The most popular interview question has changed recently apparently!
The HR consultancy A&DC has shown that the key competency for employers is knowing how a candidate manages conflicting demands. Six months ago the most popular question focused on stress tolerance but this is no longer the case.
The new most popular interview question is: Describe an occasion where you had a number of conflicting demands on your time. How did you deal with this?
Flexible working is a topical subject at present and the government is to now consult heads of business to discuss ways of dealing with flexible working requests.
This consultation follows the announcement that the government is looking to extend flexible working to parents with children who are 16 and under. This would be a massive step forward for parents who are currently not able to consider the flexible working option.
With all the recent publication of exam results the question of how impactive these results are is raised yet again. A new survey shows that academic results have made little or no impact on careers!
Monster.co.uk showed that 75% of respondents felt that academic results had not impacted their career. Amazingly only 10% of those surveyed thought that results had been instrumental in getting them to where they are today.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has finally shared it’s thoughts on the continued debate over regulations that the government is threatening to introduce. They have called on the government to halt the introduction of more regulations that could impact on the recruitment industry in a number of ways. The threat comes from European directives on agency workers. An REC spokesman has suggested that the directives must be implemented in a way that has minimal effect on the currently successful temporary and contract recruitment market.
Mobile email is currently much in demand and the current handset of choice is the BlackBerry®. Now pretty much standard in large corporates, the small business community has really started to see the value of using BlackBerry smartphones to pick up email or search for important information on the Internet when out of the office.
The BlackBerry range suits all tastes which are now also available as a sim free blackberry. Having moved on from the large, cumbersome designs, BlackBerry now has the 8110 Pearl, the 8310 Curve and the 8800. All of these have the tried and tested email software and now also include high spec cameras with flash, expandable memory, MP3 players and GPS. Later this year, the new BlackBerry 9000 Bold will be released and this is the smartest, most capable device of them all.
So what’s the secret to getting the best support and advice? The answer is to find a provider that specialises in business communications and don’t be afraid to ask for help. The good ones, like Jelly, will be glad to give their time – without obligation - to make sure you get a solution that perfectly matches your needs. There’s often the feeling with new technology that customers will be pressured by slick salespeople into committing to expensive packages that are too complicated to operate or too expensive to run.
Now is a great time to look at setting up a remote email system as prices are coming down, the technology is very reliable and relatively simple to set up. The key though, is to talk to a provider who specialises in business mobile communications as these folks understand the issues that can affect the system operating effectively.
Jelly even has its own data specialists working in the organisation. They have experience of working with all types of server and will be able to walk customers through the set-up or install, or liaise with the person in-house who has responsibility for the IT system.
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