How to hire your first country manager

Getting it right: Hiring a first country manager can be difficult logistically

Getting it right: Hiring a first country manager can be difficult logistically

Peter Linas, international managing director of recruitment software provider Bullhorn, advises how to find and hire a successful country manager.

Smokers cost UK employers up to £2.1 billion a year

Why e-cigarettes might be the solution to a loss of productivity caused by smoking breaks. 

How to persuade staff to retire by promoting financial advice

With a backdrop of anti-age discrimination and a new landscape for financial advice, Lee Coles, head of Jelf Money after Work, looks at how businesses can help and encourage employees to retire.

From number-crunching CFO to strategic CFO

Taking the lead: CFOs are being charged with a more expansive role

The days of fiddling with an abacus are over according to David Chancellor, partner at Tyzack Partners, who says that the role of the CFO has changed dramatically.

Using online workers to boost productivity of SMEs

The balance between wanting to take on new work whilst not increasing staff overheads too much is an issue for many SMEs. Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk, looks at the benefit of online workers and how they can reduce the strain.

Performance management is all year round, not just for Christmas!

Employee growth: Management of staff is important for development

Lucinda Carney, occupational psychologist and founder of Actus, looks at how employee performance should be managed and mapped.

The rise of e-lancing in the workplace

Keith Holdt, investment director at private equity firm LDC’s Value Enhancement Group explains why freelancing, in particular e-lancing, is having an impact and is set to transform the modern workplace.

What the changes to pension laws mean for employers

Pension discussion has been affected  greatly by auto-enrolment

NOW: Pensions discusses the implications of pension changes for businesses.

Investing in graduates to grow your business

Freddie Ossberg, founder and MD of Raconteur Media, makes the case for the careful nurturing of new graduates in order to ensure future success in a growing business.

The under skilled, unemployed, next generation graduates

With graduates and employers becoming increasingly demanding of each other, David Bloxham of recruitment firm GCS explains where the balance lies.

Military precision

With skilled professionals in demand, Nick Everard, managing director of J1 Consulting, looks at how experience picked up in the line of duty can be transferable to the business world.

Flexible working – better for the bottom line?

Peter Boucher, enterprise commercial marketing director for Vodafone UK, looks at how flexible working has helped Vodafone do away with its previous rigid structure and stay ahead of the competition.

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Procurement: do you sell around them, or with them?

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David Freedman, associate director at behavioural change consultancy Huthwaite International, looks at how best to approach to issue of procurement – and the people that pull the strings.

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New Energy and Cleantech Awards 2013

Date: March 21, 2013
Venue: Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London

M&A Awards 2013

Date: June 27, 2013

Location: Millennium Mayfair, London

2013 Investor AllStars

Date: September 25, 2013

Location: The Natural History Museum, London

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Mobile security business AirWatch has added to the $200 million Series A round it closed earlier in the year by securing an extra $25 million.

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Quality not quantity: David Barker was careful not to get clients from one sector

Diversifying the client base at launch and learning to say ‘No’ 

David Barker reflects on resisting the temptation to say 'Yes' to the first offer when he opened his data centre, and how choosing instead to diversify his client base at launch has enabled 4D Data Centres to maintain rapid growth in a recession.

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