An update – What’s happening in the Philippines. TIME YOUR HUNT FOR NEW PEOPLE Second week in December every employee in the Philippines get a Month’s pay, on top of their normal pay. This is is called the 13th Month Pay. Whilst it’s nice for the worker, it actually disrupts the job market. If you […]
Yes;- Mike’s Business Learning Tour has EVOLVED. Now, it’s a customised 2½ day Philippine specialised business growth learning tour. The NEW tour is modified to suit 1-6 participants. You start on any day to suit YOU – Monday to Thursday. As a rule you can plan on 4 days – a day either side for […]
Necessity is the mother of invention, but the birth of an entrepreneur requires more than necessity. It requires a great dream, unwavering determination to survive and an unquenchable thirst for improvement. From an almost empty pocket and a dream of being my own boss, I have managed to learn a lot of things about entrepreneurship […]
Learn the tricks around developing a low cost but effective Offshore Team Our next tour will be on August 7-10. This is a highly organised and effective learning experience. Set lectures around the 7 different ways you can use Offshoring, the culture differences and how to use Offshoring to your advantage. Visit 20+ workplaces – […]
Bagong Silangan is a city notorious as a squatters’ area. It used to be composed of mostly farmlands rich in rice produce, but urbanization efforts forced informal settlers to relocate in the city. Years after, the city mayor granted rights of land to its residents. Gawad Kalinga, entered the picture–a nonprofit organization with a goal […]
We started MiniMovers with a new-fangled golf ball typewriter – it was amazing, you didn’t need the hit the key hard when using 3 pieces of carbon paper but even better, was the “correct” key which typed backwards correcting mistakes (on the top copy). It made us more “efficient” than competitors. Yesterday, 32 years later […]
I believe most business owners and practically every recruiter focus on the WRONG criteria when matching people to a role. The wrong criteria are “experienced” and “qualified”. These words should never be used – they should be replaced with “capable of doing the job” and/or “core skills to do the job”. I have seen many […]
Transcript of Mike O’Hagan’s Interview with Wayne Bucklar Introduction Wayne Bucklar: My guest today is Mike O’Hagan who joins me from Mike’s Business Tours. Now for those of you who might be familiar with the name but can’t quite put the business into it. Mike is the founder of Mike’s MiniMovers, famous with a lot […]
The employer (that’s NOT YOU) drives the application. An Australian specialised “training visa” is needed. Staff Leasers all know the drill. Sometimes they process internally, some outsource to a local Visa service. Training visa’s, with your support, are not that difficult to get. There’s a heap of paper work that must be exact. The Worker […]
Mike will be showing and sharing different strategies to ramp up businesses, a stack of new ideas if you want to start a new business AND there will be also a touch of Offshoring strategies. This will be on April 24th to 27th in the Philippines – limited numbers Very special (one off only) price […]