Peter Crush

July book reviews

Personal Brand Essence and The Magic BlackBerry

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Diversity - Etonians no longer dominate senior jobs

The increased diversity of the new Parliament puts it on a par with that of the corporate world.

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Interview with Clive Bunyan, HR vice president at Symantec

Just as Symantec's products destroy malevolent PC viruses, its HR vice president, Clive Bunyan, does much the same with HR policies that the company has inherited from its acquisitions - but only the...

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Review of Drive: The surprising Truth of What Motivates Us, by Dan Pink

This book is better at explaining what motivation is than how to improve it, says Sean Howard, vice-president of SHL. But it provides great support and reference points for improving people...

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Company to recruit hot-shot employees with a round of golf

A Southampton-based company will be finding out if applicants are on par by asking them to complete a round of mini golf as the final part of the selection process.

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Staff prepared to up-skill themselves to beat the recession

Nearly three-quarters of employees would give up their free time to undertake work-related training, and more than half would pay for it themselves, according to new research by learning and...

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Record numbers economically inactive

Unemployment has now reached 7.9% (2.47 million) according to latest figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics, and record numbers of Britons are now classed as economically...

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Involvement and Participation Association predicts summer of industrial unrest

In the same week as public-sector staff at Manchester College and Nottinghill Housing Group voted to go on strike, a report by the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA) predicts industrial...

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Work is a pain in the back

Half of employees say they suffer from back pain at least once a month, with more than a third (37%) blaming work as the contributing factor.

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Britons resigned to working longer

Nearly two-thirds of Britons have accepted they will have to delay their retirement because of the pensions black hole.

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Businesses confident of hiring soon

Despite record high unemployment figures released today, businesses say they are cautiously optimistic about hiring.

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Unsuccessful jobseekers often cease to be customers of the company that rejected them

Half of all unsuccessful jobseekers say their recruitment experience was so bad it left them with a negative view of that company, such that 18% of them say they will cease to be a customer in the...

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