Report on Jobs shows decline in salaries hitting new record as demand for staff weakens further The REC/KPMG monthly Report released on 4 March 2009 regarding Jobs highlights a further deterioration in labour market conditions, driven by sharply reduced demand for staff during February. “Labour market conditions continued to deteriorate as the poor economic climate [...]

These age groups flocking to twitter buy why? Here are some of my reasons why: It started as a curiosity – a sort of ‘what’s the hype about’. I started with LinkedIn two years ago, using it as a tool for my consulting business. Twitter followed last year and as a person that likes to [...]

New Arrival in the franchise market! The world’s biggest Lawn Mowing and Garden Maintenance Franchise was started in 1982 (in Melbourne, Australia) by Jim Penman – one man with a lawn mower and an urgent need to pay the rent. With his unwavering dedication to providing excellent customer service, Jim’s business quickly outgrew what one [...]

  LONDON Britain’s financial services industry is cutting jobs at the fastest rate for 16 years as it cuts costs to soften the blow of a steep fall in profitability, a survey showed on Monday. The CBI/PWC financial services survey, covering the three months to early March, found 9 percent of companies reporting a rise in [...]

This is different – a recruitment company that: to use that dreadful cliche…. ‘thinks out of the box‘ Now before you think I am over dramatising this a little, let me tell why it is so different. This company actually pays the successful candidate 50% of the fee they get paid from their clients!  Now before [...]

Franchising is used to describe many different forms of business relationships, including licensing, distributor and agency arrangements. The more popular use of the term has arisen from the development of what is called ‘Business Format Franchising’. This today the fastest-growing segment of franchising and has spread to virtually every sector of the economy in UK. It has [...]