A career in Computer Graphics is looking good
Our friends at Escape Studios – dealing with careers in Computer Graphics – got in touch with the results of their latest survey: unlike other professions, Computer Graphic artists don’t seem to be driven by money: many feel that getting anything for doing the thing you love is worth it. ...
Monday, December 14th, 2009
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I know what you did last summer: Not much
There are firms that carries out “background checking” – basically, a firm that is hired to check you are who you say you are. As you can imagine this service is called on a lot when recruiting someone (or attending a masked sex ball). No surprise that recruiters can’t afford ...
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Tags: back ground checking on graduate job interviews, the graduate job interview, Writing your CV
There are firms that carries out “background checking” – basically, a firm that is hired to check you are who you say you are. As you can imagine this service is called on a lot when recruiting someone (or attending a masked sex ball). No surprise that recruiters can’t afford ...
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Tags: back ground checking on graduate job interviews, the graduate job interview, Writing your CV
The “rules” on work experience - should you get paid?!
So, if you didn’t know that you need work experience to land a job this summer, good luck sweeping the streets. The question is, at what cost do you get that experience? To be fair, arch-homosexual and journalist Johann Hari has been bleating for a while about how unfair work ...
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Tags: getting paid for work experience, Work Experience, Work placements
So, if you didn’t know that you need work experience to land a job this summer, good luck sweeping the streets. The question is, at what cost do you get that experience? To be fair, arch-homosexual and journalist Johann Hari has been bleating for a while about how unfair work ...
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Tags: getting paid for work experience, Work Experience, Work placements
Uk Start-up floats for £200m - look to SMEs!
What were you doing 8 years ago? I was discovering the true costs of rhinoplasty on the then Mrs Hanson and went to a memorable swimming gala at Michael Barrymore’s. Young Matthew Riley set a telecoms business in his garage with two other staff, and this week launched Daisy Communications ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Tags: graduate opportunities in the hidden job market, telecoms careers, Working for SMEs
What were you doing 8 years ago? I was discovering the true costs of rhinoplasty on the then Mrs Hanson and went to a memorable swimming gala at Michael Barrymore’s. Young Matthew Riley set a telecoms business in his garage with two other staff, and this week launched Daisy Communications ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Tags: graduate opportunities in the hidden job market, telecoms careers, Working for SMEs
CV as Powerful as Degree
I know you’re probably still on a post graduation high, but I’m sorry to tell you that I have some bad news. Yes, for all those graduates just sobering up following graduation the Sutton Trust is warning that just because you have a degree will not guarantee you a good ...
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Tags: cv, Degree, graduate, Graduation, Interviews, Jobs, Recession
I know you’re probably still on a post graduation high, but I’m sorry to tell you that I have some bad news. Yes, for all those graduates just sobering up following graduation the Sutton Trust is warning that just because you have a degree will not guarantee you a good ...
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Tags: cv, Degree, graduate, Graduation, Interviews, Jobs, Recession
Spend your Student Loan on a Business
When I was a student, entrepreneurialism simply meant how many different ways we could eat beans and student loans were but a distant flicker in someone’s eye, but now a whole new generation of students are putting these two words together and coming out with an entirely different answer. The advent ...
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Tags: Dragon's Den, entrepreneur, entrepreneurialism, start up, the apprentice
When I was a student, entrepreneurialism simply meant how many different ways we could eat beans and student loans were but a distant flicker in someone’s eye, but now a whole new generation of students are putting these two words together and coming out with an entirely different answer. The advent ...
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Tags: Dragon's Den, entrepreneur, entrepreneurialism, start up, the apprentice
HR Loves Social Networking
The good people of HR have spoken, and as usual I don’t understand a word they’re saying. They’ve said they like social networking, now in my day that was a brandy or six at the club, but now you can do this all from the safety of your own home ...
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Tags: Facebook, HR, Interviews, social network, twitter
The good people of HR have spoken, and as usual I don’t understand a word they’re saying. They’ve said they like social networking, now in my day that was a brandy or six at the club, but now you can do this all from the safety of your own home ...
