My take on The Apprentice – episode 5: The ‘Pet Food’ task

It’s Wednesday, it’s 9pm. You get your preferred beverage and your smart phone on twitter and away you go. It’s the aspiration of would-be entrepreneurs, an anathema to serious business people, simple, light entertainment to those with a job, and a tenuous claim to fame of all those now ‘business gurus’ who were once fired from the show we love to hate – Yes, it’s The Apprentice.

We need to be allowed to talk about maternity leave

When interviewing candidates for a job we consider many things, whether they will fit in with the rest of the team and the company culture. Ultimately we are considering what this person will bring to the company. But we are not allowed to consider if in a month’s time they will ask for a year off, and their job to be held open. And we are certainly not allowed to ask if that is their plan.

Skype swallowed up by Microsoft, Apprentice language explained & learning from failure

Microsoft confirms takeover of Skype: Microsoft has confirmed that it has agreed to buy internet phone service Skype. The deal being to buy to buy the operator,  used by many small businesses, will see Microsoft pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype, the BBC are reporting, making it Microsoft’s largest acquisition. Internet auction house eBay bought Skype […]