Ask any Sales Director what they really want for their birthday and it will be a crystal ball. While it may come in handy for choosing the winning Lottery numbers, on a daily basis it would help them in their primary mission: business development. The ability to see into the future, you see, would make […]
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Elsewhere in today’s electronic epistle you can discover all about our friend Aristotle from Greece and how he may well have been the first motivational guru with something valuable and not downright silly to say in the Sales sector. While he didn’t run ideas up flagpoles to see who might salute, his wise words about
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More than any other sector you’ll find here on s1jobs, Sales takes the Wagon Wheel-sized biscuit when it comes to inspirational quotes more likely to make you groan than go get ‘em. “Close a deal and you eat tonight. Forge a relationship and you eat for life.” Yes, that kind of thing. Our personal favourite
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Once up on a time big brains invested all of their time and energy on big questions. Unfortunately, even today, most of us might struggle to comprehend their final answers. In the world of Financial Services and Investment, however, it’s important to possess the kind of inquisitive and analytical mind that relishes the opportunity to
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Summer has only just started in Scotland (we hope!) but elsewhere this year has already been chalked up as the hottest on record. Spain has sizzled, India is baking and in California there is no let-up to the on-going drought. Of course, here at home it has mostly been cold, as we would expect of
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Of all the best bits about metal fabrication we like welding the best: maybe it’s simply the otherworldly heat and light or maybe it’s the Darth Vader mask. Of course, it could be that it reminds us of Jennifer Beals, welder by day, dancer by night, and that unforgettable audition scene in the movie Flashdance.
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BT is to create 700 apprenticeship and 300 graduate jobs across the UK this year, with around 90 apprentices recruited right here in Scotland. More than 30 engineering posts will be up for grabs in BT’s local network business, Openreach, and among the Scottish locations to benefit will be Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A
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The housing bubble is not, more’s the pity, a sub-aqua holiday home for scuba divers but the dreaded term for a potentially explosive rise in house prices. While no-one wants to see a return to the bad old days of price wars and homes placed out of reach of first time buyers, what is certain
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A Contracts Manager is a bit like a football manager, only the players you bring in to help the get job done are called “subbies” not “subs”. While there’s no need for a camel coat and a fedora, you may need a hi-vis vest and a hard hat – and the ability to take control
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There’s something very strange going on in Treigny, France. And apparently they’ve been at it since 1997. The mission? To build a castle using only the techniques of medieval yesteryears. The exact location? Guédelon. The outcome? Well, we’ll need to wait a few more years for that. Guédelon is the world’s biggest experimental archaeological site,
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