Job Advice Blog - Good People
Reforms to the benefits system are welcome but...
Through Good People's recruitment, training and outplacement services, we meet folks every week who feel trapped in some sort of benefits maze which blocks their instincts in accepting a job opportunity. It is interesting to find another week passes and once again welfare reform is...
Five Days that changed Britain and the importance of personal chemistry
"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend." (Mark McCormack - What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School ) Last night's BBC documentary from Nick Robinson...
Developing Trust & Mutual Respect
Some people just seem to glide through life quite easily. Opportunities tend to fall into their laps. How do they do it? There are many factors, but here's a simple tip that may help. Think for a moment about a poisonous snake or, maybe, just someone who represents a poisonous...
UK unemployment falls to 2.47m
UK unemployment fell 0.1% to 7.8% period up to May this year, according to he Office for National Statistics. Thus 2.47m people were out of work between March and May, 34,000 less than the previous quarter. This is encouraging, but does not reflect forthcoming cuts in the public sector....
A welfare system for the 21st Century
Good People received an email invitation earlier in the week from Ian Duncan Smith, the new Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, to attend a briefing in London yesterday about the new administration's vision for welfare reform. The key points we took...
