order to comprehend the world, they need to travel through it, whilst others seem to have the ability to understand from the viewpoint of the place grew up in. Whether we like it or not, we all have a relationship with our hometown. We can be on the other side of...
Guess what? Every single active recruiter in the UK is listed on LinkedIn. That may not come as a surprise to anyone, as Recruiters are professional networkers, and LinkedIn is the biggest free CV database. By definition, it is the job of a professional recruiter to market themselves to their chosen industry sector, clients...
Throughout the ages, there has been a long history of segregation of the people we share a planet with. In most instances there is an accompanying ”plausible” explanation, where we are told that certain people, of differing cultures, sex, ethnicity, race or religion need to be kept apart. We are all aware of the effects...
You may have noticed the shitstorm of controversy sparked yesterday by an online article in the Daily Mail, entitled “Why women hate me for being beautiful”. Samantha Brick, for it is she, contended that ordinary and ugly looking women discriminate against her because of her looks. A separate article in The Economist last week, takes...
I don’t believe them for a second. Politicians perpetually tell you one thing, when they mean another. What they are implementing may well be the exact right thing to do, but because they are steered by think-tanks, focus groups and PR arseholes, they feel compelled to spin illogical drivel, when the truth should already be...
This is an article I’ve had published in the March 2012 edition of Recruiter Magazine. What does every recruitment firm have in common with social media platforms like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Google+? We all maintain a large, and growing, database of individuals. Doing so confers a list of responsibilities which we share, and...
This is a very simplistic theory, but I think it bears exploring. In my experience there are two distinct types of recruiters; those who naturally thrive in the recruitment of Permanent Staff, and those who excel running a Temp Desk. Perms recruiters typically handle 10 to 15 concurrently running recruitment projects, which can each...
Some 28 years ago (when I was 18), and in the same building as my current office, I experienced my very first job in sales. This telesales role was selling advertising in the in-house magazines and diaries of police and fire federations and associations. This was all very new to me, and the office had...
