Unleash the Power of Your First JobCongratulations on landing your first 'career' job! Now it's time to transform it into the stepping stone to your extraordinary future.Discover the hidden secrets of the real work world that nobody ever shares with you in Your First Job. Seasoned entrepreneur Mark Blayney pours his invaluable wisdom, gained through hard-earned lessons from his own blunders, into this indispensable guide, giving you the competitive edge and the confidence t...

When times are good it's important to manage your banking to ensure funds for growth.When times are tough it's even more important to know how to manage your bank, as loss of their support can and will kill your business.Managing Your Bank Manager is your guide to making a success of this most critical of business relationships for you as a business owner and covers:1 Understanding Your Bank Manager2 Bank Dos and Dont's3 Borrowing from your Bank4 B...

Each year in the UK approximately half a million young people enter the world of work for the first time and begin to compete in their careers.And how well new starters cope with the pressures and demands of these early years of work can help determine how successful a career they will go on to have, and how far they will reach.But with Your First Job, new workers can get an unfair advantage over their contemporaries by quickly learning the real life techniques of how to ma...

Some people only ever sell their business once, usually when they are looking to retire. Others will find themselves selling their businesses a number of times during their careers as they move from one project to the next. But both types of people have one thing in common: they need to get the best deal possible out of the sale.This practical, commonsense book will help to secure the best result. Now updated and revised, it is in its 2nd updated edition. It offers first-hand advice on the...

Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver. This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: 'Invisibility' by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of Thomas Picton, Tyrant of Trinidad. Plus poems by Graham Mort and Carson Wolfe.

There is lots of advice around for starting a business, but less for when it is established but un-profitable, or gets into difficulties. This is a guide to help you when the going gets tough. It acts as a smoke detector - to help spot the early warning signs of approaching difficulty, and as a fire extinguisher - for immediate use in a crisis. It will help you to turn a business around by explaining: why businesses fail, how to spot the warning signs, key ways to stabilise your finances, ...

A survival guide for your first month at work.In starting work you will be joining about half a million young other people entering the world of work for the first time and starting to compete in your career.And you will be entering a world that's very different from what you've been used to in school or college where how well you cope can be vitally important for the rest of your careerFirst Job? Is here to give you an unfair advantage in getting off on the right fo...

The modern marketplace is increasingly unpredictable and there is an ever-greater need for non-financial managers to understand the financial and management accounting process.How to Understand Business Finance is part of the bestselling Creating Success series published in association with the Sunday Times, which has been translated into 25 languages with over 500, 000 copies sold. This book is written for those managing a business in a real market. It pr...

The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Covering themes ranging from love and death to sex and politics, there's a story about a girl from Tipp being kicked out of ISIS, a van powered by Cork people's accents and a man who drags a fridge on his back through Limerick.Whip-smart, provocative and animated by the author's unmi...

Deciding how to effectively reward staff is one of the most tricky and contentious areas in people management. Getting it right can help promote a motivated workforce, and significantly improve recruitment and retention. But how do you decided what pay scale is suitable for which job and how do you design reward packages which recognise contribution and encourage employees?The Reward Management Toolkit provides practical, step-by-step guidance on designing...

Why should you go to the trouble of creating a written business plan? There are three major reasons:The process of putting a business plan together, including the thought you put in before beginning to write it, forces you to take an objective, critical unemotional look at your business project in its entirety. The finished product your business plan is and operating told which, properly used, will help you manage your business and work toward its success. The completed business pl...

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign. Celebrated writers as Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott, alongside some of the newest young talent around - address a moment or event from their cho...