Some professions still favour privileged classes
Social mobility: whether someone whose father shovelled dung can become a Lord Privy Chancellor. A study into this has worryingly found that top professions such as medicine and law are increasingly being closed off to all but the most affluent families. Former minister Alan Milburn who chaired a study (Fair ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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Further Aston Martin Redundancies
There’s more bad news for the automotive industry and just as GM are beginning to claw their way out of bankruptcy on the other side of the Atlantic. The latest bad news comes from Aston Martin as they prepare to make 95 of their 1200 employees at their Warwickshire plant ...
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Tags: automotive, Recession, redudancies, redundant
There’s more bad news for the automotive industry and just as GM are beginning to claw their way out of bankruptcy on the other side of the Atlantic. The latest bad news comes from Aston Martin as they prepare to make 95 of their 1200 employees at their Warwickshire plant ...
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Tags: automotive, Recession, redudancies, redundant
CIMA & BPP join forces to subsidise graduate course
Our good friends over at CIMA and BPP have decided to join forces for the good of graduate kind and start subsidising graduate courses in order to help new graduates in the toughest job market for decades. That’s right out of the goodness of their hearts they’re offering discounts of ...
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Tags: Accountancy, bpp, cima, graduate, post grad, Qualifications
Our good friends over at CIMA and BPP have decided to join forces for the good of graduate kind and start subsidising graduate courses in order to help new graduates in the toughest job market for decades. That’s right out of the goodness of their hearts they’re offering discounts of ...
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Tags: Accountancy, bpp, cima, graduate, post grad, Qualifications
Google use maths to predict employee happiness
I thought Google was supposed to be the ultimate place to work; where you get foot rubs and eagle flavoured ice cream just for turning up. Funny then that they should have developed a mathamatical algorithm to improve staff retention, by calculating when each of the 20,000 staff are likely ...
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Tags: google graduate opportunities, Workign for Google
I thought Google was supposed to be the ultimate place to work; where you get foot rubs and eagle flavoured ice cream just for turning up. Funny then that they should have developed a mathamatical algorithm to improve staff retention, by calculating when each of the 20,000 staff are likely ...
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Tags: google graduate opportunities, Workign for Google
Over 10% of new PWC staff to be graduates
Laugh-a-minute bean-boffins Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) have taken on 125 graduate trainees as part of its pledge to recruit 1,000 staff in the UK in 2009, but look out young-uns as the firm has also made a commitment to diversity with 31% of its graduate recruits aged over 25 (compared ...
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Tags: Banking and Finance, graduate careers in finance
Laugh-a-minute bean-boffins Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) have taken on 125 graduate trainees as part of its pledge to recruit 1,000 staff in the UK in 2009, but look out young-uns as the firm has also made a commitment to diversity with 31% of its graduate recruits aged over 25 (compared ...
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Tags: Banking and Finance, graduate careers in finance
Tips for a career in sustainable and renewable fuels
We were a nation of bankers. That’s what we did: money. Problem is money is a dirty word these days, and the regulation that will fall out of the G20 summit will stop bankers misbehaving, but also stop them making space programme types of cash for themselves. If we can’t ...
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
We were a nation of bankers. That’s what we did: money. Problem is money is a dirty word these days, and the regulation that will fall out of the G20 summit will stop bankers misbehaving, but also stop them making space programme types of cash for themselves. If we can’t ...
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Students loosing interest in finance degrees
Its little wonder that some graduates with finance degrees are considering different career paths – the LSE made it clear that law places are disappearing fast under the swell of applicants looking to widen their net. It seems though that the rot in the industry may create a whiff for a ...
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Tags: degrees, Finance, law, lse, student
Its little wonder that some graduates with finance degrees are considering different career paths – the LSE made it clear that law places are disappearing fast under the swell of applicants looking to widen their net. It seems though that the rot in the industry may create a whiff for a ...
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Tags: degrees, Finance, law, lse, student
Starbucks claims UK is worst economy
Its battle of the bosses! Chevy Chase lookalike and boss of struggling Starbucks, Howard Schultz has blamed his company’s troubles on the UK economy being “in a spiral.” Step forward Alan Parker, boss of Whitbread who own the Costa coffee brand to tell him to shut it. Now, Costa too ...
