The High-Performance Contradiction
It’s a strange facet of human nature that often the better someone appears to do, the easier they make it look and the less their efforts are valued. We know this as the high-performance contradiction. Perhaps it’s because it is harder to quantify skill, knowledge and background preparation or that…
Restrictive Covenants
Frequently we see employment contracts with long restrictive covenants that are very general about not working for “competitors” or approaching clients with either no geographic region or specifying the whole country. Typically courts view this kind of generalisation as a restricting the individual’s ability to earn a living, a “restriction…
Appreciating the True Cost of Your Vacancy
Many of the costs of recruitment are easy to quantify, e.g. advertising or agency / consultancy fees, although the focus on these tends to blind many people to the very significant internal, often unaccounted for, costs. We’ll address these in a separate article because the other, almost certainly far more…
Training in the Print Industry
If you asked me “is a formal training plan an important factor in attracting the best talent?” I’d have to say no. Despite its historical link with apprenticeships, the modern print industry is not known for training and it is clear that it just isn’t at the top of the…
