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    How To Start Your Own Business - PROPERCORN’s Co-Founder, Cass Stavrou, Shares Her 11 Tips

    Cassandra Stavrou, co-founder of PROPERCORN, spent months planning her healthy popcorn concept, before launching what is now the UK’s fastest growing snack brand in October 2011. PROPERCORN has shaken up the healthy snack market with its colourful packaging and inventive flavours, but it’s been a long journey from the first seeds of the idea to the shelves of Waitrose. To celebrate teaming up with set-designer Rachel Thomas to launch some colourful installations across London, Cass shares her

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    How to cope with boring meetings

    Got any meetings coming up this week? You'll be lucky if you haven't. The average British worker will sit through 6,240 meetings in the course of their career, a survey has revealed. But of the 2,000 workers studied by headset

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  • BusinessAOL

    Sacked for a Facebook 'like' but wins £32k at tribunal

    Alan Blue, a 51-year-old former meat hygiene inspector from Lanarkshire, has been awarded £32,799.13 by an employment tribunal. He had been sacked from his job at Wishaw Abattoir by the Food Standards Agency over a typo and an inadvertent

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    Why Mondays really are the worst day of the week

    Researchers have come up with the least surprising finding of recent years: Monday is the least productive day of the week. Apparently we start too tired, with the wrong mindset, and spend most of the day trying to catch up after the weekend.

  • BusinessAOL

    Huge increase in employment total

    The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance has fallen to a near two-year low after a huge increase in employment, new figures show. Almost 30 million people were in work at the end of 2012, an increase of 154,000 on the quarter to

  • BusinessAOL

    How to write a successful CV that will get you a job

    Robert Schlesinger/PA Amid the current highly competitive job market, a well-written CV has never been more important. From the font and layout to the content and language - here's how to write a winning CV and improve your chances of

  • BusinessAOL

    How to ace an interview

    PA In today's tough job market with every vacancy attracting a flurry of applicants, securing a job interview is often an acheivement in itself. Yet interviews are tough and even seasoned professionals can panic under pressure. So what are