Dive into the archives.

• Best Workplaces in Europe

  The latest report in today’s FT shows the top 100 best workplaces in Europe. Research conducted by Manpower in the UK found that 63% of workers want flexibility and 84% of employees see this as helping retain their best employees.
  Many of the companies mentioned are well know household names, so it’s good to see SME’s [...]

  Posted by Ian on 29 May, 2008 to Recruitment, Retention   

• What is a twitpitch

  You’ve probably heard of elevator pitches and even escalator pitches well the latest craze are ‘twitpitches‘ based on Twitter the wildly successful Web 2.0 micro-blogging tool. A tweet or twitter message has a maximum of 140 characters (a bit like text message) and a twitpitch limits the elevator pitch to 140 characters – brevity and [...]

  Posted by Philip on 28 May, 2008 to Start-up   

• Making new things

  Paul Graham the successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur wrote an insightful post about his design principles for making new things:
  “Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, [...]

  Posted by Philip on 25 May, 2008 to Recruitment, Start-up   

• Success story

   It’s a nice surprise when a customer gives a great testimonial without even asking for it. Well it happened to us with one of our clients PRWD. Paul Rouke describes on his blog how he’s got a star of lead technical architect.

  Posted by Philip on 21 May, 2008 to Recruitment, Start-up   

• Psycuity in the swing

  Rachel Bell is one of the upcoming professional golfers on the Ladies European Tour. Along with Clare Queen they’ve got sponsorship from Psycuity for laptops and mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends & family while on tour. All the best for the season and ’stay in the present’.

  Posted by Philip on 15 May, 2008 to Golf