We have featured some pretty impressive resumes in the past (Skateboard CV / Board Game CV / Infographic CVs) but it appears that Robby Leonardi’s Nintendo inspired, interactive Super Mario CV may just pip them all. Read More
Do Graduates Earn More Money?
Students have grabbed the headlines in recent months with their view on tuition fees. With this in mind I wanted to take a quick objective look at the true cost of a University degree and the affects of future earnings in the employment market… Read More
Experience Your Customer Service Cake And Eat It!
Want a first class employer brand? Then the experience you give your customers / candidates is key. Tony Layton, MD of Words&Pictures (an agency that helps organisations communicate better), shares his thoughts on the “experience economy”… Read More
Google’s New Tel Aviv Office Is Kosher
Based over 8 floors, with a gym, orangery, breathtaking city and sea views, 3 Kosher restaurants and over 50% of space dedicated to communal areas – take a look around Google’s stunning new Tel Aviv office…Read More
Alec Dudson – An Intern Kickstarting A Career
Mid July means intern season, with graduates out to gain that invaluable work experience to give them a taste of life in the real world (asides from making tea and collecting the lunch order). With some interns bagging an experience of a lifetime (amazing internships at Google or Facebook), many just receive a polite thank you and a LinkedIn recommendation. Read More
Creative Examples of Recruitment Advertising
Recruitment advertising is mostly done online these days, however, you can still find a few creative old school recruitment advertising examples out there, as these employers and agencies demonstrate… Read More
Albert Einstein’s Time Sheets From 1943/44
When Albert Einstein wasn’t working on his theory of relativity he took regular work like everyone else, check out these time sheets from 1943/1944 when, during World War II, Albert Einstein worked as a part-time government employee developing underwater weapons for the U.S. Navy. Read More
Check In At Foursquare’s Trendy New SoHo HQ
It appears, that like its users, Foursquare is going places. Expanding from 20 people to over 100 in the last couple of years they have now just taken over 56,000 sq ft of SoHo office space in New York City to cope with their phenomenal growth… Read More
‘The Game of Design’ – A CV That Is Actually A Board Game
Infographic CVs are now the norm, but Jenny Johns a design graduate from Minnesota raises the bar with her board game CV complete with dice, tokens, instructions and even game cards… Read More
Google’s Tokyo Office
Influenced by Japanese festivals, Google’s Tokyo office comes complete with bathhouses, authentic yatai (mobile food stalls), a hairy cafe, fish ponds and timber houses. Read More
Airbnb’s Quirky New San Francisco HQ (complete with a war room and a bear)
From treehouses and boats to beach bungalows and French Villas the Holiday rental startup, Airbnb, have drawn inspiration from their coolest listings to create a stunning quirky yet homely office to house it’s 200 employees. Read More
Remember that chap who developed your holiday snaps?
Remember the clerk at the local video store, or the person who used to develop your holiday snaps? Put together by Lapham’s Quarterly, Working Revolutions is a neat little grid matrix highlighting career automation over the past 200+ years… Read More
The Newt Judge Experiment – Is Working Drunk Actually Better?
In his first assignment as the new contributing Editor of the Drum, Dave Birss embarked on an alcohol fuelled employment experiment to find out whether working drunk makes you more creative. Read More
Google’s Super Cool New London HQ (Complete With Allotment On The 9th Floor)
Described as a hybrid of a London Townhouse and those woolly things found in a granny flat, take a look around what Google say is “just another day in the office”… Read More
Adidas’s Latest Employer Branding Video – Make Greatness Happen
Its hard work inventing the future of sport! Adidas deliver a powerful message through this well crafted employer branding video…Read More
Future Work Skills 2020
So what skills do you think the average job seeker will need in 2020? Well, a Californian based quango, the Institute for the Future (IFTF), recently released a report entitled Future Work Skills 2020. Take a look at their predictions… Read More
Google’s Shoreditch “Campus” Is The Perfect Space For Tech Start-Ups
Google have launched Campus, a shared workplace for startup technology companies in the Silicon Roundabout area of London (Shoreditch’s answer to Silicon Valley)… Read More