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Tags: Facebook, HR, Interviews, social network, twitter
Uk could be first in the West to break out of recession
What’s this?!! The latest indications suggest the economy has started growing again, and that the UK will lead other major economies out of recession – if July shows a second quarter growth in GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Output may be up but the effects of the downturn will be felt ...
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Tags: job news for graduates, Uk Economy
What’s this?!! The latest indications suggest the economy has started growing again, and that the UK will lead other major economies out of recession – if July shows a second quarter growth in GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Output may be up but the effects of the downturn will be felt ...
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Tags: job news for graduates, Uk Economy
CIMA & BPP join forces to subsidise graduate course
Our good friends over at CIMA and BPP have decided to join forces for the good of graduate kind and start subsidising graduate courses in order to help new graduates in the toughest job market for decades. That’s right out of the goodness of their hearts they’re offering discounts of ...
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Tags: Accountancy, bpp, cima, graduate, post grad, Qualifications
Our good friends over at CIMA and BPP have decided to join forces for the good of graduate kind and start subsidising graduate courses in order to help new graduates in the toughest job market for decades. That’s right out of the goodness of their hearts they’re offering discounts of ...
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Tags: Accountancy, bpp, cima, graduate, post grad, Qualifications
Google use maths to predict employee happiness
I thought Google was supposed to be the ultimate place to work; where you get foot rubs and eagle flavoured ice cream just for turning up. Funny then that they should have developed a mathamatical algorithm to improve staff retention, by calculating when each of the 20,000 staff are likely ...
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Tags: google graduate opportunities, Workign for Google
I thought Google was supposed to be the ultimate place to work; where you get foot rubs and eagle flavoured ice cream just for turning up. Funny then that they should have developed a mathamatical algorithm to improve staff retention, by calculating when each of the 20,000 staff are likely ...
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Tags: google graduate opportunities, Workign for Google
If you’re tall, you’ll earn more
It appears that our cousins in Australia have sobered up long enough to do a study, I knew they could do it. So with this ground breaking step what do you suppose they’ve chosen to study? Economic liquidity? No. Popular fiscal opinion? Nope, you’ll never guess. They’ve chosen to study ...
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Tags: height, salary, wages
It appears that our cousins in Australia have sobered up long enough to do a study, I knew they could do it. So with this ground breaking step what do you suppose they’ve chosen to study? Economic liquidity? No. Popular fiscal opinion? Nope, you’ll never guess. They’ve chosen to study ...
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Tags: height, salary, wages
From Bear to Bull? Employers who rallied last month
Good news abounds: even in the Daily Mail for heaven’s sake, who have urged readers to start work on their new conservatory with the news that the FTSE100 enjoyed its best month in 6 years during April as improving financial stocks pushed up the index of the UK's top firms ...
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Tags: graduate careers at Barclays, graduate careers in finance
Good news abounds: even in the Daily Mail for heaven’s sake, who have urged readers to start work on their new conservatory with the news that the FTSE100 enjoyed its best month in 6 years during April as improving financial stocks pushed up the index of the UK's top firms ...
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Tags: graduate careers at Barclays, graduate careers in finance
New Rich List shows credit crunch has hit us all
Good news stories are few and far between right now: Citigroup has made a profit; Morrison’s coffers are up 7%; and (given our love of watching the mighty fall) the number of billionaires on earth has fallen by 30%! It’s the first time the billionaire’s club has shrunk in size ...
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Tags: entrepreneurs, Forbes Rich List 2009, making money, Publishing
Good news stories are few and far between right now: Citigroup has made a profit; Morrison’s coffers are up 7%; and (given our love of watching the mighty fall) the number of billionaires on earth has fallen by 30%! It’s the first time the billionaire’s club has shrunk in size ...
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Tags: entrepreneurs, Forbes Rich List 2009, making money, Publishing
UCL, recession and employability and good thinking
Give a cheer to University College London for their recession busting offer for this year’s graduates – a discount on all postgraduate courses of £1,000! UCL, and other universities such as the LSE and City University are taking employability and the challenges graduates face in finding a job vacancy or ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Give a cheer to University College London for their recession busting offer for this year’s graduates – a discount on all postgraduate courses of £1,000! UCL, and other universities such as the LSE and City University are taking employability and the challenges graduates face in finding a job vacancy or ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Centrica create 1,500 green energy jobs
Here’s something to put a smile on your face for the weekend. Not that. Centrica, or British Gas to you and me, is set to create 1,500 new jobs as a kick-start to plans to invest £15bn by 2020 to ramp up its presence in the 'green energy’ market. I ...
