Today it has been announced in the press that unemployment for 16-24 year olds is at a high (1) As unemployment has increased to 2.62 million, over a million of these are in the 16-24 age group, or NEETS (Not in Employment, Education or Training). This is a shocking statistic.…
Talk Radio Europe
I gave a live radio interview this morning on Talk Radio Europe. You can listen again here – it starts at 33 minutes. If you were listening and didn’t catch all of the details, these are the books and website that I mentioned. And do check out the website HowPublishingReallyWorks.com. If…
What will happen if you go off sick?
What will happen if you go off sick? It’s a good question and one that you’ve probably never asked yourself, unless you wanted to throw a ‘sickie’. Most people I’ve met in publishing love their jobs far too much to throw sickies very often, but if you were really ill,…
Why you should never go into work after an accident…
This is why you should never go into work after an accident. I was involved in what I thought was a minor car accident on my way to work on 19th April 2006. It was a rear end shunt, involving 3 cars, and I was the last car doing the…
Leaving Publishing
You may find this hard to believe, but at one time in my career I was 3 weeks away from leaving publishing. It was February 1991 and I was employed at then Random Century (soon to be renamed Random House) as Group Permissions Controller. I’d been there for 5 months…
The Apprentice and the wrong kind of manager
As yet another series of The Apprentice draws to a close, I am starting to notice a disturbing trend: Managers within companies are to talking to their staff as per the ‘behaviour’ on reality tv programmes. Reality tv programmes may, from time to time, make great television; but they don’t demonstrate good…