Mindless Motives

Every so often, one has a little look around for jobs in business intelligence. You know, the kinds of jobs that you dream about as a young chap.

Kd Recruitment offer: 

As specialists in the supply of human resource to the Information and Knowledge Managent industry, our consultants’ aim is to attract the best this industry has to offer. Our carefully managed database gives us access to the most qualified candidates, including those who aren’t necessarily actively looking for work. Our resourcing and candidate searching is conducted via our finely tuned in-house database and through traditional recruitment methods rather than relying on the ‘me too’ online job boards.

We have a great core strength of knowledge and experience that we utilise to simplify the recruitment experience for our clients and candidates alike. We don’t profess to understand your business from the word go, but we do realise the importance of taking the time to find out. We also take the time to ask not just about your immediate needs, but your longer term goals. We like to listen and we like to learn.

We do however understand the recruitment business inside out and employ the best processes to benefit our clients, something that will become apparent from the very first time you ask us to work on a vacancy.

We are well aware of some of the frustrations experienced in dealing with recruitment agencies, and as such, we offer the following guarantees to every client that we engage with:

• We offer a market leading rebate scheme in that we will refund 100% of our fee if a permanent employee that we place leaves their employment, for any reason, within the first 90 days of their employment with you. 

• All of our candidates undergo at least two separate telephone interviews with different consultants before we submit them to our clients

• We scrutinise our candidates’ CV and describe the role we have in mind for them in great detail, ensuring that not only are their skills relevant to the position, but also that they have a genuine interest in being put forward to the client.

• Wherever geographically possible we will meet our candidates in person

• We initiate our candidate referencing process at the earliest opportunity in order to identify any career history discrepancies

• We work closely with our candidates through the job offer / resignation process, ensuring that a very high proportion of our candidates who are offered positions accept the offer

• We will be open and honest in all of our dealings with you

• We will ensure we have agreed terms in place with you before we begin work on any assignment

We keep the following statement in mind in every communication we have, written or verbal, every single day:

In the recruitment industry we have two customers – clients and candidates. Without both we are nothing.

For more information visit the link (at the top of the page) :)

Information on Ellis Exeter - Exeter Watchmaker:

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The Ellis family were well known maker’s in Exeter, being the father Henry and two sons, Henry Samuel and William Horton. Henry Ellis was born in 1790 and died in 1871. He worked alone up until circa 1850 when his son Henry Samuel joined him, a partnership that lasted until 1854 when the two sons joined together to form the partnership of Ellis Brothers. The three of them exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 held in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London.

Henry Ellis left us with a wonderful autobiography which gives details of his working life, mentioning he became an apprentice clockmaker due to his friendship at school with the son of the well known clockmaker John Tucker who was looking for an apprentice. When he left to leave his home and move in with Tucker his mother and sister observed the time-honoured custom of throwing an old shoe after him for luck! After finishing his apprenticeship he spent a time working with William Upjohn in Clerkenwell, London, Upjohn having moved from Exeter himself.

 

Ellis finally opened his first shop at 263, High Street, Exeter in May 1814 before moving a number of times including to 246, High Street directly opposite his great rival John Skinner! As he became more important within the city, he was a churchwarden and collector of parish taxes amongst other things, he persuaded Charles Cross (the maker of this movement) to join him in April 1818 and with whom he worked closely. In 1821 he states ‘I am now busily employed with my workman Cross in the construction of a new regulator..’ being the one he used in his shop. By 1828 clockmaking was becoming secondary to watchmaking & the retail side of the business and Charles Cross left to set up at his own home in Guinea Street where he continued to do clock jobbing work for Ellis. Henry Ellis’ wife died in 1844 and he took a less active role in the business leaving that to his son Henry who was known to make items of jewellery for Queen Victoria thus allowing Ellis to have the Royal Coat of Arms placed above the shop in 1848. Henry Ellis remarried at Shaldon, Devon in 1850 and finally gave up his business to his sons in 1854. He died on the 18^th of July, 1871.

 

* Ellis’ memoirs were started in the late 1840’s and consisted of eight hand written volumes, each 400 pages long and were the basis of his fascinating autobiography which can be read in Clive Ponsford’s ‘Devon Clocks and Clockmakers’, published by David & Charles, but at present out of print. (source)

By the Silver Hallmarks on the Case: I can accurately pinpoint the case age at 1870 - made by a “James Oliver” of Clerkenwell London. 

The Movement:

• “Ellis” engraved lower left (apologies for the poor image)
• “Exeter” engraved top
• Any information on the movement - please feel free to contact me tibtib123@googlemail.com

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Glasses Corp offer an incredible selection of both designer prescription glasses & sunglasses for men and women. Buying Designer glasses online has never been easier, so if you’re looking to update your eyewear and…

Glasses Corp are a business that specialise in selling Designer Prescription Sunglasses and Glasses - they are my site of the month.

From the Website:

Glasses Corp offer an incredible selection of both designer prescription glasses & sunglasses for men and women. Buying Designer glasses online has never been easier, so if you’re looking to update your eyewear and make a saving, you have come to the right place.

All our online designer glasses are the same quality as ones you will buy at any high street opticians or outlet store, we also sell ski & snow goggles giving a range for everyone.

Our friendly customer service team and opticians here at Glasses Corp are available to help you every step of the way whether its your holiday sunglasses or prescription glasses for every day use  we will ensure too find the right eyewear for you.

Personally, I’m all in favour of a pair of Ray Ban Clubmaster Glasses:

They look ace and I’m pretty sure £78.40 (with prescription lenses) is perhaps the best deal in the market place right now.

When it comes to courting controversy this summer lingerie has created a little bit of a stir. Watch it and think. On Creative Review commenter Gemma has made a great point:

On the strength of that short, I will never buy Damaris underwear. How am I, as their target demographic supposed to feel about that film? Now, I totally understand that certain underwear is designed not to be worn for comfort and support but for fun & games, but what on earth was Justin Anderson trying to achieve? Agent Provocateur produces similar garments yet their advertising depicts the wearer as in control of her own sexuality- Damaris has allowed Justin Anderson to reduce their potential audience to a wet bum. well done, someone get that product manager a cigar…However, I think the saddest thing about that piece of work (sadder even than a woman spliced in half and identified only by her bottom & front bum) is that I feel prudish saying that I find this unacceptable.

Any Thoughts Tumblrites?