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Navigating the Business Landscape
Beyond the Search: Market Mapping
Signium International Ireland was recently approached by an existing international client to conduct a market mapping exercise on a number of its competitors in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector in Ireland. Read more ....
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Clouds, Big Data, and Smart Assets: Ten Tech-Enabled Business Trends to Watch
Register for McKinsey’s free newsletter, McKinsey Quarterly, to read how advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Read more ....
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World Atlas
Canada - "The Least-Bad Rich Economy"
Despite our biggest trading partner, the United States, suffering a painful near-depression from which it is slowly recovering, Canada experienced a milder recession. This is somewhat tricky to understand given that 80 percent of our goods and services are exported to America, and we satisfy most of the States’ oil needs too! Read more ....
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Career Mapping
Digging in the Digital Dirt: Vet Yourself Online and Get Ahead of Unflattering Information
Consider these scenarios: A CEO sued his employer for breach of contract; a CEO was accused of discrimination and lost the case; a CEO's sexual proclivities became the hot-button topic in a nurse online chat room; and a hospital administrator received a conviction for driving under the influence. Each incident occurred, and each could be discovered by anyone with a computer or smart-phone and Internet access who enters the individual's name in a search engine. Read more ....
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Losing the Grip on a Healthy Work-Life Balance
In April this year BlueSteps.com, the executive career management service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), surveyed over 800 senior executives worldwide to discover the latest attitudes to work-life balance. (The Economist Intelligence Unit assisted with the development of survey questions.) Of those surveyed, over half reported that they currently do not have a satisfactory work-life balance – the highest dissatisfaction figure recorded since the survey began in 2006. Read more ....
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Lay of the Land
Trends in Signium Searches
Signium International has pulled through the difficult economic times by increasing searches worldwide by 43 percent in quarters 1 and 2 in 2010 vs. quarters 1 and 2 in 2009. The client base has improved with currently 39 percent more multinational clients compared to 2009. Specific industry-sector searches have improved remarkably, with 100 percent more searches in Industrial and Natural Resources and in Health Care and Pharmaceuticals. Signium partners look forward to working within these trends as our network continues to grow.
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Leading Inspiration
"The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize."
~ Elizabeth Harrison
"The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you."
~ William Arthur Ward
"The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."
~ Charles Schwab
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