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Tags: Careers in energy, jobs in with green credentials
Here’s something to put a smile on your face for the weekend. Not that. Centrica, or British Gas to you and me, is set to create 1,500 new jobs as a kick-start to plans to invest £15bn by 2020 to ramp up its presence in the 'green energy’ market. I ...
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Tags: Careers in energy, jobs in with green credentials
Deal with it: graduate job vacancies down 5.4%
Right, here it is: the number of vacancies for graduates this year is expected to be down for the first time in 6 years. The latest bi-annual survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters shows they didn’t know what they were talking about last summer when then predicted a rise ...
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Tags: Graduate career prospects; current job climate for grad
Right, here it is: the number of vacancies for graduates this year is expected to be down for the first time in 6 years. The latest bi-annual survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters shows they didn’t know what they were talking about last summer when then predicted a rise ...
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Tags: Graduate career prospects; current job climate for grad
Nepotism and no-pay stops some grads getting dream jobs
Companies that employ unpaid interns; use the children of staff to do menial tasks are “part of a scam that disfigures and damages Britain.” So says someone I’ve long thought would be tedious company, journalist Johann Hari. He points out though that for many students leaving university, getting a foot ...
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Tags: internships and placements, news and publishing, pay and salary, The Independent, work experience for students and graduates
Companies that employ unpaid interns; use the children of staff to do menial tasks are “part of a scam that disfigures and damages Britain.” So says someone I’ve long thought would be tedious company, journalist Johann Hari. He points out though that for many students leaving university, getting a foot ...
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Tags: internships and placements, news and publishing, pay and salary, The Independent, work experience for students and graduates
Aldi offer best graduate package. Official.
Last week, we all reached for the large bottle of aspirin; not because Lucy Pinder got voted off Big Brother, but the High Fliers Research reported graduate intake is to be cut across the board by 17%. But hats off to Aldi who piped up that they will be offering ...
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Tags: Food and Drink, good graduate package, Graduate earnign prospects, Retail, sales, Supermarkets
Last week, we all reached for the large bottle of aspirin; not because Lucy Pinder got voted off Big Brother, but the High Fliers Research reported graduate intake is to be cut across the board by 17%. But hats off to Aldi who piped up that they will be offering ...
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Tags: Food and Drink, good graduate package, Graduate earnign prospects, Retail, sales, Supermarkets
Advice and perspective on current graduate job market
The BBC are covering the graduate slump nicely and have posted up a Q&A session on the topic. Here’s a synopsis: • What we’re seeing now is reminiscent of the early 1980s, '90s and in 2002/3 (the dot com bust), according to Graduate Prospects. • Don’t panic – there are still jobs out there, ...
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Tags: Advice for graduates looking for a job; advice on how t
The BBC are covering the graduate slump nicely and have posted up a Q&A session on the topic. Here’s a synopsis: • What we’re seeing now is reminiscent of the early 1980s, '90s and in 2002/3 (the dot com bust), according to Graduate Prospects. • Don’t panic – there are still jobs out there, ...
