How to hire millennials
You millennials. You don’t know how much heartache you’re causing your older employers, what with your expectations of bean bags in the office, a career path that takes weeks rather than years and an absurd claim that hours spent on Facebook is good for business. We just don’t get it because we were sent to...
How to earn £100,000
It’s easy to earn loads of money, apparently. A quick look of the nijobfinder.co.uk site and some canny – at least in my technologically inept world – ‘advanced searching’ will bring up a plethora of jobs with a salary of over £100,000. More precisely, the top paying role pays up to £490-a-day which works out...
The robots are coming
Ever get the feeling someone is looking over your shoulder and eagerly eyeing your job? Maybe someone from another firm, a colleague or someone who works for you? What about the beady eyes of a robot, one which doesn’t ask for a salary, doesn’t take tea breaks and doesn’t get stuck in traffic? It might...
Reasons to be cheerful, part 1
Whether you’re looking for a job or hiring for a new position, it’s easy to get the feeling we’re very hard done by here in Northern Ireland. Sure, isn’t the dole queue down the street and the talent pool shallower than a puddle in the Gobi desert? Well don’t listen to such negativity because –...
Working to Live
PAY RISE! Well, maybe not, but now that we have your attention, how many of you got a bit of a bump up in your pay packet in the last year? According to the team at recruitment company Abacus, just over half (well, 263 out of the 500 it surveyed, to be precise) of “professional”...
Job Market Swagger Belies a Soggy Bottom
#jobblog Job Market Swagger Belies a Soggy Bottom There’s nothing like the monthly jobs stats from the nattily-titled Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) to get us data nerds excited. This month they’ve painted a “could do better” picture of the labour market despite, as usual, going out of their way to point out...