By Ciaran Ryan I was recently at a training college where young college graduates, mostly from poor backgrounds and with no work experience, were being readied for the work place. What I found most fascinating about the training was the emphasis on soft skills: how to communicate, how to dress for the workplace, how to […] more

Bruna Martinuzzi, CEO of Clarion Enterprises, provides some useful tips for improving productivity. These tips are gleaned from interviews conducted with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, so it is worth heeding what they have to say. Also useful, she says, are some of the free software apps now available for organising your life, […] more

By Philip Park, MD of PCS You will hear this frequently from companies eager to make the right noises in front of investors, customers and regulators: staff are our most valuable asset. Deep down, in a great many cases, we know this to be trite. In my many years in the recruitment industry, I have […] more