http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:07:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stick with me kid: we found the retailers with a right to be optimistic when we went to the Careers Forum and our pals at Mothercare have stuck to their word and doubled their profits on this time last year to £9.5m. Sales outside of the UK were up 9% ... http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog/company-profiles/mothercare-double-profits-with-global-expansion/ Retail’s up and down isn’t it?! One day you’ve got asos spanking the backside of everyone’s expectations; the next day someone’s trying to sell Woolworths for a pound. And today M&S are knocking 20% off everything in the store to get people back in before Christmas, and Debenhams holding a ... http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog/business-news/retail-sales-beating-targetsbut-for-how-long/ Headlines abound that Rolls Royce is to cut 1,500 – 2,000 jobs around the world. Don’t shoot yourself just yet – there will be 140 jobs likely to be cut at Derby and the firm has been cutting jobs since January. The cuts do not affect Rolls’ graduate scheme – ... http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog/company-profiles/rolls-royce-grad-scheme-on-track-despite-headlines/ There’s a recession on and those companies and employers that don’t pull their socks up are going to lose their pants. Just so in the case of Liberata – the company behind student maintenance allowances, who have botched the delivery of those grants; thousands of students are still waiting for ... http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog/unis-events/student-grant-company-lose-contract-to-capita/ Heaven knows I’ve got my work cut out finding the good news out there right now. That said, my old pal and head of the AGR Carl Gilliard keeps going on record to say that the majority of graduate recruiters are not cutting their graduate intake, and a significant percentage ... http://www.herecomestheboss.com/blog/company-profiles/cvs-at-the-ready-hp-sales-up-20/