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How to Conduct a Health & Safety Training that Employees Love

As an employer or employee, you will surely be familiar with the typical reaction from staff when the subject of health and safety training comes up. People’s eyes glaze over immediately and they may even take on the physical appearance of a child who has been sent to tidy their bedroom.

Considering how difficult it can be to find anyone able to recall attending a health and safety training session that was anything like fun or engaging this is to be fair, quite an understandable reaction.

Health and safety training sessions have a bad reputation. Staff will tell each other how they sat watching power point presentations for hours, just to learn how to pick up a box on a manual handling course, whilst others will be able to tell you exactly what type of biscuits they were offered during the breaks but have no idea what the trainer was droning on about all day because their brain switched off shortly after arrival. Click Here to Read Article …

How to Answer “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?”

Dominic Wake 12th October Career 2 Comments

I’m sure you’ve been asked this question at an interview at some point in your life.

Coming straight from the ‘stock questions to ask interview candidates’ manual, the “Where do you see yourself” question sits neatly alongside “What’s your greatest weakness?” and “How would you deal with a difficult situation?”

It’s a lazy employer who asks one of these ‘difficult’ questions. Both sides could probably just as well do the interview over the phone and save everyone a lot of time!

Unfortunately, if you want the job you’re going to have to sit through these painful interviews and prepare to give the same stock answer. Click Here to Read Article …

How to Conduct a Health & Safety Training that Employees Love

How to Answer “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?”

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