December 2008 - Guru Blog

Guru was charmed by the news that 33% of Brits are ruder at this time of year, 11% argue with fellow passengers and 23% drink more alcohol - according to a survey by Tripadvisor . As a likely participant of the survey, the blue-headed wise man was touched that perhaps there were more people like him out there than he originally thought. But the travel...

Befuddled by his own creativity - and copious amounts of Chrismas spirit... hic! - Yours Truly forgot to mention that he's devised a cunning quiz to make sure not only the City robbers receive a Christmas bonus. To win a bumper Fortnum & Mason Christmas hamper simply check out Guru's Christmas Quiz and send your 12 answers to guru@personneltoday...

January To get the year off to a puzzling start, the HR world was rocked by the news that the Ministry of Defence was mounting a strong... err... defence against the suggestion that it was targeting young children in its recruitment campaigns. Picking up on the military theme, Guru noted that prime minister Gordon Brown also had it in for the youngsters...

Music, they say, is the food of love. But this is the credit crunch and music has far more important roles to play. Guru has been sent a superb email trail from disgruntled Woolworths head office staff - some already made redundant, others merely awaiting the inevitable axe - selecting suitable tunes for their iPods. All the raw emotions that redundancy...

As if those Poles unfortunate enough to still be in the UK needed another reason to pack their bags and return to their homeland, they are now to realise just how depressing their retirements would be if they stayed here. Friends Provident has launched a pensions webcast in Polish to ensure that Polish employees of UK companies have sufficient information...

Guru is forever receiving emails about some recruitment firm opening a new office in Slough or Chorley or Kings Lynn. Big deal... But Guru was mightily impressed when he heard that executive search firm Pedersen & Partners had opened an office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Not just impressed by the extreme location of the new opening (how many executives...

While lily-livered consumers everywhere drag this great country into recession with their reluctance to open their wallets, one band of heroes is keeping the nation afloat with its big-hearted, big-natured, big, er, breasted spending. Yes, despite the so-called economic crisis, the number of men having breast reduction surgery is rising. Read More....