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Tags: Advice for graduates looking for a job; advice on how t
Best job in the world: apply now
Tourism officials in Australia want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast in what they are calling “the best job in the world.” For a six-month salary of £70k candidates need no formal qualifications and will be required to swim, snorkel, dive and sail while living ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Australia, Leisure and Tourism, see the world, tourism jobs for graduates, travel
Tourism officials in Australia want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast in what they are calling “the best job in the world.” For a six-month salary of £70k candidates need no formal qualifications and will be required to swim, snorkel, dive and sail while living ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Australia, Leisure and Tourism, see the world, tourism jobs for graduates, travel
Christmas Day is now an online shopping favourite
The winners in the current retail space are those that peddle goods for next to nothing (Aldi); have staff that can help you rather than shuffle around like the living dead (I’m talking abut you Currys) or have a clear, innovative online offering (asos). No surprise the online retailers are ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: fashion and clothing, John Lewis graduate scheme, Online shopping, Retail
The winners in the current retail space are those that peddle goods for next to nothing (Aldi); have staff that can help you rather than shuffle around like the living dead (I’m talking abut you Currys) or have a clear, innovative online offering (asos). No surprise the online retailers are ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: fashion and clothing, John Lewis graduate scheme, Online shopping, Retail
Primark supplier under investigation
A clothing supplier to Primark is under investigation for allegedly using illegal workers and paying staff less than the minimum wage. TNS Knitwear, which supplies 20,000 garments to Primark every week, has been accused of employing illegal immigrants from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan and paying some workers £3 per hour, ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Clothing and fashion, Primark expand to create more jobs, Retail, work abroad with Primark
A clothing supplier to Primark is under investigation for allegedly using illegal workers and paying staff less than the minimum wage. TNS Knitwear, which supplies 20,000 garments to Primark every week, has been accused of employing illegal immigrants from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan and paying some workers £3 per hour, ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Clothing and fashion, Primark expand to create more jobs, Retail, work abroad with Primark
Two retail brands start 09 in spectacular style
A good start to 2009 from my two favourite brands: Dandy outfitter Liberty has stuck two sartorial fingers up at expectations with Christmas sales the best on record thanks to tourists coming over and taking advantage of the pound. Waitrose too saw a 41% surge in trading. Waitrose's owner, John ...
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Tags: fashion, Food and Drink, Grandauate careers opportunities at Liberty, Retail, Supermarkets
A good start to 2009 from my two favourite brands: Dandy outfitter Liberty has stuck two sartorial fingers up at expectations with Christmas sales the best on record thanks to tourists coming over and taking advantage of the pound. Waitrose too saw a 41% surge in trading. Waitrose's owner, John ...
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Tags: fashion, Food and Drink, Grandauate careers opportunities at Liberty, Retail, Supermarkets
All eyes on Obama to turn global economy around
It’s fair to say our current woes began thanks to the USA and the sub-prime mortgage fiasco where banks took on debt people could never pay back if times got tough. So while Darling the Badger is committing this country to the sort of debt I run up at the club ...
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Tags: Banking and Finance, Credit Crunch, Global economy, Graduate job interview talking point, Recession
It’s fair to say our current woes began thanks to the USA and the sub-prime mortgage fiasco where banks took on debt people could never pay back if times got tough. So while Darling the Badger is committing this country to the sort of debt I run up at the club ...
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Tags: Banking and Finance, Credit Crunch, Global economy, Graduate job interview talking point, Recession
This week’s winners for a secure job…
Sales mean profit, profit means money, money means job security. So who’s looking like a horse with legs: Obviously the oil companies are swimming in profits, but that will drop as the price of oil does; we saw the recession given a superb bloody nose by big brand owner Reckitt ...
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Tags: gaduate jobs in retail, graduate jobs in transportation, Graduates jobs in energy, jobs in manufacturing
Sales mean profit, profit means money, money means job security. So who’s looking like a horse with legs: Obviously the oil companies are swimming in profits, but that will drop as the price of oil does; we saw the recession given a superb bloody nose by big brand owner Reckitt ...
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Tags: gaduate jobs in retail, graduate jobs in transportation, Graduates jobs in energy, jobs in manufacturing
Reckitt Benckiser: Wot credit crunch?!
We normally don’t give much notice to share prices and profit forecasts here, but when the world’s in recession they are a useful barometer to seeing where your career path might start securely. All the oil companies are expected to report monster profits this week, but already we’ve seen under-the-sink ...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Tags: Graduate jobs at Reckitt Benckiser, High Street Brands, pharmaceuticals
We normally don’t give much notice to share prices and profit forecasts here, but when the world’s in recession they are a useful barometer to seeing where your career path might start securely. All the oil companies are expected to report monster profits this week, but already we’ve seen under-the-sink ...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Tags: Graduate jobs at Reckitt Benckiser, High Street Brands, pharmaceuticals
Other “Money Matters” this week…
Liverpool estate agent starts nailing up boards reading “Rent Dogder lives here” on properties where the tenants have fallen behind on their payments… Lend him a fiver: steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal estimated to have lost $21.4bn in the fluctuating markets this week… Five-years of legal wrangles and appeals conclude with Canadian Border ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, Mentor for the working world, Talking Points for Graduate Career Job Interviews
Liverpool estate agent starts nailing up boards reading “Rent Dogder lives here” on properties where the tenants have fallen behind on their payments… Lend him a fiver: steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal estimated to have lost $21.4bn in the fluctuating markets this week… Five-years of legal wrangles and appeals conclude with Canadian Border ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, Mentor for the working world, Talking Points for Graduate Career Job Interviews
Aldi and Morrisons close gap on competition
As the credit crunch forces shoppers to decide what supermarket to get into bed with, the sector has been see-sawing all week: reliable boy-friend Waitrose felt the pinch as mother company John Lewis saw profits fall by over a third; meanwhile bit of rough Morrisons picked up an extra 500,000 ...
