Five fast ways to jazz up your CV November 17, 2010 1. USE NUMBERS They quantify your achievements and people remember them, says Richard Maun in his book Job Hunting 3.0. Saying that you “saved money” or “improved the business” are meaningless. Saying that you “saved the company £200,000 a year” or that you “increased sales by 20 per cent” will grab the interviewer’s attention and make [...]
Business ethics: do the right thing November 17, 2010 CORPORATE PHILOSOPHER IN RESIDENCE In my work as a professional “Corporate Philosopher” I work with a number of global banks and other corporations, the public sector and government agencies in helping leaders and employees ask and answer the question, “Are we doing the right thing?” The challenges we face today are immense. We are all [...]
In praise of French spirit November 17, 2010 HERE’S a strange thing: the French don’t like cognac. In fact, according to Patrice Pinet, master blender for Courvoisier, France imports more Scottish whisky than it makes cognac. Young people in France in particular, he laments, have given up on the drink, associating it with a naff, fusty past instead of a cool, cocktail-centric present. [...]
TASTING NOTES November 17, 2010 APPLETON’S LUXURY RUM Jamaican brand Appleton Estate is known for some very fine rums, but its latest trumps the bunch. The notably-dark 30 Year Old is about as expensive a rum as you will find, and as rare – only a few bottles exist. After three decades in tropical barrels, it’s been hand-blended for something [...]
Glamour is going west for the winter November 17, 2010 FOLLOWING the slew of recent East London launches, attention is shifting to the West where things are hotting up. After the summer additions of the Brompton Club and Beaufort House, the most exciting new club for some time is heading to Chelsea in the shape of Guy Pelly’s new offering, Public on the King’s Road. [...]
The world’s in peril…again November 17, 2010 ZERO HOUR BY ANDY MCNAB Bantam £18.99 More aggressively masculine thriller-writing is hard to come by – McNab’s Nick Stone is the toughest of the tough (of British men), and his partners in crime operate in a world of violent political espionage and the most blood-letting, explosive of special ops. With Zero Hour, the prolific [...]
COSTA BOOK AWARDS | ANALYSIS November 17, 2010 SECOND in command to the Booker Prize, the Costa Awards (formerly the Whitbreads), still matter. They still shift books on a large scale and the “winner” sticker still counts for something in the Waterstones customer’s consciousness. Lest anyone mistake them for the Bookers’ subservient echo, this year the prize will disprove such an assertion – [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY November 17, 2010 Those cursed royals could ruin my wedding DEAR VEXED: My fiancée and I have been engaged for over a year, and four months ago decided on a July wedding. I have a horrible feeling the weekend we’ve plumped for is the favourite for Wills and Kate. The whole thing is going to be overshadowed by [...]
EU President: Survival of Euro at risk November 16, 2010 A FRESH round of misery spread through Europe yesterday as Ireland’s continued insistence that it does not need a bailout sent stocks plunging on both sides of the Atlantic. The FTSE 100 recorded its biggest drop since August, falling 1.5 per cent yesterday to close at 5,690. The Dax dropped 1.2 per cent to close [...]
Hundreds of HSBC bankers enjoy 100 per cent salary increase November 16, 2010 SENIOR bankers at HSBC are to have their salaries doubled, as the bank attempts to head off a bonus row amid political pressure. The 100 per cent rise for hundreds of top bankers across HSBC’s global banking and markets (GBM) operations, including in the financial centres of London, Hong Kong and New York, will take [...]
