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  I’m on on of my rants again I’m afraid. OK so the euro zone is in chaos, the economy isn’t great and it looks as though we will have a few tough years before things get better.  But do you know what?  That’s life. In the good times, every person, every company and every country spent too much. [...]

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I have a personal rule. No matter what my role in any organisation, I always make sure that I do one thing exceptionally well: I always do my best to get back to people. It goes without saying that everyone can become very busy at times. It’s not always possible to return emails or phone [...]

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An Irish charmer, a mad inventor, an overgrown toddler and a sociophobic robot walk into a boardroom. The smell of desperation wafts through the tension-heavy air… no, this isn’t the beginning of an awful joke. It’s the grand finale of the Apprentice. *Cue dramatic Apprentice music This is the part where the four finalists are [...]

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I bought the last copy of The News of The World last Sunday. Not because I supported the paper in any way shape or form but, from a professional point of view, I wanted to own a piece of publishing history. I can’t remember a time in my whole life ( almost half a century)  an instance [...]

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  I was listening, as usual, to the Radio4 Today programme the other day as I was getting ready for work.  I had risen with a feeling of positive anticipation for the business year ahead.  We’d had to work harder than ever in 2010 but our turnover and profit were up on 09 and our work pipeline was looking good [...]

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I was having lunch with an employment journalist recently and we were discussing recent press releases put out by the CIPD. She had just received the release outlining the results of the CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook.  The opening lines of the release state that the report - and I quote : “.. indicates that private sector job [...]

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Ageism?

August 12, 2010 by

We’re always hearing stories about ageism – people in their 50s and 60s struggling to find work because they’re nearing retirement age and people not wanting to hire them. But what about the other way around? I may not look it, but I am in fact 25 (I’d be in the ‘oldies’ section on X-Factor [...]

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A new week, a new rant. (Except it’s my turn this time!) Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera has written another piece which will undoubtedly attract the attention of many businesses and tweeters. It was only a few weeks ago that the HR community was up in arms over his article entitled “Human resources departments – what’s [...]

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