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  • Tell them you don't need them with Hallmark

    It can be difficult telling an employee that you need to “let them go” in the interests of making “efficiency savings” towards the goal of “streamlining”, but it is about to become considerably easier thanks to Hallmark. The card company, which up to now has feasted primarily on the fruits of tacky American holidays...
    Published 30 Sep 2011 1:17 PM by Guru

  • Guru insulted by last-minute substitution

    Image: Rex Features Guru is not having a good day. The bosses had decided to send a couple of its brightest HR stars to a management conference in Manchester to give a talk about “Strategising for a bright future going forward”. Guru was last a bright star around about the time that Betelgeuse appeared in the night sky, but following a bout...
    Published 28 Sep 2011 12:33 PM by Guru

  • Come, recession! Come!

    Image: Rex Features Guru has spent many years working in HR and can honestly say that throughout this time he has gone to bed every night dreaming of a redundancy or a complicated disciplinary process to sink his teeth into. Nothing makes Guru happier than one difficult redundancy process to negotiate, except, of course, two difficult redundancies,...
    Published 27 Sep 2011 3:20 PM by Guru

  • God wants Scotland's rugby union team to get even worse

    What do the following sportsmen have in common? Jonathan Edwards Eric Liddell Michael Jones Euan Murray That’s right, they are all guilty of taking religion a little too seriously. Each has refused to compete on a Sunday in his chosen sport, be it jumping about, running about or rugby union. Ewan Murray is the latest to refuse to go to work on...
    Published 22 Sep 2011 3:37 PM by Guru

  • Female managers get questionable vote of confidence

    According to the Chartered Management Institute, employees are calling for more female bosses ( Employees call for more female bosses ). The justification for this claim comes from a Randstad survey in which one-third of respondents agreed that the business they work for would perform better if it took advantage of the management skills of a woman....
    Published 21 Sep 2011 2:43 PM by Guru

  • Mail reveals shocking truth about working life in Gloucestershire

    The Daily Mail exclusively revealed today that more people in Gloucestershire work for Tesco than the police ( Shoppers, not crooks! Gloucestershire: The county where more people work for Tesco than the police ). Yes, you heard right: more people in Gloucestershire work for Tesco than the police! Guru was amazed to hear this and looks forward to hearing...
    Published 14 Sep 2011 12:39 PM by Guru

  • Applicant (incorrectly) decides honesty is the best policy

    Image: Rex Features Britain’s unemployed are having to find novel ways to appeal to potential employers. One novel way is to produce a terrible CV, something that Benedict Le Gauche has achieved with applomb ( World’s worst CV admits to ‘stealing’, ‘laziness’ and ‘skiving’ ). Mr Le Gauche, Le Gauche being...
    Published 13 Sep 2011 12:20 PM by Guru

  • School faces mighty adversary in war for talent

    British politicians prepare for their time in high office by being born really, really rich and going on to study PPE at Oxford with their friends. The story is somewhat different, it seems, for Somalia’s high officials, who can be found in all walks of life, as exemplified by the story of Mohamed Ibrahim. Mohamed Ibrahim was a learning support...
    Published 9 Sep 2011 12:08 PM by Guru

  • Bad grammar will not be tolerised

    According to a press release from Bottle PR found clogging up Guru’s inbox, Staffbay has found that “63% of employers site spelling and grammar mistakes as biggest CV turn off”. No arguments hear. Read More...
    Published 5 Sep 2011 3:03 PM by Guru
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  • Study lifts lid on morning coffee

    Image: Rex Features A study conducted by the University of East London has found that our morning coffee achieves its stimulatory effects largely because of our expectations of being stimulated ( Why the morning caffeine ‘fix’ may be all in the mind ). The researchers tricked coffee lovers by giving them decaffeinated coffee disguised as...
    Published 2 Sep 2011 3:27 PM by Guru

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