Category: Podcast

This week, we’re back at Britannica Digital Learning to meet the people behind the product and to find out ‘what makes a great team’.  We start our conversations with Caroline Kennard, the International Business Development Director. We ask Caroline whether cultural fit is more important than a degree.  The answer might surprise you! Our journey…

This week we’re talking to John Edward, who is the Director of the Scottish Council for Independent Schools. We touch on a wide range of topics relating to education and what the future looks like for students entering the workplace of the future. John has a unique viewpoint on education and provides fascinating insights.  He…

This week we’re talking with Britannica Digital Learning, and their Senior Vice President of Digital Learning, Leah Mansoor.  Britannica, formerly known in the analogue world as Encyclopedia Britannica is one of the companies dedicated to reliable and verifiable information online.  In a world awash with fake news, access to a reliable and verifiable toolkit has…

In this week’s show: We turn our attention to the USA, and a company voted number 4 by Forbes in the recruitment industry.  Vaco recruitment provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier…

In this week’s show: We have a shining example of how to treat employees, and a notable -success on the challenged high street– the two couldn’t possibly be linked, could they Darren Burns, UK National Recruitment Ambassador for Timpson, delivers real insight into how they will continue to hire a socially diverse workforce. Delivering a…

In this week’s show…. We have an exclusive interview with a young European named Elisabetta.  A young Italian who is working and living in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.  Elisabetta shows how to study and earn good money at the same time, without breaking into a sweat  – well, just a little bit.  Happy at work and…

In this week’s show We have an exclusive interview with Alexander Lowry.  Alexander is Executive Director of the M.S. in Financial Analysis Program at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.  Alexander is a seasoned executive with over 15 years’ experience in financial services and strategy consulting, assisting private and public sector companies aross North America and…

In today’s program: We examine the different earning projections depending on whether you go to University or not. We look at a some dodgy practices as Universities advertise themselves to would be students. And finally, we recount the heartfelt plea of a long distance trucker who fears he will lose his job to robots. Job…

In today’s program: We examine how AI will affect the law profession in the future, with details of an experiment where Lawyers were defeated by the bots. We look at a situation where a human was able to beat the AI, even though the AI was able to perform far more calculations and moves than…

In today’s program: We examine the job implications  of alpha go’s historic defeat of humans at the ancient game of Go. We look at one young person’s rubbish experience of a modern apprentice in the U.K And finally we examine Bill Gates predictions for job losses through robotics and his proposed solution of a robot…