Monthly Archives: November 2011

Director Movements

Posted on November 20, 2011     1 Comment

Recent survey of the countries leading businesses gave interesting results. A number of unsurprising trends emerged from the survey: NEDs: UP Women: DOWN CEO NEDs: DOWN Directors: DOWN Risk Committees: UP It is no surprise that the number of risk committees has doubled in the past two years, and that the increase has taken place […]

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Transferable Skills?

Posted on November 13, 2011     5 Comments

“Whilst I don’t technically have the experience you requested, I feel my Transferable Skills enable me to fulfil the role”. All of a sudden every other job applicant appears to have Transferable Skills.  So transferable and relevant, that they feel the need to highlight them……and then explain what they are……and then explain why they are […]

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It’s not fair

Posted on November 10, 2011     1 Comment

Same old statistics/same old complaints? Another report citing that the proportion of total income earned by the top 1% of earners in the UK has grown from 6% to 14% in the last 30 years. (8% to 18% in the US in the same period). Yet….. An OECD study in 2010 showed that Real Income […]

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