Lisa Davenport

The entries are in, the votes have been counted and the judges have spoken. Here is the s1jobs Recruitment Awards shortlist! A big thank you to everyone who entered. This year’s awards had the most, and more importantly, the best entries to date. Competition was very tough! For categories 1-4 the results were decided by […]

The strength of the sales team is just as vital to a company’s overall success as its products or services. As we shake off winter and shiver into the spring of 2015, companies will be looking to hire the best sales people, so it’s important to identify what sectors are gearing up for a big

Hold on to your hods, everyone! Scotland’s construction sector is about to get very busy. Indeed, news in some quarters of its demise have been greatly exaggerated, as the Scottish construction sector grew by 5.5% in December 2014 compared with the same month in 2013. A Office of National Statistics report states that industry output in

As we march together in green wellies and hemp boiler suits towards a more environmentally friendly world, all manner of industries have taken the chance to ask themselves: what can we do too, to help build a more sustainable future? Companies big and small are more than ever considering the ecological impact of their projects

You could be forgiven for thinking that most articles relating to the oil and gas industry today will have three rhyming words: boom, gloom and doom. At s1jobs we like to offer something different. And so here are three brand new rhyming words in a round-up of stories that can’t help but cheer up your

At last there has been some good news for the Scottish oil and gas industry, with the announcement a Scottish Government-backed initiative to encourage new measures in North Sea exploration is, well, in the pipeline. It’s no secret this jobs sector has been subject to its share of setbacks of late. Oil & Gas UK

Did you know that Trinidad and Tobago, having been involved in the business for more than a century, has a rather large oil sector – yet, being a small, two-island nation with a population of only slightly more than a million, anyone working in this field will more than likely know most of their industry

Not everyone can be winner of the Great British Bake Off. Not everyone can create the perfect Beef Wellington to serve with a doff of the old toque blanche to Gordon Ramsay. Truth be told, not all of us dream of being up to our oven gloves in suet and self-raising or having to sweat

THERE’S a once-upon-a-time tale told about Billy Connolly taking a stroll with a girl on a summer’s eve – through Glasgow’s Gallowgate perhaps, a place where they could swap sweet bon mots as they admired the local hoi polloi. The Big Yin’s companion suddenly points out a dapper chap dressed in ensemble leather jacket, snakeskin

What is the definition of an engineer? Answer: someone who solves a problem you didn’t know you had, in a way you don’t understand. So what is the definition of a geoengineer? Answer: someone who is involved in the deliberate large-scale intervention of the Earth’s natural systems to interact climate change. Hmmm, so just the