Show all Executive & Management jobs across Scotland Agility training is not only awesome fun for dogs, it’s a hoot for humans too. Watching our s1jobs’ faithful friend, Star the Border Collie, go through the hoops – and down a tunnel, and over a bench, and through the weave of poles – has inspired us […]
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Show all Engineering/Technical jobs in Scotland They say where there’s muck there’s brass. Too true! Two years in the making and with a price tag of £100 million, Glasgow’s newest sewer is now officially operational. Water is already flowing through the three-mile tunnel in the South Side of the city. Spearheaded by Scottish Water, the
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Show all Engineering/Technical jobs in Scotland When a real-life Spider-Man scaled four storeys to save a child dangling from a Paris balcony the world watched in amazement. Malian immigrant Mamoudou Gassama’s extraordinary feat of strength and bravery not only earned him French nationality and a job but the admiration of people everywhere – none more
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Show all Education/Teaching jobs across Scotland The first day back after the summer holidays – cue stories about adventures abroad, serious discussions over who has the best new laptop and endless whoops of joy as kids are reunited with classmates after weeks apart (practically forever in a child’s mind). It’s a challenge trying to motivate
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Show all Education/Teaching jobs across Scotland This year’s summer break might have done more than refresh you for the next term in the classroom. It may have opened your eyes to the possibility of using your teaching qualifications to allow you to travel. Are you an art teacher? You could lend your talents to one
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Show all Customer Service jobs across Scotland Customer Service is all about meeting the needs of individuals and there are no fewer than 5.5 million of us here in Scotland alone. So it’s a daily miracle that everyone’s unique requirements can be met. From Granny Ina’s freedom of information request about the number of garden
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Show all Customer Service jobs across Scotland When Tommy Lee Jones turned to his Men In Black sidekick Will Smith and said: “Don’t ever touch the red button!”, well, we knew it was only a matter of time before things went wrong. For some people, life’s red buttons are an irresistible temptation. Just think back
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Show all Construction/Trades jobs across Scotland If you’re a woman in the construction industry and fear some of the vacancies on s1jobs won’t be open to you, think again. This traditionally macho industry is pushing ahead with an equal opportunities agenda that’s the envy of other sectors. In its most recent move to stamp out
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More and more of us are hot desking and it’s not simply a response to this summer’s sweltering heat. In offices where employees work shift patterns, such as in call and contact centres, asking staff to find a new spot every day instead of offering fixed desks is pretty commonplace. Bosses like it because it’s
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Show all Accountancy jobs across Scotland A numbers story made headlines this month when a newspaper profile of a woman’s bid to save for a mortgage drew head scratching from readers. You’d think her annual salary of £70,000 would be more than enough to get a big toe on the property ladder? Apparently not. Despite
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