Think of each and every job applicant your organisation has had over the years and consider how you handled each and every one of them. Did you ensure that the job applicant’s first impression of the company was positive? Was the experience of those who were not employed positive too?
The damage done by the financial crisis of 2008 to the image of business is mostly unrepairable.
I am all for continuous professional development (CPD) and I do believe that an ongoing process of learning is crucial for the progression of any career or profession.
There is more than ample evidence that boards of directors in Malta are steadily, although quietly, changing. A number of factors have contributed to this.
In today’s job market organisations are facing the reality of an increasingly mobile workforce. The promise of a stable income is no longer attractive enough to keep employees from moving from one employer to the next.
For a time, a number of former senior bank executives and semi-retired accountancy firm partners were being regularly contacted to sit on boards of newly registered companies with foreign shareholders.
