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Running for Our Lives - Donations Wanted

Get your plastic out, please - we're looking for donations. All in the name of charity, of course.

Yes, Martin G and Julie have formed a small team of 2 called PeopleMaps Athletic. We''re tackling the Meadows Half-Marathon in March in support of Sport Relief. The Meadows Marathon is run voluntarily by students of the University of Edinburgh, and 2008 will be its 2nd year. Last year they raised a whopping £10k for Sport Relief - their largest donation from a student body.

We've been running in atrocious conditions every morning with the goal of completing the route before the sun sets. This week we tackled extreme snow blizzards, flooding, torrential rain, hail storms, gale force winds and one day the sun even shone upon us.

But we don't want your sympathy - we want your CASH! Please click now and make a donation - and here comes the sales pitch : Sport Relief harnesses the power and passion of sport to change lives for the better. By doing sport, having fun and raising money, everyone can do good and feel good. Comic Relief spends the money to help vulnerable people living incredibly tough lives both at home in the UK and in the world's poorest countries.

You can make a difference - Donate Here

Mindplay. Another aspect of psychology.

Friday night saw our friend and super star, Drew McAdam entertain and amaze us. No spoons were safe, nor secrets, nor numbers, nor wee squiggly pictures. If you get a chance to catch his show I urge you to take it as it will open up your mind as to what psychology can achieve. Drew does Mindplay, please check out his web site for a more detailed explanation. All I can tell you was that were were all amazed and intrigued.

Psychology comes in many forms and is applied in many ways. PeopleMaps helps people understand themselves and others with Jungian psychology, drew uses it in another way entirely. An amazing evening. Thanks Drew.

Make your friends' day..... with Zubka

We're loving this from PeopleMaps' Partner, Zubka:

A brand new way for companies to find great staff, Zubka asks people like you to recommend friends and professional contacts to a huge range of UK and international jobs.

If the person you recommend takes the role, Zubka pays you a BIG cash reward.

As the world's most rewarding referral recruitment service, Zubka's rewards are huge - ranging from £1,200 to £12,000, with an average reward of £3,600 - for each and every job! These rewards are in addition to the £100 introduction fee Zubka referrers receive each time someone they introduce makes a successful referral. With over £2 million of rewards currently waiting to be claimed on the site, now is a great time to sign up and see how much you could earn.

Zubka is a great way make your friend's day by referring them to vacancies on Zubka - and earning you some extra cash in the process! If you want your friends to worship you forever and are currently looking for work, get them to sign up and recommend you for roles - but make sure they buy you dinner with their reward!

Click over to www.zubka.com today to explore and sign up.  Easy to use, fast and free, Zubka tells you the minute an interesting job pops up that would suit someone you know, and guides you step-by-step through the process. With jobs currently advertised by FT.com, New Look, Claire's Accessories, L'Oreal, Tesco.com Capgemini, and GlaxoSmithKline, it's a great time to join Zubka's referral recruitment revolution.

How to recruit the right person for the job

One of the biggest problems in industry is making sure everyone is doing the job they're best at. To solve this problem once and for all, the government set up a task force to conduct a comprehensive study of companies and come up with a way of matching job candidates against jobs. After months of research, the taskforce formulated an ingenious way of doing this.

What you do is: put a big pile of bricks in a room. Then put a few candidates in the room and observe them till 5pm and see what they get up to.

1. If they count the bricks, put them in the accounts department.
2. If they count the bricks, then recount them. Put them in auditing.
3. If they've separated out the chipped or broken bricks, put them in quality control.
4. If they've hidden all the chipped and broken ones and categorically deny their existence, put them in PR.
5. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
6. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order that defies logic, put them in planning.
7. If they have broken the bricks and come up with a reason no one can understand, put them in IT.
8. If they say they have tried everything, yet not a single brick has been moved. Put them in sales.
9. If they have already left for the day. Put them in marketing.
10. Finally, if they've had a long meeting but can't decide what to do with the bricks, give them a huge bonus and make them the board of directors.

Happy Friday! And thanks to Sunil Sharma for sending us that little ditty.

What Shape are you In?

Have you tried out the new fun personality quiz on Bupa World? We're loving it...

Bupa polled over 2000 people with questions about their existing jobs, and social and professional aspirations and found that more than 50 percent of respondents misjudged their personalities!

The Bupa poll is a bit of fun to support their new advertising campaign where they are using shapes to represent people and places - tying in a bit of light-hearted personality analysis which uses shapes and colours to represent personality traits.

Their survey found that in many cases we may not be making the most of our potential - working in unsuitable jobs or taking completely the wrong career paths.

We deal with this issue almost every day, as our jobseeker visitors struggle to manage their careers and seek guidance on their ideal job.

The good news for everyone out there is that the PeopleMaps Ideal Job report helps our customers figure out what they're best at and what they're best avoiding.

Go on and do your Bupa World questionnaire - it's fun and Bupa has promised to make a donation to charity for every unique visitor.