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Tags: Food and Drink, Graduate careers with Whitbread, Hospitality, Retail
Its battle of the bosses! Chevy Chase lookalike and boss of struggling Starbucks, Howard Schultz has blamed his company’s troubles on the UK economy being “in a spiral.” Step forward Alan Parker, boss of Whitbread who own the Costa coffee brand to tell him to shut it. Now, Costa too ...
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Tags: Food and Drink, Graduate careers with Whitbread, Hospitality, Retail
Children affected by recesssion as uni numbers swell
A slew of pointless surveys have shown that children as young as 11 are feeling the emotional effects of being in a recession – sensing how worried their parents were about money. The boss of the Children's Society, Bob Reitemeier, told the BBC that children were "on the front line ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Tags: University applications, University funding
A slew of pointless surveys have shown that children as young as 11 are feeling the emotional effects of being in a recession – sensing how worried their parents were about money. The boss of the Children's Society, Bob Reitemeier, told the BBC that children were "on the front line ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Tags: University applications, University funding
Swedish music website goes on trial
Have you ever used Pirate Bay? No, neither have I. The website carries links to copies of music, films and TV programmes, and such file sharing has led it to be taken to court in Sweden by Sony and Warner Bros. The young owners, who face jail and a fine ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Tags: copyright, court case, graduate jobs at warner bros, law, Legal, Music industry
Have you ever used Pirate Bay? No, neither have I. The website carries links to copies of music, films and TV programmes, and such file sharing has led it to be taken to court in Sweden by Sony and Warner Bros. The young owners, who face jail and a fine ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Tags: copyright, court case, graduate jobs at warner bros, law, Legal, Music industry
Slaughter & May: only major law firm with no job cut plans?
At first, the law firms seemed to be enjoying a late harvest from the credit crunch, swooping in to make a bob or two from companies laying off or losing cash. But my pals at Clifford Chance are the first of the so called “magic circle” law firms proposing making ...
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Tags: law, legal career options, trainees and graduate placements at Slaughter and May
At first, the law firms seemed to be enjoying a late harvest from the credit crunch, swooping in to make a bob or two from companies laying off or losing cash. But my pals at Clifford Chance are the first of the so called “magic circle” law firms proposing making ...
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Tags: law, legal career options, trainees and graduate placements at Slaughter and May
Primark supplier under investigation
A clothing supplier to Primark is under investigation for allegedly using illegal workers and paying staff less than the minimum wage. TNS Knitwear, which supplies 20,000 garments to Primark every week, has been accused of employing illegal immigrants from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan and paying some workers £3 per hour, ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Clothing and fashion, Primark expand to create more jobs, Retail, work abroad with Primark
A clothing supplier to Primark is under investigation for allegedly using illegal workers and paying staff less than the minimum wage. TNS Knitwear, which supplies 20,000 garments to Primark every week, has been accused of employing illegal immigrants from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan and paying some workers £3 per hour, ...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tags: Clothing and fashion, Primark expand to create more jobs, Retail, work abroad with Primark
Stonewall survey of gay-friendly employers 2009
Ah, the distractions of a January: the darts world championship; celebrity Big Brother, and the Stonewall report of the top 100 gay-friendly employers. A good benchmark for those who appreciate diversity in the workplace, as well as a good cuddle. This year, the highest climber was Simmons & Simmons in ...
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Tags: Banking and Finance, Diversity, graduate opportunities in diverse workplaces, law, Stonewall survey
Ah, the distractions of a January: the darts world championship; celebrity Big Brother, and the Stonewall report of the top 100 gay-friendly employers. A good benchmark for those who appreciate diversity in the workplace, as well as a good cuddle. This year, the highest climber was Simmons & Simmons in ...
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Tags: Banking and Finance, Diversity, graduate opportunities in diverse workplaces, law, Stonewall survey
Think you’ve had a bad week…?!
