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Action needed now to prevent looming skills gap disaster

Research evidences that by 2015 60% of all jobs created will require skills that only 20% of the population possess. We need action now from legislators, administrators, employers and educators to address the widening skills gap. Economic and social prosperity … Continue reading

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Daniel Pink – A whole new mind

“Find out what it is you do out of a sense of enjoyment and challenge, not for the external rewards. Do what you do because you like it, it’s fun, interesting, challenging, meaningful.” “People who are intrinsically motivated do just … Continue reading

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Personal Accountability – The key to career success

Personal accountability. It’s the key to career success. It’s also a bug bear of mine. Rest assured this won’t be a rant, for I have blogged before about the “who’s to blame” culture that seems to purvey much of the … Continue reading

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Careers Advice – Who’s your role model?

There is much to be learned from those with whom we work. Study those in your workplace, what do they do well, what do they do badly? What works, what gets results, what delivers success? How do they interact with … Continue reading

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Career choices for teenagers – Stay in school or get a job?

Successive Governments the world over have long pushed the virtues of further and higher education.  It makes for great political capital ( is there a Politician alive who’d dare not encourage furthering education ).  I’m all for it.  You are … Continue reading

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Careers Advice – You never to old to learn

Learning does not stop when you leave school.  You are only just getting started.  If you really want to progress your career, make every day a learning experience. Every day is an opportunity to learn.  Every scenario you are presented … Continue reading

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Apprenticeships and The Apprentice the answer to jobs creation

To kick of Apprentice Week, Business Secretary Vince Cable is to announce the UK Government is committing £1.4bn to Apprenticeships in 2011. This is a great move and part of an overall strategy to encourage 100,000 additional apprenticeships by 2014. … Continue reading

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Positive role models required to inspire a generation

According to statistics from the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, the number of long-term youth unemployed (aged 16 to 25) in Britain now stands at 342,000 (although this number is falling, albeit only slightly, but falling nonetheless).  Perhaps most … Continue reading

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Eastern Promise

The balance of economic power has been shifting across the globe for some time, East in the direction of India and China and to South America with the rising global force that is Brazil.  To date this has had minimal … Continue reading

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Cut business taxes, encourage entrepreneurs and business investment, create jobs and wealth, increase the tax take and hey presto a recovery!

If only it were really that simple!  I am a glass half full kind of guy, one who believes that the good will eventually rise to the top.  However I am concerned that there is the very real risk of a … Continue reading

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