Useful Links

The following related website links may be of interest:

• The Royal Dutch Shell Group - Global Vacancies
  
  A link to Royal Dutch Shell's Global website, where you may view and apply for a position in any of the 110 countries worldwide in which this oil giant operates. RKJ Consulting Limited have provided a number of recruitment screening services to Shell, including job interview template development, initial candidate vetting and follow-up telephone interviewing.

• Business Continuity Management Glossary
  
  A Glossary of Terms related to Business Continuity Management
  (This glossary is kindly provided by courtesy of the British Continuity Institute).

• The British Standards Institute: Business Continuity Management
  
  As risks to businesses evolve and the number of disruptions increases, the only way your organization can survive and prosper is by being committed to business continuity management. A Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) based on the best practice standard BS 25999 provides a management framework that gives you the necessary controls to address risks and monitor and measure your organization’s ability to manage, and recover from, disruptions. It can also help you to enhance your image and reputation and, through independent certification, can enable you to demonstrate the ultimate assurance to your stakeholders that your business meets best practice.

• BS25999: The Business Continuity Management Standard
  
  Continued operations in the event of a disruption, whether due to a major disaster or a minor incident, is a fundamental requirement for any organization. BS 25999, the world’s first British standard for business continuity management (BCM), has been developed to help you minimize the risk of such disruptions. By helping to put the fundamentals of a BCM system in place, the standard is designed to keep your business going during the most challenging and unexpected circumstances – protecting your staff, preserving your reputation and providing the ability to continue to operate and trade.

• The Business Continuity Institute
  
  The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. The BCI currently has over 4000 members in 85+ countries. The wider role of the BCI and the BCI Partnership is to promote the highest standards of professional competence and commercial ethics in the provision and maintenance of business continuity planning and services.

• The Business Continuity Journal
  
  The Business Continuity Journal is a peer reviewed international business continuity journal. Each issue provides unique very high level content, which explores advanced business continuity thinking and showcases the latest in business continuity academic research. Each paper in the Business Continuity Journal has been scrutinized by a panel consisting of experienced practitioners, academics and subject matter experts. There are currently three versions of the Business Continuity Journal: a UK version; a North American version; and an international version.

• The World Health Organisation
  
  WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases of H5N1 avian influenza and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic.

• The Emergency Planning Society
  
  For professionals dealing with emergency planning, crisis and disaster management the Society offers a unique framework for promoting the interests of it's members. Through its branches and various groups, the Emergency Planning Society organises conferences, workshops, working parties, studies and seminars to examine emergency planning practice and experience, and to develop advice on good practice. Information and reports are disseminated throughout the emergency planning community.

• The UK Web Design Association
  
  The UK Web Design Association was established in 2001 to encourage and promote industry standards within the British web design and new media sector.
  
  Members include the self-employed through to international companies from many industry sectors, including publishing, marketing, design, ecommerce, television and education.

• Nominet
  
  Nominet operate at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest Internet registries and managing over seven million domain names. Nominet maintain the register of .uk domain names.
  
  Nominet run the technology which locates a computer on the Internet hosting the web site or email system you're looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.

• The Web Marketing Checklist - 32 ways to promote your site
  
  How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate traffic? Here's a checklist of 32 items you need to consider. Many of these you're probably doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you've never heard of.
  
  Of course, a great deal has been written about this. While we're not breaking any new ground here, we've tried to summarize some of the most important techniques.