How to get the answers right at interview September 28, 2011 THE vast majority of interviews are “competency-based” these days. This means they use a method of questioning that aims to find out whether or not you can do the job. It also means that the same questions come up time and time again. This is great news for interviewees because it’s easy to prepare when [...]
Putting women on boards will not help September 28, 2011 CATASTROPHIC errors of judgment” by company boards are blamed in Alistair Darling’s memoirs for the spectacular corporate failures over the last few years. Bringing more women into the boardroom to shake up behaviour is being touted as at least part of the answer and Lord Davies has called for at least a quarter of the [...]
Life in your hands: smartphone apps September 28, 2011 RIGHT, you’ve got the latest kit, the iPhone 4, iPad 2, BlackBerry Bold Touch perhaps, but your smartphone’s home screen is looking ever-so bare. Remedying this involves a trawl through app stores and user reviews without even knowing what you’re looking for. Fear not. We look beyond the social necessities of Facebook and Foursquare, and [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 28, 2011 LONDON RESTAURANT FESTIVAL Celebrate the London Restaurant Festival this October as it sweeps through the capital once more. Highlights include the gastronomic roadtrip Gourmet Odyssey, (that is, a restaurant crawl on a Routemaster bus), which hops from course to course including restaurants such as the Michelin-starred Arbutus to Dishoom on Upper St Martin’s Lane. 3 [...]
Domino’s on track thanks to new ranges September 28, 2011 Pizza delivery firm Domino’s Pizza said it was on track to meet full year expectations after sales growth accelerated, benefiting from the launch of new stuffed crust and ‘Gourmet’ ranges. The company, which runs the British and Irish franchises of the global delivery brand, said its stuffed crust range had proved popular after being launched [...]
Misys revenue up but orders fall September 28, 2011 Misys, the British banking software firm courted by a US rival in the summer, posted a four per cent rise in first-quarter revenue, helped by customer wins in Asia and the Middle East. But delayed sales to three new and upgrading customers in Asia and Europe in its Sophis unit, which serves capital markets, meant [...]
Watchdog gives SABMiller green light for Foster’s deal September 28, 2011 Australia’s competition watchdog has given the go-ahead to SABMiller’s $10bn (£6bn) friendly acquisition of brewer Foster’s Group as expected, saying the bid would not lessen competition. SABMiller and Foster’s last week agreed on a sweetened A$9.9bn takeover deal. “The proposed acquisition is not likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition for the supply [...]
Man Group shares dive as client funds pulled in volatile trading September 28, 2011 Man Group saw clients pull out $2.6bn (£1.6bn) of cash in the three months to the end of September, as volatility in world markets knocked the world’s largest listed hedge fund manager’s recovery from the credit crisis off course. The company’s shares plunged by up to 20 per cent in early trading. The firm, which [...]
Liberalism is left for dead by Labour September 28, 2011 YOU’VE probably never heard of Ivan Lewis, a rather obscure Labour politician. But yesterday Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, unveiled an astonishingly sinister proposal which threatens free speech and media plurality in the UK like never before: he called for a register of journalists, with anybody deemed not fit struck off and banned. Of course, [...]
It’s all over: Mancini will never pick Tevez again as City implode September 27, 2011 BAYERN MUNICH 2 vs MANCHESTER CITY 0 MANCHESTER CITY manager Roberto Mancini insists Carlos Tevez has no future at the club while he is at the helm, after the Argentina striker refused to come on as a substitute during last night’s comprehensive Champions League defeat in Munich. Having taken just one point from their first [...]
