Posted by admin on 12 22nd, 2008
OK, so its a week or so early, but as 2009 is nearly upon us, I was having a think back at what really has been an incredible year. Here’s how I’ll look back…
1. The economy
You’ve got to start here. Uncharted territory? Well we’ve had recessions (and depressions) before but if anyone can think of a time when we’ve had runs on banks, bailouts, interest rates at 2%...
Posted by admin on 11 27th, 2008
If you’ve visited this blog before you may have read the post about the software product that I think effectively brings back ad chasing - Shrinking Market? Shrink the Web (part 1). That covered off how the millions of web pages devoted to job ads can be made manageable.
Job ad side covered, this post deals with the other side of the fence - the now huge amount of candidate CVs sitting on job...
Posted by admin on 10 24th, 2008
It looks like it’s official -the UK is headed into recession. Sky News report here that official figures show the UK economy shrunk by 0.5% between July and September. I don’t think many people would argue these stats are not a decent reflection on how the economy has been over the last few months, and perhaps more worryingly, most feel that things are going to get worse before they get...
Posted by admin on 10 17th, 2008
http://blog.broadbean.com/2008/10/open-letter-fro.html
If you’ve not seen it already, have a click on the Broadbean blog.
Congratulations to all involved. A british business doing the business!
Broadbean have got themselves into a market leading position. Don’t think many in the industry would doubt that - how did they get there? They got the mix right - technology, delivery and service....
Posted by admin on 10 2nd, 2008
Anyone read Metro yesterday?
http://www.xing.com/ the professional networking site had a fairly big ad in there yesterday morning. Anyone who’s ever looked into advertising in Metro will know these ads ain’t cheap. Also noticed poster advertising at one of the tube stations I was at. This sort of campaign isn’t uncharted territory for xing - a couple of clicks from google will show...