Where do you see yourself in five years’ time? How to answer the hardest interview question September 1, 2014 Harriet Green explains how to answer one of the trickiest interview questions out there. With job hopping becoming increasingly common, and new definitions of the “career ladder” coming into play, careers are becoming less predictable creatures. Even if you’re within a profession, knowing what the next few years will look like can be difficult [...]
Townsend will not appeal his FA betting ban June 12, 2013 GUILTY Tottenham winger Andros Townsend will not appeal his punishment for breaching the Football Association’s betting rules and has vowed to restore his reputation on the pitch. The 21-year-old was handed a four-month ban and £18,000 fine at an independent regulatory commission hearing yesterday, where he was found to have breached FA Rule E8(b) for misconduct [...]
London Report: FTSE 100 takes breather during corporate lull August 12, 2013 THE FTSE 100 ended down 9.1 points yesterday, or 0.1 per cent, at 6,574.34 points, with technical sellers dragging down the index after it failed to break 6,600, a level that has capped its value since last week. A new failure to break this resistance was seen as a sign of waning appetite for FTSE [...]
Barclays rolling out contactless payment wristband next month June 9, 2014 BARCLAYS will launch a contactless payments wristband for consumers in 2015, called bPay, with trials of the wearable technology starting at sponsored events this year. The company hopes that the device will encourage cash-free payments as consumers increasingly turn to card and contactless payments. The British Summer Time music festival in Hyde Park will be [...]
A future of statist confusion underlies Clegg’s pitch for permanent coalition September 18, 2013 NICK Clegg appears to have settled on a new strategy for the Lib Dems. Put unkindly, his aim seems to be to bore the electorate into submission. In fact, in many ways, his speech to the party faithful in Glasgow yesterday was a throwback to the rhetoric of the SDP-Liberal Alliance of the 1980s. He’s [...]
Bolt: I am clean and my junior record proves it July 25, 2013 WORLD’S fastest man Usain Bolt has pointed to his record-breaking feats as a youngster as proof that he, unlike so many of his rivals, remains untainted by doping. Bolt issued a robust defence of his achievements yesterday, two weeks after the positive drug tests of fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay dealt another [...]
Why it’s wrong to blame Osborne’s austerity for weak growth in Britain September 10, 2013 FIVE years ago, nearly every macroeconomist agreed that central banks determined aggregate demand (total spending in the economy), and that fiscal stimulus was therefore unnecessary to lift depressed economies. Conversely, fiscal austerity was seen as irrelevant at best for overall growth; any impact of austerity on demand can be offset by the right monetary policy [...]
Innovation Diary: The lessons in failure our entrepreneurs could learn from the US August 4, 2013 TYPICALLY, nine out of ten entrepreneurship ventures fail. A cursory glance at some of the most inspirational business founders of the past decade – like Peter Thiel, who after founding Paypal saw his hedge fund Clarium Capital lose 90 per cent of its $7bn (£4.58bn) assets – suggests the reality of starting up your own [...]
M&B grabs rival exec as new CEO September 10, 2012 PUB chain Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) yesterday ended its 18-month search for a new chief executive, poaching Alistair Darby from rival group Marston’s. Darby, who served as chief operating officer at Marston’s, will join M&B at the start of next month. The appointment caps a turbulent period for the company, which last year saw off [...]
M&B grabs rival exec as new CEO September 10, 2012 PUB chain Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) yesterday ended its 18-month search for a new chief executive, poaching Alistair Darby from rival group Marston’s. Darby, who served as chief operating officer at Marston’s, will join M&B at the start of next month. The appointment caps a turbulent period for the company, which last year saw off [...]