This has nothing to do with recruitment. If you’ve ever had to talk a parent, grandparent or technophobe through any kind of tech support issue, then this video will really resonate.
Can’t wait to show my mum. After I’ve explained that both the monitor and the PC need to be turned on before she can see anything. Again.
Thanks to the King of Widgets for bringing this to my attention.
Ever wondered how your love of all things online compares with the big kids or whether you are officially a digital freak?
Here’s your chance to find out!
The clever chaps at Enhance Media have devised a ingenious little e-test to determine your geek rating. Please take a look , its very illuminating.
You can add it as a widget to your site too, all thanks to a little help from Widgetbox. To add the widget, please click on this link.
Enjoy!
I’ve received my third press release today from various companies droning on about Blue Monday - the day when we’re all so depressed, apparently. I’m not sure who thinks these things up but I reckon it’s a load of rubbish. What do you think?
If you are someone that would get sad on Monday coming, I suggest a good movie with a friend and a bottle of lovely wine (or if like me you’re not drinking in January, a nice bottle of San Pelegrino!).
Life’s too short to spend any of it sad. If you’re feeling blue this week or any other just drop us a line saying “give us a joke then” and I’ll send you a joke so awful you’ll have to smile, or in the very least - grin and bear it 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We’ve just had our final dim sum of the year, and I am ready to explode. This can only mean one thing - it’s the last day of work for us this year (we’re shut for communication, but not for posting/buying etc over the holidays) and it’s CHRIIIIIIISSSSTTTMAS!
Merry Christmas to everyone, and hope you have a fulfilling and entertaining next year. Thanks for all your support, and we look forward to seeing more jobs and candidates next year.
Cheers everyone, and good luck with the mince pies.
London has been drenched for the last couple of days, so when I took a call from the office this morning, I wasn’t surprised to be told, “I’m standing in a puddle”.
“So, stop dallying around outside and get to work. Sheesh”, I replied, with my usual cheery tones. I’m always cranky before the first coffee of the day. “If you loiter outside the office, the nice policemen will start asking questions.” Our office is situated in the middle of Soho inconveniently (or conveniently depending on your perspective) to some of the more louche establishments in the area.
“You don’t understand, I am inside. I’m standing in the office. In a puddle.”, came the reply. Not the words you want to hear.
I had visions of wading through the office in a pair of wellies, holding various bits of electrical equipment upside down to drain out the water. Fortunately, it was nothing like that bad. All, I can say is, don’t ever take the rubber feet off your computer boxes. Those critical few millimeters meant our office machines stayed nice and dry.
So, apologies if we’re a touch slow in replying to emails today or you’ve found it difficult to send a fax to us this morning. We’re drying out now, and aside from the smell of damp plaster and a tendency for the office to become a sauna the second the windows are closed, we’re back to normal.
It’s the sort of thing that only really happens when you get to the end of the day, and the document you are supposed to be working on is beginning to sap your life away. That’s when you start chatting. “What would happen if we change the font size on Chinwag Jobs?”.
Fateful, I tell you, fateful. Twenty minutes later and there’s a demo version of the website hewn from raw CSS. If that’s all geek to you, take a look at the screenshots below. What do you think? Clearer than the current version? More cluttered?
We’d really, really like to hear your thoughts on this. If nothing else, it’ll provide much-needed ammo to one side of the font size argument. Do you think the fonts should, in general, be larger? Click on the thumbnails below to see the full-sized images.
And if you’re having trouble spotting the difference, check out the left-hand menu of this page and compare it to the full-sized screenshot. We’ve brought up the size a couple of pixels and the same with the body text, the second screenshot shows this best.
Homepage Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)
Text Page Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)
Search Results Mocked Up With Larger Font (Click Image for Full-Size Version)
A short(ish) opinion piece I wrote, suggesting recruiters should spend some quality time marketing companies to candidates and examining why specialist recruitment boards work better… 
“The effects of the rising oil price are, as yet, not something that’s keeping new media types up at night. However, companies operating in the knowledge economy are facing a fuel shortage of their own, the brains that supply, develop and apply this knowledge.
The pace of development has accelerated almost as quickly as the invention of the new buzzwords: Web 2.0, social networking, web services, folksonomy to name just a few. Many of the country’s top agencies have experienced tremendous growth over the last 18 months and that’s happened before any of this bleeding edge technology makes much of an impact commercially.
