Every week my team and I receive hundreds of letters and CVs from young people wanting to work for Pimlico Plumbers. The number of CVs arriving in our post box is already ramping up as we are in the middle of exam season and students are considering what’s next for their education and careers.
If you were to pick up the Yellow Pages, turn to the plumbing, tiling or carpentry sections and begin randomly calling independent trades-people, chances are you’d have ran out of minutes, or possibly patience, before you got through to a woman.
Australians are renowned for being a relaxed race, whose primary interests include drinking beers and barbecuing prawns – so perhaps it’s no surprise that a bunch of University of Melbourne academics have concluded that over 40s shouldn’t work more than three days a week.
Entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes along the way, or learn from others who have made them before – it's all part of the journey we go through.
If you run a business where you can't afford to pay a proper wage, then you're not running a proper business.
Schools, colleges and universities aren’t making enough young people "world-ready", let alone "work-ready" and by the time they come to employers like me they may be hungry for a job, but they don’t often have the real skills they need to enter the workplace no matter how many bits of paper they bring after passing their exams.
I’ve been called a few things in my time, but, according to last week’s Sun newspaper, the latest is a "rough diamond" – a label I’m quite happy to take in the context of what I’ve achieved in my business career.
SMEs throughout the nation should adopt a progressive approach and voluntarily sign up to be part of any and all future gender pay gap plans, as full disclosure is a bare minimum for a group that accounts for over half of private sector jobs.
Even for medium-sized firms that have the luxury of a dedicated personnel department, one of the things that keeps entrepreneurs awake at night is how they can maintain a workforce that delivers on their vision for the enterprise.
I always love to see people embrace entrepreneurial spirit and start their own business. Britain has been a hotbed of enterprise for generations, which has continued, uninterrupted into the 21st century. But SME owners need to become more connected with each other to thrive.
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