A ”Citizen Journalist” on CNN website mistakenly claims boss Steve Jobs has a heart attack and sends Apple’s shares crashing… With another ill-informed BBC business Blog by dyed-hair scribbler Robert Peston accused of terrifying traders and wiping £17bn off the share price of UK banks… American lawyer Michael Kelly “forgot” to submit ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, law, Legal, Retail, Starbucks careers, Talking points for Graduate Job interview
A ”Citizen Journalist” on CNN website mistakenly claims boss Steve Jobs has a heart attack and sends Apple’s shares crashing… With another ill-informed BBC business Blog by dyed-hair scribbler Robert Peston accused of terrifying traders and wiping £17bn off the share price of UK banks… American lawyer Michael Kelly “forgot” to submit ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, law, Legal, Retail, Starbucks careers, Talking points for Graduate Job interview
Lawyers could see boom in work due to City job cuts
Brush up on employment law, and you’re set for life: Research by our friends at KPMG have found that 27% of firms are planning to use the credit crunch as an excuse to lay off staff – but this means a harvest time for the lawyers. Often companies try to ...
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Tags: a legal job interview, growth in legal business, job interview at a law firm, law, Legal, Talking Piont
Brush up on employment law, and you’re set for life: Research by our friends at KPMG have found that 27% of firms are planning to use the credit crunch as an excuse to lay off staff – but this means a harvest time for the lawyers. Often companies try to ...
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Tags: a legal job interview, growth in legal business, job interview at a law firm, law, Legal, Talking Piont
Good week for…
KPMG: they resigned the fated XL account in 2006 citing dangerous accounting irregularities – er…BDO Stoy Hayward took over the account… Aberystwyth freshers: after it is named as UK's favourite university town, new students have been housed in hotels as record numbers turn up for the new term… Online advertising: Four out ...
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Tags: Banking and Finance, Job interview talking points, KPMG Graduate careers, law, Legal, Marketing, Online
KPMG: they resigned the fated XL account in 2006 citing dangerous accounting irregularities – er…BDO Stoy Hayward took over the account… Aberystwyth freshers: after it is named as UK's favourite university town, new students have been housed in hotels as record numbers turn up for the new term… Online advertising: Four out ...
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Tags: Banking and Finance, Job interview talking points, KPMG Graduate careers, law, Legal, Marketing, Online
Careers for women look good at law firms
A survey by The Lawyer has revealed almost 20% of in the top 100 UK law firms are now female. And the total number of equity partners - partners who have a share in the ownership of the firm - who are women has risen by nearly 4.5% this year, ...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Tags: graduate careers for women, law, Legal, women in the law, Women in work
A survey by The Lawyer has revealed almost 20% of in the top 100 UK law firms are now female. And the total number of equity partners - partners who have a share in the ownership of the firm - who are women has risen by nearly 4.5% this year, ...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Tags: graduate careers for women, law, Legal, women in the law, Women in work
Your ticket to being a music mogul…
The people behind the Kaiser Chiefs and Primal Scream are backing a new website that allows music fans to invest financially as well as emotionally in hotly tipped new acts. You mean slicethepie.com? Why, no. This “new” venture dreamed up by a music business lawyer (brilliant) and backed by the ...
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Tags: best CV, Experience, job opportunities, Music, Music industry, perfect interview
The people behind the Kaiser Chiefs and Primal Scream are backing a new website that allows music fans to invest financially as well as emotionally in hotly tipped new acts. You mean slicethepie.com? Why, no. This “new” venture dreamed up by a music business lawyer (brilliant) and backed by the ...
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Tags: best CV, Experience, job opportunities, Music, Music industry, perfect interview
Tata face political pressure over the Nano car
You heard it here first: After giving our lawyers the fidgets claiming that one of India’s biggest firms, Tata, had used thugs to seize farmland for the factory to build the world’s smallest and cheapest car, the Nano, we seem the claim was not a conspiracy or flashback. In fact ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: automotive, cars, Cheapest Car, CSR, engineering, Environment
You heard it here first: After giving our lawyers the fidgets claiming that one of India’s biggest firms, Tata, had used thugs to seize farmland for the factory to build the world’s smallest and cheapest car, the Nano, we seem the claim was not a conspiracy or flashback. In fact ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: automotive, cars, Cheapest Car, CSR, engineering, Environment
Lawyers see increase in redundancy enquiries.
