Davey Wood Recommends

This is the first of what is likely to become an ongoing series of post - articles, and thoughts, from around the web that Davey Wood likes and recommends.

Today's recommendation is on the topic of Recruitment Agents:

The Curse of the Premature Evaluators

Movember Progress

"Thank you all very much.  For your records I look as follows.  Your contributions have totalled in excess of £300.  Thank you once again."

On Recruitment Agents

"Never underestimate the capacity that an employment agent has to be either ignorant or lazy.  The only multi-tasking they can do is combining the two tasks mentioned in the sentence previous.   And somehow when they do this multi-tasking the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts!"

"An HR department choosing Employment Agents...  You can only fear the very worst outcome there.  Talk about compounding risks.  Let's hope it's random instead.  Probably a better chance for justice."


And for any recruitment agents reading; he says such things "Lest how will these injustices stop?  Someone needs to cry out in angst for the public."

Raising Money For Charidee

"Hi All, I think I will participate in Movember. I’ll be looking neo-Edwardian after the weekend and may wear tweed in the future.

If you wish to support me via sponsorship then NYSE will equal your sponsorship pound for pound so I urge you to consider this, thank you very much.

http://www.justgiving.com/DavidJWood

No pressure but if you don’t sponsor me then you want men to get cancer.  Live with that…"

On learning of this blog

"I’ll need a Dictaphone on nights out then. That’s when the real genius happens ;¬)"


And a few days later...


"Why hasn’t Hollywood contacted me about making this into a movie yet? Surely I am the most entertaining man in the known universe?"

To The Same Friend From The Inaugural Post...

When said friend was getting impatient, while still waiting to hear feedback from a job application several days later:

"I refer the learned gentleman to my previous advice! Time will be creeping along very slowly for you because it's your number one priority and interest . However for the interviewers this decision will be just one thing on everyone's to do list. If they would normally know Monday night then 2 days delay is probably nothing to them. So relax and wait ;¬)"

Eating and Drinking: The Davey Wood Manifesto

1. "On a chubby note I have secured a table at Gordon Ramsay's hospital road in a few weeks time and Heston's new place in the Mandarin Oriental where I also intend to take cocktails. I will then buy a bigger belt..."
2. "Free booze is better than free cash."
3. "It's strange. You reach an age where you stop ordering burgers and sometimes that's not a wise age to reach."
4. "The curse of the drinking classes. Forgetting everything. Like those ideas on how to change the world and to make millions in the process!!!!"
5. "National chip week? Fried potato as opposed to silicon I take it? I'm not chowing down on a mother board for anyone with my elderly teeth..."

Mr. Wood's Top 6 Musings On Making Money

1. "This looking for work thing is trickier than it looks! Can't you shed a few pounds, have some prominent facial surgery, get fit, do your hair, work on your posture and then possibly do modelling?"
2. "If you want big bucks you should make an app where you can take 2 photos. One of person 1. One of person 2. It then merges them to show you what their ghastly adult child would look like  ;¬)"
3. "I would almost be tempted to go for that job myself. But I’m too lazy."
4. "You'd think that any bar in the city should be a gold mine. I wonder how much they cost?"
5. "I hate copper coins and want to start a petition to remove them leaving only 5p and above to spend. It’s well known that most people fear change."
6. "Once again I had to walk past St Pauls Cathedral. I can only say that the anti-capitalist demonstrators should be ashamed of themselves - at a cellular level."

Inaugural Post

To a friend waiting to hear if he got a job:

"Nice cup of tea. Read a book, write an app and let the hours pass without watching them ;¬) that's the key to survival!  Or drink yourself silly and get into a fight. That usually distracts the mind."

All this advice is free from http://www.daveywoodtellsyouhowitis.blogspot.com/