Follow up any of the construction vacancies on s1jobs and chances are you’ll find a company exploring offsite building work. And who better to ask about this growing sector than Calum Murray? Calum is a Director of CCG (Scotland) Ltd and Chairman of Offsite Solutions Scotland, a consortium of construction firms working with the Scottish […]
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Amy Pickerill has landed what many will consider the dream job of 2018. Readers following our coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent visit to Edinburgh may have noticed Amy standing next to the royal couple as they met well-wishers in the city. She has now been officially named as Private Assistant Secretary, aka
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It’s official. Despite the long dark nights, the freezing weather and forever winning ‘nil points’ at the Eurovision Song Contest, Finland is the happiest country in the world. According to the latest World Happiness Report it beats last year’s victor Norway and is followed by Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland. Sadly, Scotland doesn’t get a mention
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It was Justine Vogt who once said: “Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.” She was right. This business of ensuring complete strangers are happy can sometimes feel more like a vocation than an easy career choice. This is especially true at management level, when even the
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For a man whose brilliant poems and eye-opening artwork suggest too many afternoons in the afternoon sun without a hat, William Blake also had some down-to-earth things to say about life. One of his ruminations is particularly apt for executives thinking how they should better organise their working day. Our Bill opined: “Think in the
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There isn’t a day goes by when the Leader of the Free World doesn’t surprise his fans and astonish his foes with some outrageous policy statement. Often it’s not the content of Mr Trump’s carefully constructed policies – aka tweets – that are astounding. It’s more often the case that the worlds of politics and
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HR is meant to be fun. Forget Human Resources or Human Relations. HR actually stands for Happiness Rules. Why so? Because after all of the employment law lectures, procedural training and staff induction programmes, the best way to recruit, retain and continually motivate employees is to instil a sense of happiness in their workplace. Thankfully,
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In the oil and gas game it’s quite normal to find yourself working long shift patterns: two weeks on, two weeks off; a four and ten (days that is); or if you land a job abroad it could even be a month on then a month off. This is an accepted part of the business
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While businessmen and politicians continue to bump gums about the future of the oil and gas industry in the North Sea – ’twas always thus – we’ve decided to take ourselves off somewhere with a little peace and quiet: an offshore rig. Well, okay so the weather isn’t always peaceful and the sea isn’t always
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Everyone likes to be considered just a little bit different. We don’t mean Lady Gaga dressed in a bin liner with a pineapple on her head different. Just a wee bit unique in the way we are, from the words we choose to the clothes we wear. Life would be exceedingly boring, after all, if
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