When every headline you read is about is about us facing the worst economic climate since the Black Death, some bosses see this as the perfect time to get rid of dead wood staff. No surprises then that Allianz insurance group has said its legal helpline, Lawphone has received a ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: Business Practice, Growth, increase in sales, job losses, law, Legal
When every headline you read is about is about us facing the worst economic climate since the Black Death, some bosses see this as the perfect time to get rid of dead wood staff. No surprises then that Allianz insurance group has said its legal helpline, Lawphone has received a ...
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Tags: Business Practice, Growth, increase in sales, job losses, law, Legal
I’m alone with my wife.
You’ll get nothing from me today – it’s a UK Bank Holiday. I’m putting into practise the rather nauseating words from law firm Eversheds boss David Gray (not that one) who has decided to quit his job because, “I want to spend time with my best friend – my wife.” ...
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal
You’ll get nothing from me today – it’s a UK Bank Holiday. I’m putting into practise the rather nauseating words from law firm Eversheds boss David Gray (not that one) who has decided to quit his job because, “I want to spend time with my best friend – my wife.” ...
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal
Download illegal games? Watch your ass.
In the music industry, if someone illegally downloads a track, you roll over and sack a few staff. Fittingly, when it happens in the computer gaming industry, you go to war. 25,000 people in the UK can expect a knock at the door from Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland ...
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Tags: Computer gaming, fine, IT, law, Penalty, Talking Piont
In the music industry, if someone illegally downloads a track, you roll over and sack a few staff. Fittingly, when it happens in the computer gaming industry, you go to war. 25,000 people in the UK can expect a knock at the door from Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland ...
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Tags: Computer gaming, fine, IT, law, Penalty, Talking Piont
These are not just digruntled staff. These are M&S…
M&S faces a mutiny as employees digest the news that the company wants to cut redundancy benefits by up to 25%, which would limit maximum payouts from 70 to 52 weeks. A member of staff due £35,000 would see that support cut by £9,000. Morale is apparently low in the ...
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Tags: fashion, Food and Drink, High Street, Job security, redundancies, Retail
M&S faces a mutiny as employees digest the news that the company wants to cut redundancy benefits by up to 25%, which would limit maximum payouts from 70 to 52 weeks. A member of staff due £35,000 would see that support cut by £9,000. Morale is apparently low in the ...
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Tags: fashion, Food and Drink, High Street, Job security, redundancies, Retail
BAA told to sell 3 of 7 UK airports
Read this if you are at all interested in holding a conversation with airline or infrastructure employers: Superhero-sounding, The Competition Commission has told airport wrangler BAA that they may have to sell three of its seven UK airports because of concerns about its market dominance, claiming BAA's current ownership structure ...
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Tags: Airlines, Aviation, Infrastructure, monopoly, Regulation, Talking point
Read this if you are at all interested in holding a conversation with airline or infrastructure employers: Superhero-sounding, The Competition Commission has told airport wrangler BAA that they may have to sell three of its seven UK airports because of concerns about its market dominance, claiming BAA's current ownership structure ...
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Tags: Airlines, Aviation, Infrastructure, monopoly, Regulation, Talking point
Legal juniors leave over long hours and low pay
The bigger law firms are supposedly doing okay out of the credit crunch, it’s the smaller local practices that troll through property sales contracts that are feeling the pinch. However, magic circle City favourite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has seen a mini-exodus of staff over the last three months. Rumours suggest ...
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal, Money money money, New vacancies, salary, work life balance
The bigger law firms are supposedly doing okay out of the credit crunch, it’s the smaller local practices that troll through property sales contracts that are feeling the pinch. However, magic circle City favourite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has seen a mini-exodus of staff over the last three months. Rumours suggest ...
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal, Money money money, New vacancies, salary, work life balance
Tesco empire starts passage to India
Tesco is investing £60m large into branching out into India – not stores as such, but a wholesale cash-and-carry business in Mumbai. Tesco also signed a deal to help the Indian equivalent of Virgin, Tata, develop its hypermarket business from 4 to over 50 stores in 5 years. This isn’t ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: China, Food and Drink, Growth, India, Job opportunites, Retail, Seeing the World, Supermarkets, Tesco
Tesco is investing £60m large into branching out into India – not stores as such, but a wholesale cash-and-carry business in Mumbai. Tesco also signed a deal to help the Indian equivalent of Virgin, Tata, develop its hypermarket business from 4 to over 50 stores in 5 years. This isn’t ...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Tags: China, Food and Drink, Growth, India, Job opportunites, Retail, Seeing the World, Supermarkets, Tesco
Strip clubs, booze and sexual assault. Welcome to the firm.
