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Careers Guidance

You're a Chartered Accountant and you want to change careers. What are your options? Read More...

Published 30 Jan 2009 7:22 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: careers, lion taming, Chartered Accountancy
The other half of the toolbox you were told to throw out

There's power in negative thinking....why do you think we're banned from using it?Time to put it back in your toolbox: Read More...

Published 29 Jan 2009 7:40 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: negative thinking
Oops

You've just taken possession of a new office; the men are still heaving things up the stairs; it's all lovely until.......OOOOPs Read More...

Published 28 Jan 2009 8:08 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Cable accident, health and safety, atrium
Back to basics

How can you cut down expenditure if your income is diminishing or limited? Get back to thinking in the student way. Here's Martin Lewis explaining to students at the LSE how they should start thinking about their money. Good advice even for those...

Published 27 Jan 2009 7:58 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: savings, student life, cost cutting
Writing your resume

Let's get realistic, a lot of people will be looking for a new job. Most people will be updating their c.v.'s. Most will use the templates that are in common usage. Do you really think by doing that you're going to stand out? Nah, I thought...

Published 26 Jan 2009 8:10 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: CV, business letter, resume
Management Training

Job applicants given a rough ride? Read More...

Published 23 Jan 2009 10:07 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Interviews, Interviewees, management training, job applicant
No referees

What do you do when you don't have a handy list of potential job referees? You'll need to work on it: Read More...

Published 22 Jan 2009 8:00 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Referees, job hunting, CV
Bomber

I'd forgotten about the B-52's hit 'Rock Lobster'; here is a performance of it. See how many visual cultural references you can spot... (You may need to be of a certain age to recognise a few of them). Read More...

Published 21 Jan 2009 7:57 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: culture, B-52's, Rock Lobster
The world welcomes the new POTUS

Today's the day Mr Obama becomes the first black president of the United States of America, two centuries after the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was responsible for freeing the black slaves in the confederate south by the Emancipation Proclamation...

Published 20 Jan 2009 7:24 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Barack Obama;POTUS;inauguration
Casual employment

Years ago, when La Lobster was a mere yoof, she was known to do some seasonal work for an agricultural firm. The work, quite dirty, paid better than La Lobster's full time job at the time. It was nevertheless bad for La Lobster's health, clothing...

Published 19 Jan 2009 6:23 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: piece work, supply and demand, Casual employment, professionals
Googleit

Google gets everywhere, is there no way to wash it off? Read More...

Published 16 Jan 2009 7:43 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Google, office
Gambler's remorse

I have a spoon, so let's see what's in the pot: “To hope... that a Labour Party can be built up in a population quivering from an indulgence in games of hazard is pure folly. Such a population cannot be organised for sustained political effort...

Published 15 Jan 2009 6:28 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Gamblers, Charlatans, Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Party
Mine's better than your's mate

Did you watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures? (On Channel Five in case you wondered). All about computers and stuff for the educationally challenged. Anyways, the bloke man giving the talk uses a box load of table tennis balls to illustrate...

Published 14 Jan 2009 6:49 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Cadbury's Creme Egg, mousetraps
Hate your job....think again

Just a short post today to give you the link to the series of programmes entitled The Worst Jobs in History. Be grateful you don't have to do any of them. It puts one's Monday morning moaning into perspective. Read More...

Published 13 Jan 2009 6:30 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson
Computing is so old hat

There have been some interesting reconstructions of historical machines recorded for television series of late including a fantastic reconstruction of Gutenberg's original press for a programme hosted by Stephen Fry. Well, how about this: a Greek...

Published 12 Jan 2009 6:55 AM by Stone Cast

Filed under: computers, calendar, David's Lyre, Stephen Fry, Greece, astronomy, ancient inventions

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Careers Guidance

The other half of the toolbox you were told to throw out

Oops

Back to basics

Writing your resume

Management Training

No referees

Bomber

The world welcomes the new POTUS

Casual employment

Googleit

Gambler's remorse

Mine's better than your's mate

Hate your job....think again

Computing is so old hat