When speaking a lot counts!

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Jim as Business Enhancements

A recent survey from a US-based recruiter found that nealy 9 out of 10 headhunters in Europe, Latin America and Asia say that being bilingual is critical for success in today's business environment. 66 percent of North American recruiters agreed that being bilingual will be increasingly important in the next ten years. Moreso with the way "borderless" businesses are these days. Take the support industry for instance. Online, people buy products from say the USA, but receive support for the products thru call centers in South East Asia. I've heard of support agents in the Philippines who ...

Resting Ain’t Bad For Ya

Mar 14 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Enhancements, Lifestyle Features

It is not good for man to be overworked. I had made the mistake of overworking myself for one whole week monthly then be depressed and exhausted for three weeks a month, in the past. Then just right now, after having my mid-work Quiet Time (after finishing my February BlogSearchEngine.com posts), I read from 1 Kings 19:7: "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." The context is 1 Kings 19:1-18, where Elijah fled from Jezebel’s* wrath. Elijah was given food twice. After he was given food the first time, he ...

Quirky Work Habits: Do you have them too?

Nov 08 2007

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Enhancements, Lifestyle and Leisure, Virtual Office

What quirks do you have when you work? Writers, they say, are the quirkiest people when they are on “work mode”.

52 million pounds funding for business-focused universities

Jun 04 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, Business News, General Management, UK Companies

This piece of news will be welcomed by students all over the country. The DTI has recently awarded ï¿½52 million to a number of universities under the third round of the Higher Education Innovation Fund or HEIF. The goal of the awards is to aid in building closer ties between business and institutions that offer higher education. One of the projects that will share in the 52 million pounds funding handout are initiatives whose goal is to boost the number of entrepreneurs, establish a UK creative industry in China and to target the early signs of disease. The DTI has awarded ...

Small businesses to be hit hardest by new compulsory pension

Jun 03 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, Business News, General Management, UK Companies

Small businesses seem to be taking a lot of unnecessary hits of late, and they are already feeling the effects of this “injustice.” It seems the government is not yet content with just hitting businesses with an endless list of legislation and then tying them up with red tape. Now it looks like small business employers will be forced to make contributions to a new National Pensions Savings Scheme or NPSS. An employee can decide not to participate in the NPSS but with the sheer apathy of most employees it is believed that most will choose to remain ...

Blair cabinet re-shuffle hit by interest group

Jun 01 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Enhancements, Business News, General Management, UK Companies

The recent decision of Prime Minister Tony Blair to reshuffle his cabinet has been hit by an interest group, saying that the move has once again ignored the welfare of small businesses. The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has maintained that the decision has been detrimental for businessmen and business owners who own small businesses. They particularly cite the reshuffling of the Department of Trade and Industry but overlooking the fact that the position for Small Firms Minister has remained vacant. FPB Chief Executive Nick Goulding said that he thinks what has happened is another case illustrating the ...

Competent job candidates are getting harder to find

May 31 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, UK Companies

There seems to be a dearth of good, competent staff for small and medium sized businesses across the UK who are looking for people to fill important positions in these companies. In fact, 172,000 businesses have reported that they have not received any kind of applications for some of the job vacancies. This shortage presents a good opportunity for many recruitment agencies who can possibly help fill these vacancies. Although a skills shortage among the applying job candidates can still be considered as a tough issue, more often than not the difficulties arise from the ...

Make small business tax less taxing says pressure group

May 30 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Concepts, Business Enhancements, Business News, General Management, UK Companies

A pressure group is strongly urging the government to finally remove the big headache posed by confusing and time consuming tax returns. According to the Forum of Private Business (FPB), through its Chief Executive Nick Goulding, “It’s time to make tax returns less taxing. Our research shows that small business is left spending valuable time completing forms that they find confusing and over-complicated.” Goulding asserts that it is clear that not enough effort is being done in order to give assistance to small businesses in trying to understand what their role and responsibilities are when it comes to filing ...

Firms slow to attend to security flaws

Apr 14 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Enhancements, Business News, E-Commerce

A study conducted for security software firm McAfee indicates that firms are usually slow to implement security patches on their software, with 19% taking more than a week to patch or update for security. The research found out that 27% take two days to update their software, while almost half say they do not protect themselves against security threats. Many businesses do not protect themselves by installing software patches and updates as soon as they are published by the software companies. Hence, hackers can easily and regularly exploit these security holes and do all sorts of malicious activity, such as send ...

Timekeeping devices get modern

Mar 19 2006

Posted by Gordon as Business Enhancements, General Management

We talked before of the different employee time tracking methods I had personally experienced with the businesses I'd been involved in. Swipe-cards, whether magnetic or bar-code based may be easily copied. And password-based time keeping can also be prone to fraud, as employees simply had to share their username and passwords to willing colleagues who can then time in or time out for them. Some companies are now using more sophisticated means of tracking employee time. One of them is biometrics—which involve scanning uniquely identifiable body parts such as fingerprints and iris signatures in the eyes. The other is ...

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