... at the company Christmas bash. To save you reaching for a dictionary, Saturnalia was the ancient Roman tradition of getting absolutely ... of bosses have had to discipline staff after antics got out of hand, says employment law firm Peninsula. Geraldine Elliott, head ...

... at the company Christmas bash. To save you reaching for a dictionary, Saturnalia was the ancient Roman tradition of getting absolutely ... of bosses have had to discipline staff after antics got out of hand, says employment law firm Peninsula. Geraldine Elliott, head ...

Few procurement directors are invited to address a gathering of major shareholders and financial analysts. Silla Maizey is one ... such as easyJet and Ryanair. One sign of how bad things have got: BA has finally been forced to ground its beloved Concorde from October. ...

There was once a purchaser in the footwear business buying on behalf of several shoe shops. ... “Few saw salespeople as individuals with both good and bad qualities,” the report, Seller Beware, concludes. “For many, they are ... When you’re in negotiation with a supplier, you’ve both got commercial objectives and it’s all about give and take.” It’s up ...

... over the last two years. The government has embarked on a quest to reduce spending on agency nurses through increased regulation and ... to be more competition at the high end for people who have got a lot of skills in areas such as finance and business.” Other areas ...

Fri, 4 Oct 2013 We’ve all got stories of bad interviews or too-long-for-comfort pauses after a difficult question – but now comes a list of some toe-curling interview ...

There is a general feeling in the commercial world that reps don't like putting prices ... discuss it. This ink company - she to be more personal - got all 35 per cent, and on the first invoice possible. Boy, was that fun. ... of you who don't know what a cyclical business is, it is six bad years and then a really awful one. From this, I concluded there are five ...

... could stay in the laboratory and dissect rats? He might have got the best grades at school, but the chances are that 20 years on he’ll find it difficult to find a well-paid job. That is the message from recruitment professionals who claim ...

... to make it to work — defying the stereotypical image of a Britain full of skiving workers. Last week John Wood, who works for ... Barking, Essex. All went well, until he reached DHL. He got out of the car, slipped on some black ice, broke his wrist and was signed ...

... about the beginning of summer that sets many of us on a course of self-improvement. Perhaps it’s the longer evenings that prompt us ... to identify eight major achievements and to examine how they got going, the part you played in the proceedings, the subject matter, the ...