When you do get off your backside and get a job, remember you are an ambassador for your employer. Let's be clear that law firm Shearman and Sterling cannot be held responsible for the actions of one of their staff who was out with a 23-year old Oxford graduate, new ...
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Tags: Lawyers, Legal, Sexual harrassment, Talking point, Values and Behaviours, watercooler moment
When you do get off your backside and get a job, remember you are an ambassador for your employer. Let's be clear that law firm Shearman and Sterling cannot be held responsible for the actions of one of their staff who was out with a 23-year old Oxford graduate, new ...
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Tags: Lawyers, Legal, Sexual harrassment, Talking point, Values and Behaviours, watercooler moment
Good week for BAE Systems…?
You can’t move this week without tripping over defence firm BAE Systems. Down in Cowes they won a £100m contract from the government to stick a radar system onto two aircraft carriers (not bad when you consider the quote I got to do the bathroom); they have been patted on ...
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Tags: Defence, engineering, Growth, innovation, Militery, New Products, new projects, Seeing the World
You can’t move this week without tripping over defence firm BAE Systems. Down in Cowes they won a £100m contract from the government to stick a radar system onto two aircraft carriers (not bad when you consider the quote I got to do the bathroom); they have been patted on ...
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Tags: Defence, engineering, Growth, innovation, Militery, New Products, new projects, Seeing the World
Restaurants forced to pay minimum wage. Hooray!
Thanks to both of you who’ve followed the stories around restaurant chains paying staff below the minimum wage (£5.52 apparently) and then hoping that tips will prop up the pay to a legal level. The press has made such a fuss over this summer’s “big story” that the law is ...
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Government, minimum wage, Money money money, Retail, Tips, Waiting staff
Thanks to both of you who’ve followed the stories around restaurant chains paying staff below the minimum wage (£5.52 apparently) and then hoping that tips will prop up the pay to a legal level. The press has made such a fuss over this summer’s “big story” that the law is ...
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Tags: Food and Drink, Government, minimum wage, Money money money, Retail, Tips, Waiting staff
Boots accused of holding back supplier payment
"We are committed to working with our suppliers for our mutual long-term benefit.” So says Boots. Funny then that they have been accused of exploiting those same suppliers to improve their cash flow. In English what that means is they wrote to suppliers saying that invoices would be paid up to ...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Tags: , pharmaceutical, Reail, Small Businesses, Talking point
"We are committed to working with our suppliers for our mutual long-term benefit.” So says Boots. Funny then that they have been accused of exploiting those same suppliers to improve their cash flow. In English what that means is they wrote to suppliers saying that invoices would be paid up to ...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Tags: , pharmaceutical, Reail, Small Businesses, Talking point
Concern over female career path: 1yr maternity leave
The new boss of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has come out and said the bleeding obvious, but a truth people daren’t speak of. No, not that; she’s pointed out that the radical extension of maternity leave could hinder women’s chances of getting their dream job. New mums will ...
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Tags: family, Female, leave, maternity leave, perks, rights, Talking point, Women in work
The new boss of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has come out and said the bleeding obvious, but a truth people daren’t speak of. No, not that; she’s pointed out that the radical extension of maternity leave could hinder women’s chances of getting their dream job. New mums will ...
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Tags: family, Female, leave, maternity leave, perks, rights, Talking point, Women in work
Grad vacancies keep rising – if you can read and write
As 600 of the UK’s best Graduate Recruiters have been getting drunk at the Association of Graduate Recruiters Conference - the AGR itself has released details of a survey that says that poor reading and riting skills among graduates are a concern for half of the UK's top employers. 56% ...
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Banking, degree class, Finance, job vacancies, law, Money money money, skills, Survey
As 600 of the UK’s best Graduate Recruiters have been getting drunk at the Association of Graduate Recruiters Conference - the AGR itself has released details of a survey that says that poor reading and riting skills among graduates are a concern for half of the UK's top employers. 56% ...
