January Blues
Job Vacancies & Recruitment in January The first Monday of the New Year is various known as massive Monday or Mega Monday as the volume of jobseekers soars after the Christmas/New Year break. In print and packaging we have seen a tripling of applications over the holiday period, mostly since…
CV Blunders Harm Your Chances of Securing Employment
CVs are something of a pet subject of mine and with poor CVs hitting the headlines, and indeed BBC Breakfast, this week I couldn’t resist getting on my soapbox again. In the news is a report based on polls of almost 200 careers advisers from the National Careers Service and…
Packaging Professionals of the Future
It is the vanity of every generation to think their era is in some way special and that they face the greatest challenges. However there are a number of outside influences bearing down on the industry which mean that today’s and, perhaps more importantly, tomorrow’s packaging professionals need a different…
Social and business etiquette
Social / business etiquette Industry gatherings are fairly frequent and picking your way through acceptable etiquette can be a bit of a minefield. A lot depends on why you are there and who you are. Clearly if you are independently wealthy and have no intention of pursuing new ventures…
Temporary Workers in the Print Industry
Temporary workers in the Print Industry are a common practice. The shift toward leaner operations means that many print companies have to flex manning to cope with peak demand. Typically their options are either overtime or using temporary workers. Where the demand is very time specific, very often overtime is…
Print Industry: What does the future hold?
Print Industry: What does the future hold? We are often asked how the industry is evolving, what to the landscape likely to be like and where will MD’s of the future come from? When looking at the future of the print industry and what the MD of the future is…
Flexible Working
Could flexible working be more accepted in future work environments? Contrary to popular belief Flexible working is not limited to traditional notions of flexi-time. In fact, there are 14 officially recognised forms of flexible working and where appropriate these can bring benefits to employer and employees alike. Clearly, in environments…
Career Transitioning
Structures, roles and responsibilities, not to mention culture are very different in large and small companies. Roles are more tightly defined in large companies whereas people may have to do a bit of everything in smaller organisations. Employers can be wary of people from different environments eg do those from…
Print Industry Parental Leave: How Will It Affect Employers?
The reality is those who think these proposals are going to have a dramatic impact for the print industry, whether positive or negative, are probably well off the mark. For women there is the opportunity to go back to work earlier if their partner chooses to take print industry parental…
Flexibile, multi-skilled staffing is the way forward
Multi-skilled staffing is the way forward Recovery from the recession(s) has been something of a rollercoaster ride and with talk of a possible triple dip recession we are not out of the woods yet. We should be careful about the media reports however as by the time figures are reported…
