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12 Jan 5 Effective Ways to Simplify Complex Business Practices
When it comes to your business operations, you may start out with fairly simple processes. But over time, the way you conduct your business can become more complex as your company grows, as you introduce new programs and procedures, and as employees develop their own ways of getting the job done. Unfortunately, this can have a negative impact on your productivity, turning once-simple tasks into monumental hurdles. And the worst part is that very little of the work being done might be necessary to ongoing operations. For this reason it is imperative that you perform an audit and figure out where time is being wasted, as well as how to best create the targeted practices that ensure work is completed in an effective and efficient manner.
12 Jan Six reasons why your business should use Foursquare
You might have heard Foursquare mentioned in conversation and assumed it was just another social network. However, it's a location-based system that allows users to ‘check-in’ to businesses from their mobile phone could benefit the savvy small business.
12 Jan Work at Home Business Opportunities
Home business opportunities have blossomed of late owing to the great advances that have been realized in internet technology. The wide range of modern communication equipment in existence has also contributed widely to the success of many businesses.
15 May MPs vote for change – but this is just the first step
You might have caught it on the news or in the paper but on Tuesday, for the first time in Parliament, MPs held a debate on unpaid internships. The issue had ever been voted on before, but MPs divided 181-19 in favour of an end unpaid internships. This was a huge victory and very exciting for the campaign!20 Jan Westminster school intern auction
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12 Jan Best Practice for Business
Internships are an increasingly common entry-level path into a wide range of industries. Here, we would like to offer you what we deem as a minimum standard that businesses should legally and morally hold themselves to when taking on interns.
12 Jan INTERNS AND PARLIAMENT
MPs love to talk about social mobility. All of the three main parties claim they want to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds get the jobs they deserve. If only they practised what they preached. Too many Members of Parliament advertise for unpaid internships. They are unfair and may well be illegal.