When hunting for a new job, people try to look everywhere using all sorts of methods, forgetting one of the simplest and most effective: personal connections. In fact, one of the words that pops up most often on job-search and career-related websites is “networking”. Networking seems to be one of the keys to achieving almost
The autumn volunteer cleanup event “Let’s Clean the World, Let’s Clean the Czech Republic” is coming up tomorrow, to coincide once again with the international World Cleanup Day. Organizers from the Czech Union for Nature Conservation and Let’s Clean Czechia are now calling on the public to get actively involved in the cleanup. Photo: Uklidme
The Association of Credit for Central and Eastern Europe’s 8th annual conference returns to Brno for the first time since 2014 yet again attracting Shared Service Centres to attend. Photo by ACCEE. By ACCEE Brno, Czech Rep., Sep 11 (JS) – Aimed at Shared Services, more than 40 different international companies will be attending from
According to a 2018 World Bank report analyzing intergenerational educational and economic mobility, the American dream, a possibility to move upward from a lower social class or economic level to a higher one is more easily attainable in other high-income countries than in the US. The World Bank ranked Czech Republic the 12th country in
In Q2 2019, the average wages in the Czech Republic rose by over 7% year-on-year, thus breaking the bar for 34 thousand crowns for the first time. However, it is true that two-thirds of workers do not reach the average wage. The median has not yet broken “the psychological threshold” of CZK 30,000. Photo: Jobspin
Moving to a foreign country is always an adventure. Although you do your research, you can easily miss something without realising that could make your new life needlessly harder along the way. Here’s a small list of things you need to know before moving to the Czech Republic. Photo: Jobspin / Z. Moreau. 1 Make
Taxing digital giants is a hot topic. After the failure, so far, of attempts at European and international harmonisation in this area, the Czech government is introducing its own solution. The tax rate of 7% is the highest of any EU state , but the approach is different to other countries. Will it be effective?
93% of Czech companies are in favor of cancelling the long-standing “stravenky” working benefit. The paper meal vouchers should be replaced by money, say employers, according to the latest data from the Czech Chamber of Commerce. Photo: Pixabay. Czech Rep., Aug 20 (JS) – The Czech Chamber of Commerce surveyed employers who currently provide meal
We had the stone age, we had the iron age, and now it’s the Internet age. Nowadays everybody is talking about the Internet of Things, and other more or less futuristic concepts that our society is slowly adapting to. People often find it difficult to change their ways for new realities, especially when it comes
The second largest city in the Czech Republic, Brno, ranked as the sixth best student city according to students, while the capital Prague came in eighth. The global ranking is annually announced by the British firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which focuses on the quality of education around the world. Photo: Prague by Z. Moreau. Czech
