The Daily Post and Echo are interested featuring you!!!

If you are a woman in business who can give us a real success story, perhaps you have set up your own successful business or have achieved a senior management position in the face of adversity, then send us an email telling us about your route to success!

The Daily Post and Echo will choose the best and interview the winner for an article in the Daily Post. The feature will give you 300 words to promote your business with a photo and the opportunity to run your own advert at 90% off the standard rate card.

Email us at membership@liverpoolchamber.org.uk, with ‘Winning Women’ as the subject…Good luck!

Liverpool Chamber is expanding its workforce. A number of varied positions are currently available across the organisation:

• Workforce Development Officer
• Team Leader - Skillworks
• Administration Officer - Skillworks
• Business Development Officer
• Retail and Customer Service Assessor
• Claims Co-ordinator (maternity cover)
• Accounts Clerk / Project Administrator
• Database Administrator / ICT Support Technician
• Database Controller
• ChinaLink Trade & Investment Manager
• ChinaLink Trade & Investment Executive
• Executive Assistant to the Director of ChinaLink

Details of all these jobs, plus a downloadable application form, can be found on our jobs page.

Closing date for the posts is 30 March 2007.

In this week’s quick poll on the Chamber’s homepage, over 95% of voters have said ‘YES’ that ‘flexible working is good for business’.

Of 438 votes cast, 95.89% said yes, to 4.11% voting no.

Flexible working is increasingly becoming more important. It offers staff greater control over their working lives, improves both efficiency and productivity, encourages staff retention and helps improve the all-important work/life balance.

By allowing staff to work more flexible hours or the option to work from home, even just one day a week, employers can see a range of benefits. It’s even better for the environment, cutting down on travel emissions (and expenses).

Find out more about homeworking at Enterprise Nation

Visit the Telework Association website.

Read about the launch of the NW Flexible Working Group at the GMDDA website.

Brush up on the current flexible working laws.

Interested parties are invited to our Shanghai - Liverpool business meeting. The event is organised in conjunction with Shanghai Chamber for International  Commerce, with a delegation from Liverpool’s sister city Shanghai.

The meeting is open to ChinaLink’s partners and its China Business Club (UK) members.

Industrial sectors in international business support, import & export, power transmission & distribution, retail, and real estate represents some of the fastest growing sectors in the rise of Shanghai’s economy. Twelve senior business executives from these sectors are in Liverpool on 14 March on the invitation of ChinaLink to discuss business co-operative opportunities. The visiting companies are:

Shanghai Power Transmission & Distribution Co. Ltd
Shanghai Chamber of International Commerce
Shanghai Yimin Department Stores Co. Ltd
Shanghai Zhongcheng Real Estate Management Co. Ltd
Shanghai Jinglong Co. Ltd
Shanghai Fuxing Construction Development Co. Ltd
Shanghai Wuxin Real Estate Management Co. Ltd
Shanghai Jinqiao (Group) Co. Ltd

Shanghai Chamber of International Commerce has been the twinned with Liverpool Chamber of Commerce for 14 years and the partnership has been its strongest in the last eight years with ChinaLink supporting hundreds of Shanghai companies and British companies, both larger companies and SMEs, in their frequent overseas visits, exchanges and co-operative projects.

11:00am - 1pm, Wednesday, 14 March 2007,
Council Chamber,
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
Number One Old Hall Street,
Liverpool L3 9HG

All enquiries and bookings to Ms Shiu Ling Shum, 0151 224 1855 or 0151 227 1233 (email: shanghai@chinalink.org.uk)