This week I received an email from a disgruntled candidate. When I say disgruntled, I mean ANGRY! And when I say candidate, I mean someone else’s candidate – I’d never communicated in any way with this person. This person had decided to get in touch regarding a role we were
There’s Bernie Ecclestone, on his RedBull-enhanced Zimmer frame. He’s 84 this year, and wilier than ever. Some say Formula 1 is a dinosaur, but not if you ask Bernie. (He’s worth quite a LOT, by the way). Then there’s Warren Buffett – the Sage of Omaha – and essentially a
Thanks, Sydney Morning Herald, for that photo! Did that just happen? Did the Australian Cricket Team just get all out for 60, and in only 111 deliveries…? They’d have stayed in longer if they just left the ball completely – only 8 of them were on wicket! @rameshsrivats captured the
In most calendar years, our little blue planet’s denizens get to look up into the night sky and see a beautiful full moon 12 times – that is, once a month. However, the lunar month doesn’t quite match up to our rigid structure of calendar months. We humans like to
I moved house last week. T-O-T-A-L nightmare! Live in house Decide to move to new house Buy boxes & pack stuff in them Move boxes Unpack boxes Recycle boxes Live in house… And what’s more, I’ve moved house quite a lot in my time. I reckon either I must
I’m not that old. At least, I don’t think of myself as old. But I learnt to type on a lever Typewriter! Remember the Margin Release key? The machine I had was said to be portable, but that was only because you had a car boot handy to put it
Earlier this week a candidate asked me how long I spend looking at an applicant’s resume. This launched me into my most polished rant about how there is a general conception that recruiters spend almost no time at all actually READING the resume you send them. Apparently we all just
A good friend of mine once suggested a new (and somewhat profound) business idea. It went roughly as follows: 1 – Take busy executives out of their office or boardroom environment 2 – Put them into the back of a van, conveniently stocked with all the ‘fineries’ 3 – Give
When I was a kid, the first time you encountered the word TALENT was usually in music class, or maybe on the sports field… “How talented little Jessica is on the piano, she’s a natural” “Look at those basketball skills. What a Talent!” But cut to 2015 and the word
First, some definitions (thanks google); User Experience (UX) Noun 1. The overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use. “if a website degrades the user experience too much, people will simply
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