by Jason Taylor | Jan 8, 2020 | Advice, Job Preparation, Life Tips, Work Life
It’s 2020. A new year of optimism and fresh starts. Yet there’s also a degree of pressure- to become a bright, shiny new individual who’s setting a tonne of goals for the year ahead. But what if you’re happy with how things are going? Should you try and push yourself...
by Jason Taylor | Dec 19, 2019 | Business, Business News, Education, Employment News, News, Politics, Technology, The Economy, The Government, Work Life
It’s safe to say it’s been a turbulent year. Accelerating technology, political headaches and pressured work environments have hurried us through the past twelve months without giving us much opportunity to reflect upon things. While we now have a chance to wind down...
by Jason Taylor | Dec 12, 2019 | Business, Business News, Diversity, Work Life
As businesses face an increasing amount of pressure to create diverse working environments, inclusion workshops are now on the rise. Used as a way to educate staff about a broad range of backgrounds, inclusion workshops serve as a means to go beyond basic compliance...
by Jason Taylor | Nov 15, 2019 | Business News, Diversity, Education, Employment News, News, The Government, Work Life
After conducting our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey earlier this year, we are beginning to dissect our results to build up an accurate representation of Greater Manchester’s current business landscape, and where companies may be missing the mark when it...
by Jason Taylor | Nov 6, 2019 | Advice, Life Tips, Networking, Work Life
No doubt many of us will have experienced the pains of networking events. You walk into a room full of strangers, armed with a stack of business cards, ready to rub elbows with the best in the business. But let’s face it- networking events can sometimes be stressful,...
by Jason Taylor | Oct 31, 2019 | Advice, Business, Business News, Work Life
Despite the bad press, millennials are shaping the way for the modern job market. Millennial professionals (those born between 1981 and 1996) are now the largest working generation, and approach their work in a manner that is wholly different from their predecessors....
by Jason Taylor | Oct 24, 2019 | Business, Business News, News, Politics, Technology, The Economy, The Government, Work Life
It’s a debate that has been gathering momentum for a while now, but the movement for a four day week is slowly coming to a head. Every month, a new business is operating within a four day week, or at least trialling it to test its feasibility. Whether it’s a...
by Jason Taylor | Oct 16, 2019 | Advice, Work Life
Earlier this year, Google’s Project Oxygen attempted to prove that managers didn’t matter in the workplace- if anything, they only served to instil ‘a layer of bureaucracy’ within the office. They planned to prove this through two methods; manager performance...
by Jason Taylor | Oct 10, 2019 | Business News, News, The Economy, The Government
It’s a question that’s been on the lips of many in the past few months. As we approach the Halloween deadline for Brexit, the current economic landscape in the UK and beyond is one that is full of uncertainty. After the pound weakened for the first time in six and a...
by Jason Taylor | Oct 1, 2019 | Advice, Life Tips, New Job, Work Life
We’ve all probably thought about it at some point. Whether it’s daydreaming about travelling to far flung destinations or starting some charity work, career breaks have often felt like a pipe dream rather than a viable option. A few years ago, this would probably be...
