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CALLING TIME...ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on May 8, 2012 - 23:00

When someone uses the expression ‘Freedom of Speech’ what do you think of? Political prisoners locked up in some dingy dungeon for daring to stand up to a repressive dictator? The whistle-blower who’s been hounded out of their job for exposing the activities of a cavalier employer?

‘Logistics Industry 2012 Recruitment survey findings’

Submitted by Logistics Board
on April 25, 2012 - 11:28

In January / February 2012 www.logisticsjobshop.co.uk  the premier webased Job board/Recruitment service to the Logistics Industry canvassed 1000 registered candidates seeking their opinions regarding a range employment trends.

 

In summary the survey highlighted the following

 

Employment Status

  • 70% of respondents are currently employed

 

Recruitment in 2012

  • 35% expected 2012 recruitment levels to the same as in 2011.
  • 25% expected some recruitment in 2012 but at a lower level than in 2011.
  • 24% expected no recruitment activity in 2012.

 

Pay Awards in 2012

  • 20% expected pay awards in excess of

THE YOUNG HOPEFULS

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on April 11, 2012 - 09:02

A while back I was talking to a fellow hack about the difficulty of recruiting fresh blood to write about the road transport industry. For reasons I still don’t get it’s not considered a ‘sexy’ enough subject by young journos. Yet I’ve lost count of the number of times a cub reporter has told me: ‘I’m surprised how interesting this business is.’  I’m not. It’s high up the polticial agenda, the epitome of the classic entrepreneurial dog-eat-dog market and full of some very ‘interesting’ characters!

FUTURE GAZING

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on March 28, 2012 - 09:46

Are you hiring for today…or tomorrow? Chatting to a recruitment colleague the other day I was surprised to hear that all-too-many companies seldom see beyond the ‘here-and-now’ when filling vacancies. In particular, he mentioned how his usual practice is to not only provide his clients with the CVs of people who clearly match the job specification---but to also add one or two of those whose talents are above-and-beyond that required by the actual vacancy.

March of the mega-sheds

Submitted by Brian Weatherley
on March 14, 2012 - 14:42

MARCH OF THE MEGA-SHEDS

 

Was the father of ‘natural selection’ Charles Darwin right when he said that it inevitably follows that: “Old forms will be supplanted by new and improved forms”?  And does it apply to warehouses 152 years later?  

 

Every time I drive along a motorway, sooner or later I’ll pass a massive/enormous/gigantic/walloping-great (select your own adjective) warehouse either being built or just completed.

 

Each time I see one I find myself wondering a) what’s going to fill it and b) what will happen to the old one it replaced?

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