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Banking, degree class, Finance, job vacancies, law, Money money money, skills, Survey
Work experience girl tried to steal £60k from Freshfields
Here's someone destined for a place on my board: 19 year old Titilayo Olaifa (I bet she does) got a work experience placement at no. 3 City law firm Freshfields and promptly tried to steal £60,000 from them. She was jailed for 5 months for using the firm's system to ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Tags: Freshfields, law, Legal, Talking point, Work Experience
Here's someone destined for a place on my board: 19 year old Titilayo Olaifa (I bet she does) got a work experience placement at no. 3 City law firm Freshfields and promptly tried to steal £60,000 from them. She was jailed for 5 months for using the firm's system to ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Tags: Freshfields, law, Legal, Talking point, Work Experience
Gap between small and large law firms gets even bigger
More examples that the lawyers are have having a ball in the credit crunch: Linklaters, one of the so-called "magic circle" of UK law firms, narrowly avoided overtaking rival, Clifford Chance, when it announced record turnover for the last financial year – with revenue up an impressive 15%. The boss, ...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Clinet Service, Large and small, law, Legal, new jobs, profits
More examples that the lawyers are have having a ball in the credit crunch: Linklaters, one of the so-called "magic circle" of UK law firms, narrowly avoided overtaking rival, Clifford Chance, when it announced record turnover for the last financial year – with revenue up an impressive 15%. The boss, ...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Clinet Service, Large and small, law, Legal, new jobs, profits
Naked Cowboy takes Mars to court
Mars is facing a £3m lawsuit from a man who wears nothing but white cowboy boots and a pair of tight white underpants. No, not John Leslie, The Naked Cowboy is a New York institution. The street performer, real name Robert Burck, strides around Times Square in his hat, boots ...
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Tags: advertising, chocolate, Food and Drink, law, Marketing, MTV, Retail, Talking point
Mars is facing a £3m lawsuit from a man who wears nothing but white cowboy boots and a pair of tight white underpants. No, not John Leslie, The Naked Cowboy is a New York institution. The street performer, real name Robert Burck, strides around Times Square in his hat, boots ...
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Tags: advertising, chocolate, Food and Drink, law, Marketing, MTV, Retail, Talking point
Lawyers’ bonuses beat City
This credit crunch and supposed recession certainly does seem to be a game of swings and roundabouts. 40,000 City staff have lost their jobs. Goldman Sachs makes $2bn profit. Lehman Brothers records a loss of £2.8bn. But we hear that far from catching a chill in this economic climate, lawyers ...
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Bonus, Career Advice, City, Freshfields, law, Legal, Money money money, opportunity, Trader
This credit crunch and supposed recession certainly does seem to be a game of swings and roundabouts. 40,000 City staff have lost their jobs. Goldman Sachs makes $2bn profit. Lehman Brothers records a loss of £2.8bn. But we hear that far from catching a chill in this economic climate, lawyers ...
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Bonus, Career Advice, City, Freshfields, law, Legal, Money money money, opportunity, Trader
Huge job losses predicted for estate agents
With the housing Market currently in the equivilent of shared, basement accommodation with no natural daylight, up to 15,000 estate agents could lose their jobs this year. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) also believes that up to 40,000 jobs could be lost in the sector as a ...
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tags: Property, Real Estate, Recession, Retail, sales, the world of work
With the housing Market currently in the equivilent of shared, basement accommodation with no natural daylight, up to 15,000 estate agents could lose their jobs this year. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) also believes that up to 40,000 jobs could be lost in the sector as a ...
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tags: Property, Real Estate, Recession, Retail, sales, the world of work
UN Carbon off-setting initiative flawed
Trade in “carbon credits” is running at some $10bn a year. The United Nations-run scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), gives firms in developing countries financial incentives (credits) to cut greenhouse gas emissions. More than 1,000 projects have already qualified for carbon credits and a further 3,000 projects have applied. ...
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Tags: business knowledge, Carbon offsetting, conversation point, Environment, India
Trade in “carbon credits” is running at some $10bn a year. The United Nations-run scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), gives firms in developing countries financial incentives (credits) to cut greenhouse gas emissions. More than 1,000 projects have already qualified for carbon credits and a further 3,000 projects have applied. ...
