The building trades need to recruit more women as infrastructure investment rises February 13, 2017 Recruiting women into the plumbing, electrical, and building industries is just as economically important as encouraging more women to join FTSE 100 boards, a new report said. The building trades are a leading source of employment in the UK, but a stereotypes and lack of promotion to girls making career choices leave the field dominated by [...]
Job openings in financial services just jumped February 13, 2017 If you're thinking about changing jobs, now may be the time to pounce, after new figures found the number of openings in the financial services sector almost doubled in January. Morgan McKinley's London Employment Monitor found the number of openings in the sector rose to 9,015 in January, up 81 per cent from the 4,980 [...]
Can advertising be a force for good? Diageo’s Syl Saller certainly thinks so February 13, 2017 If the early bird catches the worm, then the attendees of this year’s Advertising Association LEAD summit must have been full by the time it began. Early starts are anathema to most in the media, myself included, but the full force of AdLand was on parade, bright-eyed – despite the culture secretary’s dry, cliched, keynote [...]
DriveTribe co-founders Richard Hammond and Ernesto Schmitt talk dating, driverless cars and excluding Jeremy Clarkson from music ventures February 13, 2017 How would you transition from celebrity to business magnate? If you’ve already done well in life, one option is to wind down. This is not, however, the option Richard Hammond and sidekicks James May and Jeremy Clarkson are going for. In case they didn’t have enough to do launching Amazon’s The Grand Tour, they’ve also [...]
City Moves for 13 February 2017 – who’s switching jobs? February 13, 2017 Today's City Moves cover legal eagles, hotels and a precious metal explorer. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Ashfords LLP National legal and professional services provider Ashfords LLP has appointed Jim Morris as a partner and head of the firm’s expert aviation team. Having previously worked for six years as the aviation partner [...]
Debretts ask the expert: How to make my staff better at facing clients February 13, 2017 I work for an investment management firm and run a back office team which works with clients on compliance issues. I need my team to improve their client-facing skills in order to help us build better relationships and ultimately win more business. I’ve persuaded the company to allocate a small amount of money for training, [...]
Instagram-obsessed millennials are wasting food February 10, 2017 Millennials are prioritising making food visually appealing and are wasting ingredients as a result, according to a Sainsbury’s report. Kids these days, eh? The study found older generations are more likely to plan meals in advance and make full use of the food available, while millennials are creating more interesting meals. Sainsbury’s surveyed 5,050 consumers on [...]
Psychology in marketing: It’s time to get emotional February 10, 2017 To succeed at marketing you need to understand people. And to understand people, you need to know what makes them tick. In an age when ad blocking is on the rise and trust at a premium, understanding psychology has never been more important in marketing. Whenever I talk about the art of persuasion in [...]
City Moves for 10 February 2017 – who’s switching jobs? February 10, 2017 Squire Patton Boggs Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Ian Wood as a partner in its global energy and natural resources practice group in the London office. Ian joins the firm from the energy and infrastructure group at King & Wood Mallesons in London, along with senior associate Rebecca Slater from his previous team. Ian has expertise in power [...]
British workers are turning American in their attitudes to holiday February 10, 2017 You work hard all year round. You have ups and downs, appraisals and feedback, but all in all you put the graft in at work. This is true for a lot of workers in my experience, so why are so many Britons now taking fewer breaks? Research by ebookers.com has found that 40 per cent of [...]