One of the things I hear most from my clients, is the complications they endure in process of employing people and seemingly, always getting let down or persecuted by stressful structured dismissal claims.
The answer to these problems almost always comes at the beginning, with the employer making basic mistakes in the interview process which allow them to ignore gut feeling which, almost without fail, is proven correct.
A common error, ...
I don't know if any of you have been reading about the carnage unfolding in Venezuela? Quite frankly, I wouldn't blame you if you haven't, as it is depressing beyond comprehension.
The 21st Century Socialism (Chavismo) programme has gone tits up big style and the media are out to find someone to blame as the conspiracy theories from the left and the right mount up, with some examples of contradictory statements to end all contradictory ...
As a bit of a follow up to my recent blog about the pay scandal at the BBC, one of my greatest fans, *Cottage Colin Norton, wrote to me about the biggest female earner at the BBC, Claudia Winkleman.
Now, I have no right to comment on the talent scale of Ms Winkleman because, such is my apathy to mainstream TV, I don't really know what she does, some dancing or something of the like, I think.
What I do know now, thanks to Colin, is that she ...
Such is our race to nuclear oblivion, news comes and goes at a rate that is so fast these days it is hard to keep up. Is it just me or does the alleged BBC pay scandal already seem like it was about 10 years ago?
The so called scandal centred around women at the BBC getting paid less than men, with the Beeb taking a good pasting in the press. As you would expect, the stick they received came from media organisations seeking to destroy what ...
I bumped into a chap out on his push bike when I was walking the dog today. He was one of those cyclists who looked like he meant business, slender in build and equipped with lightweight rucksacks and waterproofed ordnance survey maps that you have to remortgage your house to purchase.
Anyway, he had ridden from Shawford near Winchester and was heading out towards Micheldever when I bumped into him, rather conveniently, outside the ...