Wade Burgess, Head of North America Sales – Hiring Solutions for LinkedIn shares how 9 minutes can change everything…
I was visited a few days ago by the inspirational Dr Craig Rose from the Seaweed Health Foundation. Seaweed is interesting stuff. I eat Japanese seaweed from time to time, there is one call arame which is really good. Also, anyone who likes sushi will be eating nori which is the green wrapping.
Seaweed is not really the right word for these t...
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HR has changed over the past 15 years from a reactive function to become more business focussed and proactive. The next 15 years may see HR take a longer term view of changes to the workplace. It could be a very exciting time for HR as we consider what factors will affect our companies?
I have been lucky to have attended a number of seminars...
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A few evenings ago I helped unload a 747. We’ll come back to this.
I consider myself a lucky man. After exiting Freeserve, once the trade sale was done, I was suddenly given the luxury of choice. And I made what some people think was a rather odd one, I moved back to Doncaster, to the town where I was born. My rationale was very clear to me; ...
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A royal wedding, spending cuts, striking unions – sound familiar?
This was thirty years ago when I was a student at the University of Leeds. Then the UK economy was dominated by mass labour and the nationalised industries such as coal and steel. We had far fewer Universities than the 116 listed in the recent Times league tables and around 15...
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…I sat, in the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s darkened Courtyard theatre watching 6 Degrees Below the Horizon (Imitating the Dog theatre company, part of the Transform festival) when I was struck by something I thought rather profound. It wasn’t anything to do with the innovative blend of (sometimes quite explicitly homoerotic) cinema and l...
Read more...The Yorkshire Mafia Blog is a collection of posts from some of Yorkshire’s leading business figures.
Rob Wilmot
ex CTO of Fresserve and Director at BCS Digital.
Ian Bowden
Urban Rambler and Art Director at Rockstar Games
Geoff Shepherd
Founder of The Yorkshire Mafia
Dr. Kevin Adams
Associate Dean for Employer Engagement, University of Bradford
Gary Verity
CEO, Welcome To Yorkshire
Steve Irwin
Trading Manager, Portland FPP
Wade Burgess
Head of North America Sales, Hiring Solutions
Dean Hoyle
Dean Hoyle, Chairman of HTFC
Carl Hopkins
Managing Director, Joblink Solutions CIC
Wouter van Tol
Head of Sustainability Communications at Nestle
