You’ve applied for your dream job, you’ve been offered an interview and now you’re terrified. Your mind is filled with doubt that you’ll fail to impress your interviewers and fall at the final hurdle....

The penny dropped with employers a long time ago that old ways of recruiting staff were no longer working. Inviting applicants to send in their CVs, whittling them down to the best handful and then sp...

Aileen Carmelo is the friendly, ever-helpful receptionist behind the booking desk at the Alpine Slopes Lodge in Summit County, Colorado. The 36-year-old welcomes every guest with a warming smile and s...

A story published last week about a Ryanair flight being grounded after some passengers started bleeding from their ears was another opportunity for conspiracy theorists to pronounce upon one of the g...

The summer holidays have intervened, thankfully to give most of the country a rest from endless ruminations about Brexit. While everyone will doubtless welcome a much-needed break from the political m...

We put our lives in the hands of airline pilots and sometimes they behave like naughty adolescents. This week a vaping pilot on board an Air China Boeing 737 caused his plane to make an emergency desc...

The #MeToo movement may have been inspired by the shocking experiences of women in the entertainment industry but nowhere has the clammy hand of sexism reached further than in the notoriously testoste...

I visited a French restaurant for dinner with a group of friends on Saturday night and we ended up walking out. After waiting to be served for 45 minutes, we ordered a bottle of white wine that arrive...

The warning by Airbus that it could be forced to pull out of the UK in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit has, inevitably, descended into a partisan squabble about who should and shouldn’t shut up. The a...

Big sporting events like the football World Cup can be very effective in bringing together office staff, providing a focus around which colleagues can gather and share a bit of fun. If your country’s ...