It can be costly to hire new employees that have the desired skill-sets; taking on a new employee usually involves interviewing several or more candidates, and trying to match them to the job role the company is advertising on job boards, in the paper, word of mouth, or through friend of a friend associations. Employers […]
We know now that people are going to get drunk at your Christmas party. You can’t prevent it, you can’t do anything about it but you need to learn how to handle people at the party who are more drunk than you and, perhaps most importantly, how to handle yourself if you have had a […]
Going into the Christmas party season it is extremely important for everyone to know a few things about Christmas parties. More specifically you need to know a few things about etiquette at Christmas parties; whether it is your first at your new company, your 10th at the same company or your first ever Christmas party […]
I have now worked in numerous locations. I have seen numerous ways in which people are disciplined and numerous ways that people hand out discipline to their employees. It is a fine balance between commanding authority, punishing things that are seen as out of line, but also maintaining some kind of fairness to that particular […]
I have been working on social media accounts for a long time now. I have seen them done in house and I have seen them done in outsourced environments as well. There are pros and cons to each, but today I wanted to talk about how outsourcing your social media accounts to other companies works […]
The imagined community. It is something that I have thought a lot about since my time at University where we studied critical theory and analysis. This is a very interesting theory about how people enjoy being in a community, even if it’s pretend. Take a look at a restaurant; we go into those that have […]
A lot of things work quickly in one of the world’s most famous capitals. The cars are faster, the tubes are non stop, the people all walk a bit faster and their minds are constantly on the move. Companies are making deals, meeting people and getting things done. Whereas elsewhere people might be considering deals […]