Arriving in February full of hope that the vaccination roll out would start to ease the pandemic, it seems that the reverse is true as far as some of the restrictions go.
All of a sudden countries are announcing tougher and more strict self isolation for arrivals.
I had to travel to England during February, and the added layers of security, form filling and general bureaucracy encountered were frankly tiresome. That said, the flights were on time, only half full and staff excellent (because with lower passenger numbers they’re somewhat less stressed I imagine?)
My trip to England was for a couple of important meetings, the details of which I’m sure will feature in a future post once they are public knowledge, but returning to Brighton and seeing some of the sights again (after a period of self isolation) was good, although February being February it was rather cool by comparison to my new home in Malta!
Anyway, business news has the following updates, Alnistar Ltd (Recruitment) started its candidate generation program as previously noted, and there is a steady uptake of candidates streaming into the system now. Alnistar Ltd (Digital) has embarked on two new projects, which takes us to capacity for around 2 months. An excellent start!
We’re recruiting further at Cloud RPO – our insights from the research gathered last year are proving correct and the business focus now is that of engagement – a series of adverts, publicity shots, magazine interviews, chamber articles and of course good old fashioned face to face and telephone work are all paying off.
Okto Digital has had a busy month, the format for the pitch and board decisions from ME didn’t quite map out as expected, and another round of detail is required. We head into March full of optimism and expectation though! I’ll write more on this next month.
Okto Capital is striding ahead now, very detailed work, which is, frankly speaking, not too interesting to write about or read. The excitement will come in the next 6-8 weeks I believe when the investment rounds open.
Novem Ltd is involved in 3 very interesting ‘deals’ right now. One property based, one commodity based and another import/export based. More on these when they are concluded, but one of them has significant importance the the UK. It’s super pleasing to be operating at this level – a level I really feel at home in!
Stay safe, more news soon!