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I’m working from home – not skiving
Last summer after 10 years at my previous company I decided for various reasons that it was time for a change, a daily commute of over an hour each way, leaving the house at 6:30am and returning home, via picking children up from childcare, at around 6pm was a big...
Scattergun applications are on the rise!
There are a lot of positives about the use of technology when job hunting. It’s so easy, you can apply for a job at the click of a button from the comfort of home. You can upload your CV and away you go! However, if you’re one of the many who need to sign up for...
Damaged goods or guardian angel – why redeployment goes wrong
Over the past three years many organisations have been faced with the challenge of how to move people across organisations – frequently as the result of re-organisation and redundancy programmes. This is the reality of redeployment. At its simplest it means moving...
Naked celebrities and pre-employment screening: they may have more in common than you think…
Earlier this year the CIPD asked me to be part of a panel at an event on pre-employment screening. Both at that event, and many times since, the hot topic of conversation has been the role of social media, if any, in screening applicants for jobs. However I think this...
AFAIK English is still our official language
There’s been a slow but very noticeable trend going on in my inbox. And it is what I describe as the “invasion of the text messagers”. People who think its ok to send you very short, abrupt emails that clearly owe their origins to SMS and Twitter. They think they are...
I’m working from home – not skiving
Last summer after 10 years at my previous company I decided for various reasons that it was time for a change, a daily commute of over an hour each way, leaving the house at 6:30am and returning home, via picking children up from childcare, at around 6pm was a big...
Scattergun applications are on the rise!
There are a lot of positives about the use of technology when job hunting. It’s so easy, you can apply for a job at the click of a button from the comfort of home. You can upload your CV and away you go! However, if you’re one of the many who need to sign up for...
Damaged goods or guardian angel – why redeployment goes wrong
Over the past three years many organisations have been faced with the challenge of how to move people across organisations – frequently as the result of re-organisation and redundancy programmes. This is the reality of redeployment. At its simplest it means moving...
Naked celebrities and pre-employment screening: they may have more in common than you think…
Earlier this year the CIPD asked me to be part of a panel at an event on pre-employment screening. Both at that event, and many times since, the hot topic of conversation has been the role of social media, if any, in screening applicants for jobs. However I think this...
AFAIK English is still our official language
There’s been a slow but very noticeable trend going on in my inbox. And it is what I describe as the “invasion of the text messagers”. People who think its ok to send you very short, abrupt emails that clearly owe their origins to SMS and Twitter. They think they are...