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Tags: careers at John Lewis, jobs at Aldi, jobs at Morrisons, Retail, Supermarket careers
As the credit crunch forces shoppers to decide what supermarket to get into bed with, the sector has been see-sawing all week: reliable boy-friend Waitrose felt the pinch as mother company John Lewis saw profits fall by over a third; meanwhile bit of rough Morrisons picked up an extra 500,000 ...
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Tags: careers at John Lewis, jobs at Aldi, jobs at Morrisons, Retail, Supermarket careers
Gap year prepares you for world of work
The gap year is seen as offering a taste of adventure before going to university or settling down to the world of work, and many "gappers" are opting to learn new skills, increasing their future employment prospects in the process. Just as well, the average gap year now costs more ...
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Tags: Gap year financial advice, good ideas for preparing for a gap year, managing money overseas
The gap year is seen as offering a taste of adventure before going to university or settling down to the world of work, and many "gappers" are opting to learn new skills, increasing their future employment prospects in the process. Just as well, the average gap year now costs more ...
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Tags: Gap year financial advice, good ideas for preparing for a gap year, managing money overseas
Talk about the future with Google
As Google hits ten years, so we learn "Internet search has just gotten started." Or so claims the verbally-challenged Marissa Mayer, Google's head of search products and their 22nd employee (nice house). Search engines are gearing up to be more of a friend, or family butler, or a psychotic ex, ...
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Tags: cloud computing, Google job interview tips, Graduate careers with Google, the furure of internet search
As Google hits ten years, so we learn "Internet search has just gotten started." Or so claims the verbally-challenged Marissa Mayer, Google's head of search products and their 22nd employee (nice house). Search engines are gearing up to be more of a friend, or family butler, or a psychotic ex, ...
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Tags: cloud computing, Google job interview tips, Graduate careers with Google, the furure of internet search
M&S working culture called into question
Quick history: a long-serving member of customer loyalty manager at M&S tells the press that his firm is planning to cut their redundancy package. Everyone panics that staff cuts are on the way. M&S confirm that they are cutting back on their severance pay, but claim it is still better ...
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Tags: Careers at M&S, culture at M&S, Staff cuts at M&S, Tony Goode
Quick history: a long-serving member of customer loyalty manager at M&S tells the press that his firm is planning to cut their redundancy package. Everyone panics that staff cuts are on the way. M&S confirm that they are cutting back on their severance pay, but claim it is still better ...
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Tags: Careers at M&S, culture at M&S, Staff cuts at M&S, Tony Goode
Growth at HMV means they’re on track for more jobs
What’s all this. Two days ago we get the news that Universal Music has turned a corner in the fight of downloads verses CDs, and now HMV has seen sales rise for the last 18 weeks – albeit by 5% - thanks in part to an idea to tap into ...
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Tags: HMV growth, job opportunities at HMV, jobs in retail, Music industry, Publishing, working for HMV
What’s all this. Two days ago we get the news that Universal Music has turned a corner in the fight of downloads verses CDs, and now HMV has seen sales rise for the last 18 weeks – albeit by 5% - thanks in part to an idea to tap into ...
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Tags: HMV growth, job opportunities at HMV, jobs in retail, Music industry, Publishing, working for HMV
London is the new Silicon Valley
Here in the UK, about 25% of us bother to use our mobiles to access the internet. So there’s 75% there to grow into…over in India (200m mobile users) the handset is the most used means of getting online. Brit firms are beginning to wake up to this potential, and ...
