Having weathered the last few years, a number of businesses that I’m working with are now making decisions to re-visit their business strategy and where the main goal had been to maintain the status quo, they are now looking for growth. They understand the need to change what they’re doing and how, but the first […]
Joe Rafferty: Pay Attention! (Or the art of concentrating)
“If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.” [Serena Williams] Some people, like me, have no difficulties at all in concentrating. In my case I suspect this is down to the fact that I grew up as part of a large family. Studying for exams amidst a […]
Social media – spy, judge and jury
The hire of tomorrow is doing, and has done, nothing different in their personal lives to the hiring manager of today, says Gareth Jones, Partner, Chief Solutions Architect at The Chemistry Group. No wonder 60% of jobseekers feel it is inappropriate for recruiters to check out their social media profiles. But it’s time to wake up and smell […]