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Matthew de la Hey is the co-founder and CEO of inploi, a community-driven marketplace, enabling people to discover and apply for hospitality jobs with London’s best employers. Matthew and inploi have spent a good amount of time, thinking and researching around the topics related to the Taylor Review.  Matthew has also talked at an University of Oxford Future of Work even...
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Robots eh, it seems they will have a lot of explaining to do, when they have stolen all of our jobs. Or perhaps the robots that built the robots that stole all of our jobs, will have a lot of explaining to do....Or the robots that designed the robots, that built the robots…. Fear of job automation is currently at fever point... so what better way to play the ol’ doomsday scenario, th...
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Previously published on LinkedIn, this excellent article from Ralph Charlton - now owner of Charlton Communications, highlights his journey from 'corporate world' to becoming self employed and 15 subsequent lessons he learnt along the way.... "A little over a year ago I left corporate life and decided to go it alone - from running a FTSE 100 corporate communications department...
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Allison Grant an employment lawyer who has advised SMEs for over 20 years highlights some key points on how to attract talent in an SME..."As an employment lawyer who has advised SMEs for over 20 years I have become familiar with the reasons why talented employees remain with a business, and the triggers that cause them to leave. SMEs rely heavily on talented employees to help them grow.  Gr...
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Startacus HQ is delighted to announce the launch of our new digital content agency,The Key Tappers. It specialises in creating digital content for the Enterprise, Technology, and Employment sectors, and utilises the skills, expertise, passion, and flair of the Startacus team which has developed over the past number of years. Digital content has become one of  the primary means of effective...
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A few weeks ago we chatted with David Jackson a young professional who had taken the leap and made a career change when he transitioned into a role at a London-based startup. But this career transition hadn't occurred by chance; we learned that David had gone through an extensive training program at Startup Institute London. Startup Institute, with 3 hubs in the US and 2 European bases, in Berli...
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Employment 101 for startups Are you a startup in the process of taking on your first employees? Well, this’ll be of interest then - we asked Serena Manzoli entrepreneur and founder at Wildcat a free legal database for creatives and freelancers, to give us her Employment 101 for startups... “Your startup is doing well, there’s a lot of work to do and you have thought of hiri...
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) had the rare pleasure of announcing last week that self employment has increased to its highest level in over 40 years. Obviously this is incredibly welcome news here at Startacus, but we have to admit that even we were somewhat surprised by the announcement. For so long now, all we seem to be hearing is that economic indicators point to slow recovery foll...
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In the current era, women experience better equality to men than ever before. Many jobs that were once deemed suitable only for men are now available to women if they so choose, as they can now become mechanics, plumbers and electricians. There are so many different career options out there for women and these should be explored in order to find something professionally fulfilling and to meet the ...
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Welcome to the first ever Startacus monthly legal news round-up, courtesy of Net Lawman expert advsior Thomas Taylor.  In the coming months he will be casting his eye over some of the key legal news stories affecting small businesses.. there's loads of cruicial info to get through so here is the march edition.  New consumer rights laws are likely to change how you sell to your customers ...
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