If you’re considering a career change, chances are you’ve been refreshing your professional profile not only among your peers at the golf club and day spa but online too. That’s because social media is the front-of-house face not only for businesses, large and small, but their senior managers and executives. There are, however, pitfalls, traps […]
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We’ve entered a brave new world of automation, augmented reality and, in some places, autocracy. While this has sent some nervous CEOs into a mild panic, the smartest managers are already looking at ways to future proof their employees – and, of course, their company’s bottom line. Training and development is the key area where
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Scotland has a well-earned reputation for having given the world its best Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Steel Fabricators, Systems and Hardware Engineers. Now, the nation that gave the industry pioneering innovators such as James Watt and Thomas Telford, can proudly boast another feat of engineering. Hywind Scotland, the first floating wind farm in the world,
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The importance of a gut feeling can never be underestimated – this is especially true before boarding a long-haul flight. And often your gut can be your greatest ally when it comes to deciding to start a new engineering job. Those butterflies in the belly are nature’s way of helping us survive and, although we’re
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We live in a world where everything we want can be at our fingertips in less time than it takes Granny Ina to take out her curlers. Need a kettle? Steam in online. Search. Order. Lo and behold, a kettle arrives at your home. Or maybe you still like to do your shopping the old-fashioned
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In the words of Charles Dickens – yes the fellow who penned A Tale of Two Cities – “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. What the dickens was he talking about? Well apparently these famous opening lines hint at his novel’s central tension between love and family, on the
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The recruitment industry is focused on always getting the very best people for the job. Like a Canadian Mountie, always gets his man (or indeed woman). HR meanwhile aims to provide a working environment that ensures those very best people stay in the job or get promoted. Like most partnerships this one also needs constant
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It’s no surprise Granny Ina has begun looking more closely at vacancies on s1jobs. A report suggests our economy could be boosted by £80 billion every year if we employed as many mature workers as they do in Sweden. Grampa Jack is equally happy at the prospect of a return to employment – although we
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There’s no magic formula for successful Customer Service. If there were, there’d be no room left in the world for Mr Angry or Mrs Moan – and no need for true professionals who can turn any situation into a win-win: a win for the customer and a win for their company. Of course, while some
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There’s a famous line in an old Kevin Costner movie, Field of Dreams: “If you build it, he will come.” This is all about our man Kevin creating a baseball field to attract the ghost of a famous player. While there isn’t much demand in Scotland for baseball diamonds – or for ghosts, come to
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