Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once said that his bad hires had cost the company “well over $100 million.” Whilst it’s reassuring that a firm that usually gets everything so right … occasionally doesn’t … it is mind boggling how much a bad hire can cost. I mean, there’s the obvious …
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Project Management is the second most boring job in the world, according to a recent study. When you factor in that working in IT also makes the top ten you would be forgiven for imagining that all IT Project Managers must be constantly nodding off on the job. Who did …
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I just gave some seemingly contrary advice. “You need to be more solid, steady, dependable, consistent – you’re all over the place,” I told an experienced IT Project Manager friend who is having one of those blips where nothing goes right. “OK, how?” he …
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Why set up a new IT recruitment agency when a Google search of the term returns about 46.2 million results? A crowded marketplace that! Thing is, whilst as an employer we could find lots of agencies, consultants and service providers – we struggled to …
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I was amazed to learn this week that a UK firm, one that is a major user of technology to deliver its services and a large employer of millennials … bans its staff from using social media during office hours. It got me thinking. …
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