It’s official, we are currently facing some of the toughest job market conditions ever recorded, and boy , is it competitive out there at the moment!  Jobhunters, whether experienced project professionals or fresh graduates, are becoming ever more desperate and as a result, many are applying to roles they might not usually have been interested in, which of course further drives up competition for the relatively few opportunities that are currently available. Read the rest of this entry »

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: INITIATION “BARBAROSSA”

Late in 1940 the Soviet government was starting to get concerned that the country was in danger of German invasion despite the signing of a peace treaty with the Nazis in 1939.  The suspicions were initially aroused because Hitler began to accumulate a significant number of motorized, infantry and tank divisions in the vicinity of the Soviet-German border.
However German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop continued to insist that those troops were simply preparing for the Operation Sealion – the invasion of England. Read the rest of this entry »