All Archive Titles articles – Page 280
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Interview techniques
You spent hours polishing your CV and you have an interview, but how do you prepare and ensure you succeed?
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Preparing a Good CV
Tim Cook, managing director of Hays Building Services, offers some useful advice.
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UK's 50 Best Workplaces
ESD's efforts to get the best from its employees have gained it a place on the ‘uk's 50 best workplaces' list. BSj finds out why flexibility, trust and support are key
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How to survive… a bonding weekend
For some unfathomable reason managers seem to think that spending a weekend with your colleagues performing a variety of hideous tasks is fun. Want to know how to avoid utterly humiliating yourself? Amaya Lopez offers some advice
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How to survive… being a slacker
No matter how hard you try you just can’t give your job the required 110%. Let’s face it, you’re a natural born slacker and nothing’s going to change your vision of work/life balance. But surely idlers can’t get on and carve a career in the workplace? Amaya Lopez suggests wake ...
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How to survive … the office party aftermath
It’s early January and you’re still losing sleep over the way you behaved at the work Christmas party… Now you’ll have to continue facing your colleagues until the next one comes round, which of course gives them the perfect excuse to reminisce about the time you made a complete muppet ...
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Richard Carter joins Suffolk Housing Society
Also: Denton Corker Marshall makes a series of promotions including John Rintoul to director
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How to survive … the office party aftermath
It’s early January and you’re still losing sleep over the way you behaved at the work Christmas party… Now you’ll have to continue facing your colleagues until the next one comes round, which of course gives them the perfect excuse to reminisce about the time you made a complete muppet ...
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Martin Pugh heads Bilfinger Berger's UK and Ireland concessions/PPP business
Also: Taylor Woodrow takes on former Related vice president John Landrum
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Archive TitlesWhy specify that?
This month’s construction conundrums include a hexagon-shaped pool pavilion, a seaside development and a library in a historic yorkshire town
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Archive TitlesThis is a year to show off
My last column on red tape brought only one response to our appeal for examples of red tape. I can only conclude that people either don’t see red tape as a problem or don’t feel that anyone can do anything about it.
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Securitys sixth sense
Awareness is one of the most essential skills required of staff working in an in-house security environment. Good levels of awareness reflect positively on the Security Department’s level of professionalism, ensuring that security duties are carried out effectively. Aran Dharmeratnam explores the value of specialist awareness training.
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Skills report welcomed
Recommendations outlined in a government skills review report published last month have been welcomed by industry training body ConstructionSkills. The report, still to be approved by government, says employers will have even more say on training and skills development.
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Archive TitlesMy project
As project manager for the London Borough of Enfield I’ve recently overseen the erection of a new footbridge over Mossops Creek that links two parts of a 1.2km long riverside walk along the River Lee Navigation.
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Archive TitlesTomorrow’s people
In 2007, CM wants to highlight people who we think are going to influence construction in the future. To kick off our year-long celebration of talent, we have selected four people who show us a glimpse of how things might be
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Archive TitlesNew year new you
If January is traditionally a time of dark days and long faces in your office, then resolve to change things this year. over the next four pages CM has assembled advice from a team of experts to help you get yourself and your team into better shape inside and out.
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Servant of the nation
Having been an officer of the Security Service for 33 years, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller has tendered her resignation to Home Secretary John Reid.
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Time and motion studies
Brian Sims talks to the directors of two private sector security contractors Ontime Guarding and Shearforce Security about their move towards a real-time, GPRS-based wireless management system that’s already proving beneficial to their own operation and those of their clients.
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Research Matters
Property marking is a technique used by security managers and loss prevention professionals throughout the retail world, supply chains and in other sectors, but does it have any deterrent value for the would-be thief?