What connects freshwater pearl mussels in the Tay, the ecology of peat in Glen Garry and a cairn near Moy that marks the spot Hanoverian forces set out to try to capture Bonnie Prince Charlie? The answer is they’ve all come under scrutiny from experts working with the engineering team that is masterminding the dualling […]
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Over the past few weeks huge cast stone slabs have been hung on the exterior of the new V&A Design Museum in Dundee. Designed to resemble the cliffs along the north east coast, there are 2466 of them, weighing up to 2.5 tonnes each, on the end wall where the building hangs over the edge
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Life’s all about making connections – with friends, lovers, colleagues, or on the 8.30 to Glasgow Queen Street. But creating a meaningful bond with someone usually takes a fair bit of time and effort. And time’s the one thing call and contact centre workers don’t always have on their side. Working with one eye on
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Roll up your sleeves, take a bite out that energy bar and settle in for the summer. If you work in a call or contact centre for any of a range of key services, in summertime the living is anything but easy. In fact, it’s so busy many organisations are scaling up by taking on
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Everyone knows accountants like to keep their eyes on the pennies. We’re not saying you’re tighter than a fishing line – careful would be a better word. And why ever not? If you’re a student accountant, working towards your exams, you won’t have much money to throw around. And when you’ve qualified and on the
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Let’s hear it for the oldest profession in the world. No not that one! We’re talking about accountancy, which can fairly claim to have been around before doctors, dentists or lawyers had even been thought of. How do we know this? From little bits of clay that for over a century puzzled archaeologists working in
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It won’t be very long now until school’s out for summer and for many this means a chance to get a first taste of working life. The Production & Manufacturing sector has long been a favourite target. For some this is because they can earn a good wage and gain work experience before moving on
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It could be line dancing, a martial art or the ukulele: constant repetition is what leads to excellence. Working as a production operator or on an assembly line offers the same zen-like masterclass in control and technique. Practice makes perfect. The downside is some jobs can become monotonous, leading to boredom, distraction and, ultimately, a
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Despite the fact the industry employs men and women of all ages in a wide variety of jobs, onshore as well as offshore, clerical as well as physical, the myth endures that all oil workers are big, butch and thoroughly badass blokes. Nicknames such as roughnecks, roustabouts and worms (inexperienced rig workers who are not
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Can you hear it? No, neither can we. Wait, there it is. It’s just very quiet. Quite often good news in the oil and gas sector is whispered. Which is a shame really because there are happy tales to be told loud and proud. Such as the announcement Scotland’s oil industry now has a brighter
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