Thursday, August 6th, 2009 - career coaching, career management, contract negotiation, employment, europe, immigration, job offers, job search, professionalism, recruitment, sunday thoughts

Career Management: Liverpool FC midfield

As a Liverpool FC supporter of some years standing – I was at Junior school in the 1970s, my local team Bristol Rovers weren’t doing too well in the third division, and there was this wonderful team which played passing football and won everything – the recent trails and tribulations surrounding [...]

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 - HMRC, economics, education, employment, europe, government jobs, immigration, job search, job seeking, minimum wage, politics, recruitment, regulation, sunday thoughts

UK Budget 2009

photo credit: ErrrLomoDeAtun
Today, UK Chancellor Alastair Darling, presented his budget for 2009/2010, and projections forward, in a package he said would steer the UK through to recovery. The headlines were, according to the BBC:

UK will have to borrow a record £175bn as he admitted the economy faces its worst year since the [...]

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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 - europe, sunday thoughts

Running an employment and recruitment agency can be a stressing job – an even more so when you are dealing with sectors in which the normal wage is the UK minimum wage: which we don’t! Its been my policy since day1 of striking out on my own not to compete with what I call “Hayes [...]

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