Former ballroom dancers light a candle on international trade May 15, 2023 | Sponsored In 2001 the Danish-born couple set up Sebnini, which specialises in luxury fragranced candles and diffusers. It has crowned recent growth in overseas sales with a King’s Award for international trade. The inspiration began when they started bringing candles for their own enjoyment back from Denmark to the UK. Although candles and scent diffusers are [...]
Podium Pet Products: Achieving in business for King and country May 15, 2023 | Sponsored Carina Evans has achieved great success in multiple arenas, including representing the UK as part of the GBR Bob Skeleton Team and serving her country in the British armed forces. Her greatest business accomplishment has been with her company, Podium Pet Products, which has won both the Queen’s Award in 2016 and the King’s Award for [...]
Mortgages: Are 100 per cent no deposit loans about to make a comeback? May 9, 2023 One of the UK’s largest building societies is considering launching a no deposit, or 100 per cent loan to value mortgage. Mortgages which do not need a downpayment, or deposit, were phased out after the financial crisis. Although 100 per cent or zero deposit mortgages have been available since 2009, lenders will only offer them [...]
What To Do If You’re Worried AI Will Take Your Job May 9, 2023 | Sponsored Are you worried you’ll be replaced (professionally at least) by a robot in the near future? If so, you’re not alone. Thanks to the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, chatbots and their capabilities to not only mimic human behaviour and thought processes, but in some instances, surpass them, have been swiftly propelled into sharp focus. At [...]
Is Justice the new DE&I: Has the diversity discussion evolved? May 2, 2023 | Sponsored DiverCity® Podcast · Is Justice the new DE&I: Has the diversity discussion evolved? In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Dorien Nuñez, Speaker, Author, Researcher, Consultant and Principal and Co-Founder of The OMNIResearch Group and Paris Prince, Director – Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for The Intentional Endowments Network. Both from the United [...]
Women Want Equal Progression Opportunities At Work May 2, 2023 | Sponsored Does the company you work for promote women at the same rate it promotes male counterparts? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re among the minority. That’s because women still only make up 30% of leadership roles in the UK. This is despite an active push by the government to highlight this issue via the FTSE [...]
Over 50s and retirees want to work more, so long as it’s flexible April 28, 2023 A lack of flexible job opportunities is keeping over 50s out of the workforce and preventing retirees from returning to employment according to a survey. Insurance giant Zurich UK found nearly one in five UK adults over 50 were deterred from applying for new jobs because of a lack of flexible working opportunities. Timewise found [...]
Most businesses say hiring is inefficient – that needs to change April 26, 2023 | Sponsored The UK labour market is at an interesting juncture. After a ferocious post-Covid jobs boom that sent demand for workers into overdrive, we’re now seeing signs that employers have taken their foot off the hiring pedal. That’s not to say demand has dried up. Far from it. Britain still has more than 1.1m vacancies according [...]
How your firm can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals April 24, 2023 | Sponsored The United Nations unveiled the Sustainable Develop Goals as a roadmap to a greener, fairer future – but that plan is in danger of losing its way. “Our progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has faltered and even gone into reverse on some important targets,” warned UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in March. Companies [...]
Would You Become A Salary Nomad For More Money? April 24, 2023 | Sponsored Coronavirus changed many things for many people, and the way that we work was perhaps the most impacted. And the digital nomad, an employment trend that had previously been slightly scornfully reserved for a type of gig economy worker, became a legitimate alternative to the traditional 9-5. While the term has been in use since [...]