“Dress for the job you want, not the job you have!” is advice that many have heard time and again, often by mentors and parents, to encourage dressing up for the workplace. Read these guiding principles for the casual office…Read More
Architects: Redesign The World’s Most Remote Island Village
We all want to “get away from it all” from time-to-time but for 1 lucky Architect this wish will come true with a once in a lifetime opportunity to redesign the world’s most remote island village, the British ruled Tristan da Cunha. Read More
For Those That Love To Doodle At Work, Kirsten Camara Has The Perfect Desk For You
Built as an antidote to bad memory and those annoying scraps of paper and post-it notes, the brilliant “Analog Memory Desk” by design student Kirsten Camara is perfect for those who love to doodle, sketch and make notes (and plenty of them, this desk has over a kilometer of scrolling paper). Read More
Pact – How To Hire For A Job No-one Is Qualified To Do
When should you resort to an Ex-Factor-style bake off to interview for one of the most important roles in your start-up? The answer is when the person you’re hiring definitely won’t have any experience, and the only requirement is that they must have a deep love for flavour! Read More
How to Onboard for Employee Success: Hint (It’s Not With the Employee Manual)
Nothing can quash the excitement of the first day on a new job quite like being set up at your new desk and having a big fat employee manual dropped in front of you. Read More
Sage HQ (Newcastle) – The First FTSE100 To Be Mapped With Google Business View
Sage in Newcastle has become the first FTSE100 company to open its doors to Google Business View. Their global HQ to the north of the City is a £57m development providing 32,000m2 of space housing 1500 employees. Take a walk around their impressive offices which encompassing six blocks radiating from a central glazed atrium…Read More
Google’s New HQ Concept
Google recently announced a complete overhaul of its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Collaborating with the Danish architectural firm BIG and London-based design studio Heatherwick Studio Google aim to create a space for people, nature and ideas to thrive.Read More
Where Bond Villains Work – Pionen’s Underground Data Centre
Waterfalls, suspended conference rooms, 2600-liter salt water fish tank, greenhouses and German submarine engines, the only thing missing from this amazing data centre is a white long-haired cat and a Great White. Take a look around what Pinonen employees call “just another day in the office”Read More
This App Will Bring Out The Awesome Boss In You
From fake coffee shops that stream constant background noise (Coffitivity) to automatic workday scheduling apps (Timeful) we love a productivity app (the Isolator from 1925 has to be our favourite). The latest, Awesomeboss, is a new app designed to help you really get to know your staff…
This “Wine Label” CV Lands Marketing Exec a Dream Job At A Wine Company
When Bernadett Baji was thinking of applying for a marketing position at a leading wine distributor, her Designer friend suggested she turn her CV into a wine label instead of sending a traditional word document. Check out the fantastic results… Read More
10 Employee Appreciation Perks That Any Team Can Afford
Small and mid-sized companies sometimes feel they’ll never compete with their mammoth corporate counterparts because they can’t afford expensive benefits and perks like long weekend leadership retreats and family health care. But those huge companies don’t have the opportunity that small businesses do to tailor their perks and appreciation to the individual employees. Read More
Children’s Book Author & Illustrator, Richard Scarry, Explains the Modern Age
Faced with job titles such as Brogrammer, Innovation Strategist, Patent Troll and Ghost Blogger the modern age is awash with crazy career paths to the uninitiated! Thankfully Children’s Book Author and Illustrator, Richard Scarry has taken a side-step from kids books to launch Business Town. Read More
This London Agency Builds A Giant Ball Pit. Jump In!
When faced with over-demanding clients, high workloads and the odd boring meeting, work can sometimes get a bit stressful, right? To counter act this problem, Pearlfisher, a creative agency with offices in London and New York temporarily brought in 81,000 white balls, converting one of their studio spaces into a giant “stress-relieving” ball pit…Read More
Let’s Debate O-levels
Guru’s Marketing Director, Richard Hamilton, is interviewed by the BBC. Asked to discuss O-levels, GCSEs and careers advice, you can hear his slot on the “Good Morning” BBC Local Radio show here…Read More
This Portfolio Sticks Out Like A Sore Thumb
As creative portfolios go, this one by Toronto-based photographer Justin Poulsen literally sticks out like a sore thumb! Read More
Red Bull Daily Grind
The Red Bull Daily Grind is not your average 9 to 5! Converting the 23rd floor of a downtown Chicago office block into a unique Skatepark, the Red Bull Skate team reported for work. Read More
The 1947 Vocational Film to Becoming a Librarian
We love revisiting careers from a bygone era (Remember that chap who developed your holiday snaps) so when we stumbled across this vocational guide to becoming a Librarian (from 1947) it had to get a mention. Enjoy! Read More
Five Minutes With: Holly Potter – Innovation Expert at Bozboz
Taking five minutes out of her busy day, Guru caught up with Holly Potter (innovation expert and all round HR geek) at Bozboz, an uber friendly full service creative digital agency in Hove. Read More