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It’s a good time to… stick your head out to get noticed when job hunting.

By Jonathan Krogdahl
Published: 12:05AM BST 23 Jul 2009

With an economy on the floor and not as many jobs today as there were yesterday, it is tough out there for the job hunter. If you are in work or not, now – more than ever before – you have to stick your head out to get noticed!

As an Australian I have grown up with the “tall poppy syndrome”. This means that, if you try to rise above your peers to get noticed, the great mass you leave behind do all that they can to bring you back down to their level.

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A report published in the Daily Telegraph identified that 1,000 bogus CVs were sent out to test

whether candidates with ethnic minority sounding names were treated differently from those with names that sounded British.
According to the DWP, the purpose is not to name and shame companies but to identify the
problem and tackle underlying causes.  The results will be published later on in the year.
However, it has been suggested that this may lead to laws which mean applicants can’t be
asked for their names until interview stage.

source: Crich Consulting

Precision’s Award Entry for the Leicestershire Business Awards 2009

Another chance to see our video award entry which was played at the Leicestershire Business Awards 2009.

The heavy focus on cost-cutting through layoffs, salary and hiring freezes may mean many European businesses are setting themselves up for problems in the medium term.

A survey by consultants Watson Wyatt of 200 companies from across Europe and the Middle East found 43% (52% of UK companies) have taken action to reduce permanent workers. Most have also sought to hold down pay, with more than 70% looking to reduce their budgeted pay increases in response to the current economic climate.

“These are clearly sensible measures in these uncertain times but our concern is around how companies appear to be using their limited pay budgets,” said Carole Hathaway, European head of strategic reward consulting at Watson Wyatt.

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A wave of optimism is surging through Leicestershire businesses for the first time in months, a survey has shown.

More than half of 30 firms questioned by the Leicester Mercury said they were noticing the “green shoots of recovery”.

After months of economic gloom, businesses reported a rise in exports while one had begun to re-hire people previously made redundant. All stressed they were looking to the future with “cautious optimism”.

The Mercury poll comes as a new quarterly report by Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce into businesses in the county found trade has risen and jobs were safer.

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A firm which provides hi-tech measuring systems to help aircraft and car makers save money is creating 30 jobs after winning a £1.4m investment.

Phase Vision, a spin-out company from Loughborough University, has secured the money to boost production and sales. Its technology – which provides quick and highly-accurate measurements of airplane wings and car parts using beams of light – has been used for several years by a major aircraft manufacturer and on the production lines of an unnamed car manufacturer in the UK.
Now, the firm wants to bring the product – which sells for up to £100,000 a time – to a wider audience.

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