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Tags: ebuddy, Growth, Internet, IT, job opportunities, Marketing, Mobile, New Products
Here in the UK, about 25% of us bother to use our mobiles to access the internet. So there’s 75% there to grow into…over in India (200m mobile users) the handset is the most used means of getting online. Brit firms are beginning to wake up to this potential, and ...
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Tags: ebuddy, Growth, Internet, IT, job opportunities, Marketing, Mobile, New Products
Lawyers see increase in redundancy enquiries.
When every headline you read is about is about us facing the worst economic climate since the Black Death, some bosses see this as the perfect time to get rid of dead wood staff. No surprises then that Allianz insurance group has said its legal helpline, Lawphone has received a ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: Business Practice, Growth, increase in sales, job losses, law, Legal
When every headline you read is about is about us facing the worst economic climate since the Black Death, some bosses see this as the perfect time to get rid of dead wood staff. No surprises then that Allianz insurance group has said its legal helpline, Lawphone has received a ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: Business Practice, Growth, increase in sales, job losses, law, Legal
Real dragon’s den for women only set up
Calling all women with a smart idea: wealth management firm Addidi (Latin for “we inspire” fact fans) is set to launch an all-female investment club with plans to invest £2m in British start-up firms and small businesses. Addidi Angels is being set up by Addidi's founder, Anna Sofat, who is ...
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Tags: entrepreneur, Funding, Investment, Money, New ideas
Calling all women with a smart idea: wealth management firm Addidi (Latin for “we inspire” fact fans) is set to launch an all-female investment club with plans to invest £2m in British start-up firms and small businesses. Addidi Angels is being set up by Addidi's founder, Anna Sofat, who is ...
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Tags: entrepreneur, Funding, Investment, Money, New ideas
Greenest of the web announced
If someone called Nigel from Nigel’s Eco Store starts dishing out awards, you’d be forgiven for not paying much attention. However he put together a panel of experts from across the media and came up with this weeks Green Web Awards for those companies who are walking the talk when ...
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Tags: Awards, career opportunites, Environment, Green, Greenwash, Online, Talking point, Using IT
If someone called Nigel from Nigel’s Eco Store starts dishing out awards, you’d be forgiven for not paying much attention. However he put together a panel of experts from across the media and came up with this weeks Green Web Awards for those companies who are walking the talk when ...
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Tags: Awards, career opportunites, Environment, Green, Greenwash, Online, Talking point, Using IT
Zara: the world’s favourite label
If you are dangerously thin and a fan or clothes that fall apart at the end of a night out, you undoubtedly shop at Zara. The Spanish fashion chain (owned by Inditex) has seen sales rocket up by 9% which means it has overtaken The Gap as the worlds favourite ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities, fashion, Growth, Retail, Seeing the World, Zara
If you are dangerously thin and a fan or clothes that fall apart at the end of a night out, you undoubtedly shop at Zara. The Spanish fashion chain (owned by Inditex) has seen sales rocket up by 9% which means it has overtaken The Gap as the worlds favourite ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities, fashion, Growth, Retail, Seeing the World, Zara
Tesco empire starts passage to India
Tesco is investing £60m large into branching out into India – not stores as such, but a wholesale cash-and-carry business in Mumbai. Tesco also signed a deal to help the Indian equivalent of Virgin, Tata, develop its hypermarket business from 4 to over 50 stores in 5 years. This isn’t ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: China, Food and Drink, Growth, India, Job opportunites, Retail, Seeing the World, Supermarkets, Tesco
Tesco is investing £60m large into branching out into India – not stores as such, but a wholesale cash-and-carry business in Mumbai. Tesco also signed a deal to help the Indian equivalent of Virgin, Tata, develop its hypermarket business from 4 to over 50 stores in 5 years. This isn’t ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: China, Food and Drink, Growth, India, Job opportunites, Retail, Seeing the World, Supermarkets, Tesco
Irn Bru bys Rbcn, ye ken?