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Tags: business knowledge, Carbon offsetting, conversation point, Environment, India
Law firm creates new roles
It seems the credit crunch might be a good way of fast tracking you up the rungs of the career ladder: Legal beagles, Denton Wilde Sapte has been promoting some of its “associate” lawyers to the newly created role of “managing associates.” They claim that this is an initiative to ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities, law, Legal, new jobs, Partner, Promotion
It seems the credit crunch might be a good way of fast tracking you up the rungs of the career ladder: Legal beagles, Denton Wilde Sapte has been promoting some of its “associate” lawyers to the newly created role of “managing associates.” They claim that this is an initiative to ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities, law, Legal, new jobs, Partner, Promotion
Business biscuit etiquette secrets revealed
Holiday Inn surveyed 1,000 businesses and found 80% believe the type of biscuit they serve to potential clients are a key factor in clinching a deal. The chocolate digestive was deemed to make the best impression followed by shortbread and Hob Nobs. Jammie Dodgers and Bourbons made bosses smile and ...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Tags: biscuits, Business Practice, career help, Interviews, tourism
Holiday Inn surveyed 1,000 businesses and found 80% believe the type of biscuit they serve to potential clients are a key factor in clinching a deal. The chocolate digestive was deemed to make the best impression followed by shortbread and Hob Nobs. Jammie Dodgers and Bourbons made bosses smile and ...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Tags: biscuits, Business Practice, career help, Interviews, tourism
Supermarkets still using too much bad packaging
The Local Government Association has been bothering retailers by buying 29 items from 6 supermarket chains to test the re-cycling capabilities of their products. 38% of items could not be recycled (only up 2% from the last tests in October 07). Lidl and M&S performed poorly with just 68% of ...
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Tags: CSR, Environment, M&S, Retail, Sainsbury's, Supermarkets
The Local Government Association has been bothering retailers by buying 29 items from 6 supermarket chains to test the re-cycling capabilities of their products. 38% of items could not be recycled (only up 2% from the last tests in October 07). Lidl and M&S performed poorly with just 68% of ...
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Tags: CSR, Environment, M&S, Retail, Sainsbury's, Supermarkets
Google defend YouTube in Viacom rights case
Viacom. No? It’s a media giant that owns MTV and Comedy Central. It claims to have identified 150,000 unauthorised clips on YouTube, that have been watched 1.5bn times, and is launching a $1bn law suit (this is America, after all). Google, who own YouTube, say the firm has done enough; ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Tags: court case, Google, IT, law, MTV, Online, YouTube
Viacom. No? It’s a media giant that owns MTV and Comedy Central. It claims to have identified 150,000 unauthorised clips on YouTube, that have been watched 1.5bn times, and is launching a $1bn law suit (this is America, after all). Google, who own YouTube, say the firm has done enough; ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Tags: court case, Google, IT, law, MTV, Online, YouTube
Winehouse makes it onto Cambridge final
World-class institution Cambridge University asked English finalists to demonstrate their three years of intensive study with an exam question that compared the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh with the lyrics of the pop singer Amy Winehouse. The university defended the move, saying it proved their academics lived "in the modern ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Tags: Cambridge, conversation point, English, Finals, placement, University
World-class institution Cambridge University asked English finalists to demonstrate their three years of intensive study with an exam question that compared the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh with the lyrics of the pop singer Amy Winehouse. The university defended the move, saying it proved their academics lived "in the modern ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Tags: Cambridge, conversation point, English, Finals, placement, University
Dutch could initiate Fat Cat crack down - so some threaten to close operations
Here comes the Bos – Wouter Bos that is, finance minister in the Dutch government. He’s provoked uproar from the flat land’s business leaders by proposing tax laws to curb large bonuses and golden handshakes for company bosses, including local giants like Phillips, Akzo Nobel and Unilever. They claim their ...
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Tags: Akzo Nobel, Brussels, EU, Firms, Phillips, Shell, Unilever, war on talent
Here comes the Bos – Wouter Bos that is, finance minister in the Dutch government. He’s provoked uproar from the flat land’s business leaders by proposing tax laws to curb large bonuses and golden handshakes for company bosses, including local giants like Phillips, Akzo Nobel and Unilever. They claim their ...
