Desirable candidates for foreign universities and international companies
Recently, a large international corporation posted a job advert. The recruitment task for the final two candidates was for each to talk in favour of the other. In other words, they were asked to sell the skills of their rival, convincing the prospective employer that their rival was more suited to the role than themselves. […]
How do we define the virtual workplace and why is it important for us to familiarise ourselves with it?
What we consider to be a virtual workplace is usually hosted on the internet using specific platforms and software. A virtual workplace is “built” by a company that employs personnel from all over the world and trains them in the way that they should use it. A virtual workplace can also be informal. For example, […]
Technological Unemployment A modern epidemic or an opportunity for change?*
The recession in Greece and the credit crunch in the UK, the US in 2008 and Asia in 2015 share a common denominator. The largest building blocks of the economy had to make staffing cuts, not just because “the numbers didn’t work out”, but because they could. The reason businesses were and are able to […]
My timeline: Fri, 3/14 every 11
Looking back, looking ahead, Friday 14 March has always been the day of a new order! 🙂 Fri, 3/14 1970 Contract: Starburst Fri, 3/14 1981 Contract: Construction Man Fri, 3/14 1992 Contract: Need for Speed Fri, 3/14 2003 Contract: The rehearsal Fri, 3/14 2014 Contract: Human Nature TBC Copyright© 2014 Yannis Stergis Republication or use of part or all […]
Being a mother is not the most important job in the world – duh – of course not!
I’m rarely shocked any more. Still, life is full of surprises, and a little shock was waiting around the corner for me as soon as I woke up this morning. A friend’s post on Facebook had a link to an article by Catherine Deveny, Australian stand-up comedian and columnist. Please see her Wikipedia bio and […]
Why Goddess of Gourmet chose Greece for the crisis (if she had to)
Skopelos, our Mamma Mia island, turned out to be a real challenge on 14 Aug. Anna and Savvas had been spoilt rotten by their yiayia food wise. Emma and I had desperately tried to “re-intoduce” to them healthy eating, but, in vain. Any argument about the crisis, poverty and definition of abundance, just wouldn’t work. […]
When will the crisis be over? – A study on learning, unlearning and relearning.
By complete coincidence, in the past three days I happened to witness 6 conversations, all ending with “let’s hold on until the crisis is over…”! Living in Greece in 2010 to hear such statements is far from being unexpected. However, in all those cases, I was left with the same question mark; “what do they […]
The Guardian
Full page interview of Yannis Stergis on post crisis non-formal education in the Greece Special of The Guardian (May 2011) The Guardian 20.05.2011
Are you one out of many? Become one out of two!
It’s only simple maths. Being in a neighbourhood with 10 competitive foreign language schools, you are one out of ten. Quality factors and parameters may boost or repress your chances, so it’s pretty unlikely that you and your competitors will take a share of 10% of the local student population each. Still you are one […]
Can you choose your path within the field? Say, I CAN!
For the past few years that I have been writing this column, I have also implied that there are two different, however related, needs of the market that the average language school is serving. One is that of teaching a foreign language to the extent that the student is going to acquire it as a […]
