In the wake of YouTube’s massive success, online video is one of the biggest growth areas on the web, and this site is the first I’ve seen to bring video to the realm of online job-hunting. You can upload a short clip introducing yourself (and your skills) to would-be employers, and then add the address to your textual job applications.
It won’t replace a conventional text-based CV, but it could certainly help employers weed out some unsuitable candidates without having to go through time-consuming interviews.
One to watch (both literally and metaphorically)!
You have around 48 hours left to submit your votes for the 10 finest Scottish singles of all time irrespective of musical genre. Thus Andy Stewart is as likely to appear as Franz Ferdinand, Lena Zavaroni as much as the Cocteau Twins, the Bay City Rollers as much as the Blue Nile.
While I’m disappointed that Lord Rockingham is yet to enter the Top 25, I’m delighted to see that my own favourite – Obscurity Knocks by the Trashcan Sinatras was place at #11 at the start of February!
Here are a couple of sites to help streamline a couple of important parts of office life.
I Made It Last is an automatic online tea rota designed to ensure that all team-members take their turn at getting the hot drinks in. Register by entering a user name, Password, Email address, and your chosen beverage – plus milk & sugar requirements. When you want a drink, just click on ‘Order’ and as soon as a set number of orders have been placed, the site sends an email to the next name on the rota, telling him or her "it’s your turn to make the drinks".
Who’s Off is probably the more genuinely useful (and more sophisticated) service. It’s a fully-featured online staff holiday planner, which lets employees submit their leave requests online, and automatically calculates their remaining holiday allowance and whether their requested dates clash with leave already booked by colleagues.
Tonight from 2100-2230 Dermot O’Leary is live from the backstage enclosure at Earls Court talking to the winners and nominees at this year’s BRITs. I’ll be hiding in the backstage enclosure taking pictures for Radio 2’s BRITs minisite so keep an eye on our BRITs pages later to see Dermot hob-nobbing with the stars. You can also win a guitar Signed by all of Dermot’s star guests.
Top-notch reference source The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has been offering selected audio biogs of notable figures in podcast form since the start of 2007. Why not send your beloved a Barbara Cartland (Queen of Hearts) or Bobby Moore (King of Clubs) Valentine-friendly podcast!