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Saving face or saving money?
Understanding what something’s worth is never as straightforward as it might be. Yes, there’s supply and demand, but there’s at least three extra dimensions in Beijing. Distance, Haggling and Face. Distance is a factor everywhere, of course, as convenience always comes at a premium – but when nipping to the shop at the next corner […]
Job hunting in a recession
August 28, 2010
Why it’s important for employers to engage with candidates who, without having built an affinity with the employer brand, may otherwise be simply taking the first role that comes their way. Ace Research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvGraIa2u8 And, of course, it’s important for job hunters to make a good impression too – bespoke suit anyone? http://www.highandmighty.co.uk/shop/page?pageId=7471
Degrees with benefits?
December 30, 2009
According to research by Dr Anthony Hesketh at Lancaster University, graduates “pay for themselves 20 months from their start date and by their third year, mid-sized graduate recruitment and training programmes – those which involve the hiring of 170 graduates – generate a £5.30 return for every £1 invested.” But how long does it take […]
The end of experience?
October 30, 2009
That someone can honestly be quoted as saying “Staff don’t need to retain information any more, they just need to go somewhere where they can reference it” is perhaps one of the most horrifying sentences I have yet come across in the world of employment and education. Staff don’t need to retain information any more, […]
A perfect talent storm
September 9, 2009
Markets can be funny things but I have to admit that I am baffled by the current impact of supply and demand on estate agency. One the one hand, the property market has shrunk due to the lack of credit, many estate agents have been laid off, as with many other industries, and yet, as […]
Higher Education – cost versus value
August 21, 2009
It’s all well and good for David Lammy to continue to beat a drum for Higher Education but is it not now time to ask what benefit the Government policy of pushing people into University courses, regardless of desire or appropriateness, produces for the individuals or for society? New data from The Push Student Debt […]
A kilo of soup
August 19, 2009
Does anybody really need a kilo of soup? Eat has treated me very well of late but I can’t help wonder why, having a 12oz and 16oz offering, they felt the need to introduce another size up – and went for 32oz? Is there something fundamentally offensive about 20oz or even 24oz? The 32oz portion, […]
Starbucking a trend
August 11, 2009
I really don’t know what to make of Starbucks. Part of me feels that I should get on a high horse and despise them fro being a corporation but, since actions are meant to speak louder than words, I’m not sure I can look past some of theirs so easily. For a start, they sell […]
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