How to find a career-boosting mentor March 5, 2015 Just nine minutes a day is all you need to make your professional network more useful. Finding a mentor or sponsor is a great way to climb the career ladder, but as many as four in ten women could be missing out by avoiding networking altogether. In a recent study, 43 per cent of [...]
Four steps to smarter networking March 4, 2015 To break from the crowd and build more effective connections, use these simple strategies. Career success is hardly a matter of sitting quietly at your desk every day. A 2012 study of over 6,000 executives in the US and Europe by French researchers concluded that those who had more developed professional networks were more likely [...]
Six years of ultra-low interest rates: Where can you find income? March 3, 2015 Consider markets buoyed by QE, and remember that cash will be a lonely place for some time. It's an anniversary many UK savers will wish they never had to mark. Six years ago this month, the Bank of England cut interest rates to a record low of 0.5 per cent, as Britain grappled with the [...]
Why employers are yet to suss out Generation Y March 3, 2015 Younger employees are more likely to value loyalty than you think. With a growing economy and job creation on the up, there are increasing opportunities for young people to get onto – and climb – the career ladder. But just because career prospects are looking positive, that doesn’t mean that it’s business as usual [...]
Nasdaq closes above 5,000 for first time since dotcom bubble March 2, 2015 THE NASDAQ closed at 5,008 points last night– the highest level since the dotcom bubble. The index has been on a 10-day winning streak – the longest since 2009. Yesterday’s close was the first time the tech-heavy index, which now includes the likes of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Yahoo, has gone above that [...]
ECB meeting preview: What traders should expect from it March 2, 2015 Despite a range of economic indicators suggesting that the Eurozone economy has finally begun to turn a corner, markets had an uncertain start to the week. Although the currency bloc’s unemployment rate slipped to 11.2 per cent in January and a flash estimate of inflation came in at a better-than-expected -0.3 per cent in February, [...]
Managing risk and expectations: Average True Range – Daily FX Tips & Picks March 2, 2015 TRADING always involves risks and rewards. Your position has a potential upside (it’s the reason you trade), yet to be able to take advantage of it, you need to accept some risk. One simple way to assess this is to use the Average True Range (ATR) indicator. The indicator gives you the average range over [...]
What will the office of 2030 be like? Ergonomic boulders and contact lenses that tell you what to eat March 2, 2015 Will the workplace really look – or feel – very different in 15 years’ time? Will treadmill and recumbent bicycle standing desk add-ons be normal? And will wearables mean we never have to move to speak to a colleague? Will informal relationships be forged next to AI coffee machines? Will we even be in an [...]
The presentation tips you don’t know March 1, 2015 Revisiting PowerPoint and knowing when to chill out will make a crucial difference. Tell stories, pause, make eye contact, know your audience, prepare, “cut the fat”, smile, breathe, be yourself, start strong, close stronger, show passion and, whatever you do, ditch the bullet points. Can you achieve it all in a presentation? It’s all [...]
Could one of these designs be London’s newest bridge from Nine Elms to Pimlico? February 26, 2015 One of the best things about having an enormous tidal river running right through your city is you can build a whole bunch of spectacular bridges across it. Tower Bridge is one of the most iconic structures in the world and, while London Bridge was falling down for a time, it’s now pretty sturdy and [...]