The 10 most awful overused opening lines used by students April 21, 2016 Never was the slogan "think different" more appropriate. Students across the country are falling back on hackneyed phrases to get into university, which spells trouble when they go for that first graduate job and head into the big old world of work. a studdy has shown Anyone hiring fresh from uni might already be familiar with these turns [...]
What do you bring to the table? Five tips for negotiating April 21, 2016 Research spanning four decades suggests that most people, in most places, get the skill of negotiation wrong, most of the time. This is costly. Sales people leave potential profit on the table. Buyers don’t get the best supplier terms. Colleagues from different departments fall out over resource allocation or project priorities. It needn’t be like [...]
Pitch perfect: How to make sure you always write a killer job ad April 20, 2016 Getting the right people into your company usually starts with getting the right messages into your job ads. Yet many of the ads we see are just ropey rehashings of the same old corporate clichés. They’ll get you a few applicants, sure. But the best applicants could be overlooking you completely. We think it’s time [...]
UK companies looking outside the office for new leaders, but they’re not staying once they get there April 19, 2016 UK companies are more likely to take their hunt for a leader outside the office compared with their overseas counterparts, research released today has found. According to the study by Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting business, over half (58 per cent) of chief executives appointed in the UK last year were external candidates, compared with a global [...]
Caught on camera: Video etiquette for the office April 19, 2016 The expression “may you live in interesting times” is said to be an English translation of a Chinese curse. When it comes to moments caught on camera, what is interesting to some can be damaging to others. From the leaking of the script for Game of Thrones and Walmart’s training video to prevent workers from [...]
RSM International boss Jean Stephens: Take the emotion out of equality and remember the facts – more diverse businesses just do better April 18, 2016 Jean Stephens is a woman who is passionate about diversity but, from time to time, she thinks it would be better to suck the emotion out of the often explosive subject and just face the facts: improving diversity in the boardroom could improve profits too. "Everyone has to embrace the fact that, by having diverse opinions [...]
These are the optimum hours you should be working in middle age April 18, 2016 Ever feel like you're working too much? You'll love what these scientists have to say, especially if you're already over the age of 40. Boffins down under have identified the optimal number of hours we should be working in middle age, and beyond, to keep us sufficiently stimulated, but not so overwhelmed that we become [...]
Unconscious bias: What it is and why you should do something about it April 18, 2016 The issue of unconscious bias is featuring increasingly prominently in the thinking of leading organisations when it comes to their company culture, people management strategies, and how they formulate their policies and procedures. But what exactly is unconscious bias? Unconscious bias describes those prejudices each of us inherently has which exist outside of our conscious [...]
Quantum Leap: Harriet Green talks Brexit, dreadnoughts and knives an atom thick with laser entrepreneur Graeme Malcolm April 18, 2016 In the world’s most accurate clock, which lives in Boulder, Colorado and can count 0.0000000000000001 seconds at a time, there is an M Squared laser. “It might not seem important, but timing is really vital,” says Graeme Malcolm, founder of the Glasgow-based laser company. “When the markets crashed in 2008, people went to work out [...]
Not switching jobs has cost younger workers on their pay packet April 18, 2016 Staying put in the same job for too long has cost younger workers on their potential pay packet, a report out today has found. The study by the Resolution Foundation discovered that, had younger workers continued to switch jobs at the pace witnessed in the early 2000s, they would now be earning 30p more per hour [...]