11 Resume tips: The perfect CV May 10, 2022 | City Talk Does your curriculum vitae (CV) pass the six-second test? When they look at applicants’ resumes, recruiters and hiring managers will spend six seconds on average looking at each. If your CV doesn’t set you apart in that brief moment, you are likely out of luck. So how can you craft a resume that aces that [...]
EP: 129 York Dante Meeting May 10, 2022 The three-day Dante meeting takes place from Wednesday to Friday at York racecourse this week where both the colts and fillies will hope to prove themselves good enough to take part in next month’s Epsom classics, the Cazoo Derby and Cazoo Oaks. There’s also an opportunity to see the stayers in action in the Yorkshire [...]
Manchester City win race to sign hot property Erling Haaland for knockdown £64m May 10, 2022 Manchester City have won the race to sign one of world football’s hottest properties, Norway striker Erling Haaland, according to widespread reports. Haaland was also wanted by Real Madrid after scoring 85 goals in 88 games for German club Borussia Dortmund but has opted to move to England this summer. City are expected to pay [...]
New York’s slice of London in Sadiq Khan £10m tourism campaign May 10, 2022 NEW York was treated to a slice of London yesterday, as a handful of Coldstream guards who ordinarily stand watch at Buckingham Palace took to Times Square for the launch of a £10m campaign to lure American tourists back to the capital. Sadiq Khan was met with an enthusiastic reception from the likes of tourists [...]
Yapily snaps up German open banking firm as it ‘builds the muscles’ for global push May 10, 2022 London fintech Yapily has snapped up German open banking firm finAPI today as it “builds the muscles” for a push into a swathe of new global markets.
Payments firm Paddle bags ‘unicorn’ status with $200m funding boost May 10, 2022 London fintech firm Paddle has bagged a $200m funding injection today at a valuation of $1.4bn, making it the latest UK firm to achieve so-called ‘unicorn’ status with a value of more than $1bn.
Isolating the problem: why the modern office needs real and virtual watercooler moments May 9, 2022 Dr. Wolfgang Seidl is a partner at Marsh McLennan, and an expert on the future of work. Here he lays out just what the workplace needs to look like post-pandemic FEW PEOPLE understand more what it is to be resilient than Terry Waite CBE, the humanitarian and author who was held hostage in the 1980s. [...]
Baseball back to London as MLB chief says he’d “love” a team in the capital in next decade May 9, 2022 BIG LEAGUE baseball will be back in London next year, with the sport’s most important figure saying he would “love” to have a team based in London permanently. Major League Baseball (MLB) will play a series of games in the capital over the next five years after the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan struck a [...]
O’Brien’s Stone coming of Age for Derby Day May 9, 2022 Tom Marriott reports from Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle base ahead of the Cazoo Derby Festival IT’S ALL change at Ballydoyle. Not just the installation of floodlights and speedometers on the gallops at Aidan O’Brien’s already state of the art training establishment – the home of a record-breaking eight Derby winners – but most importantly with the horses set to [...]
Wake Up Punk review: Egos drown out discourse in search for true meaning of punk May 9, 2022 Just what exactly is Punk in modern society? It’s a question posed by Vivienne Westwood and son Joseph Corré in this new documentary. Sadly, the film never seems to find an answer as egos and hypocrisy drown out the discourse. The main narrative surrounds Corré’s protest in 2016, where he burned around £5m of his [...]