Walter L. Schindler, PhD, JD has 38 years of legal experience as an attorney specializing in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings of securities, including 19 years at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a Partner for 12 years, including serving as the managing partner of the Orange County Office from 1996 to 1999, the highest growth period in that office’s history to date. He was the Founder of SAIL Capital Partners LLC, an early US pioneer in sustainable investment, and now the CEO of Transformation LLC, which focuses on the convergence of technology and e ..read more

The field of recruitment is changing all the time as new technology makes it easy for people to find jobs and start new careers. If you’re searching for a new job, you should know about these three trends in recruitment. Having Future Proof Skills Candidates and businesses are increasingly thinking about the future. The workplace is changing faster than ever before, so it’s important that your skills remain useful two, five, or ten years down the line. Transferable skills allow employees to grow and develop, rather than remain in one static field. As new trends and technology come into th ..read more

Increasingly efficient BMPs are making CRMs the ‘horse and buggy’ on the technological super highway You can take statements like “studies reveal…” with a grain of salt when you see them or read about them. I know I do, but I’m going to have to break with my own rules for a second here and share something with you that I found recently: there have been studies conducted recently which revealed an increasing level of lost sales due to Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs). On top of this, the same surveys have shown significant numbers in business wanting more efficient processes ..read more

Industry sites, blogs and social media postings for people in the recruitment field will have varying opinions about how to solve the various challenges being faced throughout the industry today. That’s the thing about opinions: everybody’s got one. But at the heart of it, you’ll find that there’s a near-universal agreement on what these problems are. Most will agree that the evergreen problems and challenges in the industry are the same. Market fluctuations is a big one – when there’s more talent than jobs, or more jobs than talent. Or dry spells. Sometimes, it’s a buyers’ market. This c ..read more

I have long been a passionate advocate for using technology to simplify talent acquisition and solve a variety of business woes.  Historically, my roles have seen me craft solutions from a wide range of technologies to solve challenges from data driven attraction strategies to headcount and cost reductions, admin automation and even uplifting candidate experience. The future though, is not founded on piecemeal combinations of a technical patchwork but something far more comprehensive. Recruiting professionals today are facing into a very different future with the exponential growth of tech ..read more

Not sure if you should start your own podcast? Will it be worth your time? Do you have a message to share? How do you set up the equipment? Is it complicated? Will I be able to keep creating enough content? Will anyone listen to it? If you have ever asked any of these questions, or you are now, this article should give you clarity, and the steps to creating a great show and powerful brand around you. I wish someone would have given me this info 3 years before I started my podcast the “Disruptive Entrepreneur”. I should have started it sooner, but I didn’t know what I didn’t know.. I hope th ..read more

When it comes to creating a successful podcast, it takes more than using a basic audio recorder and uploading it to SoundCloud. It requires strategic planning, quality equipment, engaging speakers, superior recording and editing software, appropriate space and knowledge of the best platforms to host your podcast. All of these requirements can be quite daunting when you start a podcast, but if you can get them right then you’ll quickly get your listeners. So, without further ado let’s get into the do’s and don’ts of creating the prefect podcast: 1. Room Setup DON’T: Use a room that has glas ..read more

In November last year, an investigation by BBC Panorama, on the lack of sufficient regulation in the use of medical devices, drew attention to the safety concerns around using ‘textured’ silicone breast implants.The programme revealed the link between the most commonly used textured implants in the UK and the likelihood of patients developing a rare form of breast cancer. Despite French authorities advising surgeons to stop using textured implants for breast augmentation, followed by a total ban of the implants in France earlier this month, they are still available for women in the UK. This ..read more

Mike Brockman is a maverick in the stuffy world of insurance. He turned 61 last year and in the same year started up a new tech business – ThingCo – to help us all drive more safely, following almost a decade at the helm of insurethebox – the telematics insurance provider.  In 2008 he was awarded with a lifetime achievement award by the non-life actuarial profession and two years later he founded insurethebox at a time when everyone was saying that black box insurance would never work. He proved them wrong selling more than 800,000 policies during his time.   Not one to rest on his laurels wh ..read more

Social media and cosmetic surgery are two inventions that have created a lot of positive changes in the way we live today – but both have been accompanied by serious risks that can be extremely harmful to vulnerable people who are exposed to them in the wrong way. At Cosmetic Surgery Solicitors, we’ve been concerned for some time that the spread of social networking and cosmetic procedures are feeding off each other in a way that’s putting the health and wellbeing of young people at risk – which is why we’ve launched a new campaign to shed light on the dangers these twin trends might be pos ..read more