Your response to The Lost Generation has been phenomenal, thanks to all of you who shared your experience and frustrations with the current jobs market. What is absolutely clear is you’re not alone in the big hole between education and your career
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The messages are coming from your experiences in industry [...] Continue Reading…
ShareI was talking with a friend who is struggling to find a job after uni, sharing with her the experiences of recently being a job hunter myself. It’s becoming an all too familiar conversation. There is a wealth of passion and talent in the UK that simply doesn’t know [...] Continue Reading…
ShareIt’s been fashionable for a while for us to talk about how we “should” go green. It’s a little like the smoker saying they “should” stop, and the fatty saying they “should” diet. What are we really doing to change the systems & technology we depend on to solve [...] Continue Reading…
ShareSocial Media isn’t new any more. The Innovators have been here for a while, the Early Adopters & The Main Stream can’t quite figure out what to do with it. So what has been happening while we wait for the Loggards? What’s next?
The Payments Industry is dragging it’s feet [...] Continue Reading…
ShareIt’s a complex picture, but so far the Solutions have come from two angles. The first is from the banking sector, which is historically complex, and evolutionary. As such we have product offerings packaging a prepaid card, with mobile services, tied to one operator and one bank… The definition [...] Continue Reading…
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The summits, protests and political dog fights have so far missed the point and been ineffective. Why? Carbon levels have gone up and we are no closer to a real solution to our fossil fuel dependency. Whilst I buy the ideal that we “should” be able to [...] Continue Reading…
ShareThe banking sector is unwieldy for anyone to navigate, especially those without experience in it. The sheer amount of Compliance, legal issues & Audit involved is immense and often a shock to the uninitiated.
What Jack Dorsey is doing with square is interesting much more for the payments platform than [...] Continue Reading…
ShareNo matter how well crafted your image, realise that it only exists to serve those with a high school mentality. Your peers in business have moved beyond the visual system of measurement, and while able to observe a well presented image, this is not what gets you noticed. [...] Continue Reading…
ShareIn the rush to implement these services and quickly get value from them the public happily ticked a checkbox saying “Allow my personal data to be used” which were part of the terms of service. In itself a baby step from the previous way in which data had been [...] Continue Reading…
ShareHow are you doing with your 2010 goals? This is the tough bit, the cold January where you don’t want to go outside & the TV is far more inviting.
January 9th isn’t far into 2010, but usually by this point I would have given up on my goals & [...] Continue Reading…
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