Barely a day goes by when I don't savour the delicious mango, lychee or passionfruit drinks made by Rubicon. Its a match made in heaven then as the manufacturer of day-glo orange, bubblegum, medicine and cancer flavoured, mythical hangover cure Irn Bru, AG Barr has bought the brand for nearly ...
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Growth, Marketing, new jobs, New Products, Retail, sales, Seeing the World
Barely a day goes by when I don't savour the delicious mango, lychee or passionfruit drinks made by Rubicon. Its a match made in heaven then as the manufacturer of day-glo orange, bubblegum, medicine and cancer flavoured, mythical hangover cure Irn Bru, AG Barr has bought the brand for nearly ...
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Growth, Marketing, new jobs, New Products, Retail, sales, Seeing the World
Microsoft all set to start again
I'm not sure which is more newsworthy: the fact that some spying on internal documents from a techy magazine has revealed that Microsoft is planning to replace Windows with a new product; or the fact that the new product is called Midori - it was a whole bottle of Midori ...
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Tags: Growth, IT, IT Job interview, job opportunities, New Products, New prospects, Online
I'm not sure which is more newsworthy: the fact that some spying on internal documents from a techy magazine has revealed that Microsoft is planning to replace Windows with a new product; or the fact that the new product is called Midori - it was a whole bottle of Midori ...
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Tags: Growth, IT, IT Job interview, job opportunities, New Products, New prospects, Online
Uncle Rup chases the Rupee
Not happy that the only thing in my house he hasn’t had a hand in printing on is the toilet paper, Uncle Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (The Times, The Sun, Sky…) plans to invest $100m over the next 12months to start six regional tv channels in India – one of ...
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Tags: Broadcasting, Communication, Growth, India, media, Murdoch, Seeing the World
Not happy that the only thing in my house he hasn’t had a hand in printing on is the toilet paper, Uncle Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (The Times, The Sun, Sky…) plans to invest $100m over the next 12months to start six regional tv channels in India – one of ...
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Tags: Broadcasting, Communication, Growth, India, media, Murdoch, Seeing the World
Ikea latest to launch focused mobile network
Danish-baiting, flat-pack, hotdog monger Ikea will launch a mobile phone business this week in a tie-up with T-Mobile, who will provide pre-pay services. The new service, Mobile Family is aimed at the 1.4 million people on the Ikea loyalty programme. To kick start the service the firm will give each of its 9,500 ...
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Tags: Communications, Growth, Ikea, job opportunities, mobiles, New ideas, Phones, Retail
Danish-baiting, flat-pack, hotdog monger Ikea will launch a mobile phone business this week in a tie-up with T-Mobile, who will provide pre-pay services. The new service, Mobile Family is aimed at the 1.4 million people on the Ikea loyalty programme. To kick start the service the firm will give each of its 9,500 ...
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Tags: Communications, Growth, Ikea, job opportunities, mobiles, New ideas, Phones, Retail
Oil firms report huge profits - get in there!
Keeping up with those turning a profit in trying times, and with the price of fuel right now, its no huge surprise to learn the oil companies have been raking it in – and how: Greenpeace favourite Exxon Mobil made profits of £11.68bn between April and June, breaking its own ...
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Tags: BP, career opportunities, Energy, Environment, Growth, Investment, Oil, profits, Shell
Keeping up with those turning a profit in trying times, and with the price of fuel right now, its no huge surprise to learn the oil companies have been raking it in – and how: Greenpeace favourite Exxon Mobil made profits of £11.68bn between April and June, breaking its own ...
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Tags: BP, career opportunities, Energy, Environment, Growth, Investment, Oil, profits, Shell
Tesco shake up banking industry
With banks firing and crying and moaning and balling, its no wonder that it takes someone from traditionally outside that sector to tear it up: Tesco Personal Finance was a joint venture between the supermercardo and the Royal Bank of Scotland. But the former has bought the latter out now ...
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Banking, Finance, Growth, new jobs, opportunities, Retail, Supermarkets
With banks firing and crying and moaning and balling, its no wonder that it takes someone from traditionally outside that sector to tear it up: Tesco Personal Finance was a joint venture between the supermercardo and the Royal Bank of Scotland. But the former has bought the latter out now ...
