Best job interview ever? New Zealand offers to pay for your whole trip if you’ll do a job interview in Wellington March 2, 2017 The fight for tech talent is heating up. New Zealand has well and truly raised the bar as officials in Wellington are after 100 of the best people possible to fill 100 tech jobs. To entice the talented from far and wide, they're offering to pay for people's trips to New Zealand from across the [...]
How Long Is the Investment Learning Curve? March 2, 2017 | City Talk Mistakes and disappointments are not unusual in the investment world. On the contrary, it is investment successes that are rare. Persistent boom-and-bust economic cycles underline the numerous unavoidable challenges that investment decision makers face. Moreover, professional investors rarely have a complete understanding of their own miscalculations or those of others. From poor analyst forecast accuracy [...]
City Moves for 2 March 2017 – who’s switching jobs? March 2, 2017 Today's City Moves cover commodities platforms, pensions and tourism. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Kynetix Matt Dolton has been appointed chief executive of Kynetix, a leading provider of platforms which connect financial markets to the physical economy. Matt is one of the co-founders of Kynetix and has been spearheading the company’s strategy [...]
Half of UK workplaces report mental health problems, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD) March 2, 2017 Over half of British employers (54 per cent) have been approached by staff suffering mental ill health, a new survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD) has revealed. Ninety eight per cent of business leaders surveyed said good mental health is important to the performance of their organisation. However, just 14 per cent have a formal mental health policy [...]
Why the robotic workplace will always have humans at its core March 1, 2017 Raising productivity levels is essential to delivering stronger economic growth. But in an age where anything and everything seems to have already been tried and tested, it can feel like a productivity increase requires bottomless funds paired with Herculean efforts. Not so. We think part of the solution is looking at where and how we [...]
Podcast: Fake it til you make it – how to be a great communicator March 1, 2017 Having trouble getting through? This week we're joined by Emma Serlin, founder of the London Speech Workshop and author of The Communication Equation (and her 10-week old, Leo), to solve all your problems. Serlin explains how to be a brilliant communicator, even if you're in a horrible mood – and gives us ways to fake [...]
Spot The Difference: Claudio Ranieri And The CEOs Being Kicked Out Of The FTSE100 February 28, 2017 What's the difference between Claudio Ranieri and the chief executives of the companies at the bottom of the FTSE100? That's easy. The latter aren't Italian, don't get nicknamed the Tinkerman and haven't won trophies lately. They are also still in their jobs. On the field, Ranieri, the manager who won international acclaim for achieving a 100-year-first [...]
These are the UK’s 17 fastest growing cities for tech jobs (spoiler – London’s missed the top spot) February 28, 2017 Looking for a job in tech? It might not be worth sticking around the capital – a new report has suggested the place to be could be Bournemouth. TheCityUK's Enabling Growth Across the UK report, which looks at how finance hubs outside London can flourish, shows London is no longer the UK's fastest-growing tech hub. In [...]
Lazy monolinguals will hurt your business: The compelling case for bringing language learning into the workplace February 28, 2017 The UK’S future relationship with Europe is far from certain. With many of Brexit’s economic consequences still panning out, it is a good time to reflect on how the UK can maintain a global trading edge after its exit from the EU. In this respect, post-Brexit UK companies would do well to embrace foreign languages [...]
Out-Trumping Trump: How one company is getting more towers than Donald Trump February 28, 2017 Want to have as many tower blocks named after you as Donald Trump without having to build any of them? Forbes, the American business magazine publisher, has come up with a plan. The privately-owned company added property to its other three strategic pillars of print and digital media and branding back in 2013, with a plan to [...]