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Tags: Akzo Nobel, Brussels, EU, Firms, Phillips, Shell, Unilever, war on talent
As fortunes dwindle, so do City marriages
Mishcon de Reya, the law firm who initally advised Heater Mills on her divorce from M.C.Cartney, have said that City spouses are rushing to the divorce courts to get their share of their partner's fortune before it all turns to dust in the recession. Economic downturn helps the bread winners negotiate lower ...
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Tags: City, law, Legal, Recession
Mishcon de Reya, the law firm who initally advised Heater Mills on her divorce from M.C.Cartney, have said that City spouses are rushing to the divorce courts to get their share of their partner's fortune before it all turns to dust in the recession. Economic downturn helps the bread winners negotiate lower ...
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Tags: City, law, Legal, Recession
Law career is stressful. Official. Says nutter.
How’s this for career advice: Susan Hepburn is the hypnotherapist to the stars (one of her greatest achievements is to get Lily Allen from a size 14 to an 8). She’s revealed that she’s treated more lawyers than any other professionals. Apparently they come with smoking or stress problems, or ...
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Tags: Career Advice, law, Legal, proffesional, stress, work/life balance
How’s this for career advice: Susan Hepburn is the hypnotherapist to the stars (one of her greatest achievements is to get Lily Allen from a size 14 to an 8). She’s revealed that she’s treated more lawyers than any other professionals. Apparently they come with smoking or stress problems, or ...
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Tags: Career Advice, law, Legal, proffesional, stress, work/life balance
Fine for “Spam King” opens up whole new area for law
Sanford Wallace sounds like an American University, he is in fact “The Spam King,” earning the moniker not because he likes boiled, pressed pork, but because he and his partner Walter Raines send up to 30m junk emails in 90’s. His scam on MySpace involved sending 730,000 messages to members ...
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal, MySpace, Online, USA
Sanford Wallace sounds like an American University, he is in fact “The Spam King,” earning the moniker not because he likes boiled, pressed pork, but because he and his partner Walter Raines send up to 30m junk emails in 90’s. His scam on MySpace involved sending 730,000 messages to members ...
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Tags: law, Legal, MySpace, Online, USA
Top lawyer calls for profession NOT to work in China
This is interesting, potentially career-limiting dilemma; Tim Dutton is Britain’s most senior barrister as Chairman of the Bar Council. He’s come forward to urge UK lawyers to refuse work in China, thus avoiding supporting human rights abuses. Dutton said he was concerned about the number of British law firms setting ...
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Tags: China, law, Morals, Politics, secondment, working abroad
This is interesting, potentially career-limiting dilemma; Tim Dutton is Britain’s most senior barrister as Chairman of the Bar Council. He’s come forward to urge UK lawyers to refuse work in China, thus avoiding supporting human rights abuses. Dutton said he was concerned about the number of British law firms setting ...
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Tags: China, law, Morals, Politics, secondment, working abroad
Bosses fear of “the Kaplinsky.”
Nearly 75% of Bosses have confessed that they would not employ a woman if they felt she would become pregnant within six months of starting work. Just 1 in 20 would employ an applicant if they knew she was pregnant - an event now referred to as "doing a Kaplinsky." Six ...
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Tags: Broadcasting, Interview, media, pregnancy
Nearly 75% of Bosses have confessed that they would not employ a woman if they felt she would become pregnant within six months of starting work. Just 1 in 20 would employ an applicant if they knew she was pregnant - an event now referred to as "doing a Kaplinsky." Six ...
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Tags: Broadcasting, Interview, media, pregnancy
Credit Crunch has highlighted the new industrial revolution
If you read the Daily Mail and haven't committed suicide yet, read on: The credit crunch may not make us homeless, jobless and destitute if we broaden our horizons. This recession has highlighted a massive change in the way the world works; for while the USA is feeling the burn, ...
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Tags: China, Credit Crunch, Finance, India
If you read the Daily Mail and haven't committed suicide yet, read on: The credit crunch may not make us homeless, jobless and destitute if we broaden our horizons. This recession has highlighted a massive change in the way the world works; for while the USA is feeling the burn, ...
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Tags: China, Credit Crunch, Finance, India