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Banking, Finance, Growth, new jobs, opportunities, Retail, Supermarkets
Diesel buy into V&R fashion house
London is a buzz with secretive fey avant-garde Dutch fashion couple Viktor and Rolf; their show at the Barbican Art gallery is drawing in the vapid and pretentious alike. Good timing then to announce that the boss and founder of clothes brand Diesel, a certain Renzo Russo, has bought the ...
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Tags: Clothes, fashion, Growth, new jobs, New opportunities, Retail, Talking point
London is a buzz with secretive fey avant-garde Dutch fashion couple Viktor and Rolf; their show at the Barbican Art gallery is drawing in the vapid and pretentious alike. Good timing then to announce that the boss and founder of clothes brand Diesel, a certain Renzo Russo, has bought the ...
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Tags: Clothes, fashion, Growth, new jobs, New opportunities, Retail, Talking point
Entrepreneur’s look to German football terraces…
It transpires that The German Bundesliga isn’t just the nickname of a working girl I met in Hamburg last weekend, but a low German football league. It’s become an interesting barometer of modern times as hordes of our own Premier League fans have got so fed up with paying a ...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Tags: Business ideas, football, leisure, Seeing the World, Sport, Talking point, tourism
It transpires that The German Bundesliga isn’t just the nickname of a working girl I met in Hamburg last weekend, but a low German football league. It’s become an interesting barometer of modern times as hordes of our own Premier League fans have got so fed up with paying a ...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Tags: Business ideas, football, leisure, Seeing the World, Sport, Talking point, tourism
Green me up Scotty! Plans for EU’s largest McWind Farm
Wind farms are a good idea, but are often seen as oppressive and unsightly. That’s why the go-ahead has been given to build Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm in Scotland – the hills of South Lanarkshire to be precise, straddling the Glasgow-Carlisle motorway. The farm will be capable of powering ...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Tags: Alternative Fuels, CSR, Energy, Green, job opportunities, Scotland, Wind power
Wind farms are a good idea, but are often seen as oppressive and unsightly. That’s why the go-ahead has been given to build Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm in Scotland – the hills of South Lanarkshire to be precise, straddling the Glasgow-Carlisle motorway. The farm will be capable of powering ...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Tags: Alternative Fuels, CSR, Energy, Green, job opportunities, Scotland, Wind power
Boots accused of holding back supplier payment
"We are committed to working with our suppliers for our mutual long-term benefit.” So says Boots. Funny then that they have been accused of exploiting those same suppliers to improve their cash flow. In English what that means is they wrote to suppliers saying that invoices would be paid up to ...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Tags: , pharmaceutical, Reail, Small Businesses, Talking point
"We are committed to working with our suppliers for our mutual long-term benefit.” So says Boots. Funny then that they have been accused of exploiting those same suppliers to improve their cash flow. In English what that means is they wrote to suppliers saying that invoices would be paid up to ...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Tags: , pharmaceutical, Reail, Small Businesses, Talking point
25-30 year olds: most unfulfilled at work
Vodafone have done a survey to get some press space, so let’s indulge them. Their findings? Older employees are 'happier at work.' Seven out of 10 workers aged over 50 said they felt fulfilled compared with half of 25 to 31-year-olds. The research, based on a survey of 3,800 people, ...
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Tags: Age, happiness at work, right career, work life balance
Vodafone have done a survey to get some press space, so let’s indulge them. Their findings? Older employees are 'happier at work.' Seven out of 10 workers aged over 50 said they felt fulfilled compared with half of 25 to 31-year-olds. The research, based on a survey of 3,800 people, ...
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Tags: Age, happiness at work, right career, work life balance
Co-op to buy Somerfield
The Co-op always has something good to say it seems, and now the UK's fifth largest supermarket chain, has agreed to buy rival Somerfield – for £1.57bn, bringing to an end a company that started in 1875. Yes, they had Chavs then too. Co-op Group remember is a mutual – ...
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Growth, Investment, job opportunities, Retail, Supermarkets
The Co-op always has something good to say it seems, and now the UK's fifth largest supermarket chain, has agreed to buy rival Somerfield – for £1.57bn, bringing to an end a company that started in 1875. Yes, they had Chavs then too. Co-op Group remember is a mutual – ...
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Growth, Investment, job opportunities, Retail, Supermarkets
