16 year high as financial service sector cuts jobs
LONDON
Britain’s financial services industry is cutting jobs at the fastest rate for 16 years as it cuts costs to soften the blow of a steep fall in profitability, a survey showed on Monday. The CBI/PWC financial services survey, covering the three months to early March, found 9 percent of companies reporting a rise in business volumes [...]
It is always great to see innovation in recruitment, but is it too radical for the industry?
This is different – a recruitment company that: to use that dreadful cliche…. ‘thinks out of the box‘
Now before you think I am over dramatising this a little, let me tell why it is so different. This company actually pays the successful candidate 50% of the fee they get paid from their clients! Now before any [...]
Businesses that sell things or trade where the product or service is management and is not a discretionary purchase … now that’s smart!
Franchising is used to describe many different forms of business relationships, including licensing, distributor and agency arrangements. The more popular use of the term has arisen from the development of what is called ‘Business Format Franchising’. This today the fastest-growing segment of franchising and has spread to virtually every sector of the economy in UK. It has [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-03-27
0440. Getting ready for the trip today to London. The Pendalino’s are brilliant but expensive. New franchisee joins hopefully #
Fern on £.75m. Well done Fern. What’s Schofield on? #
Two hours thirteen to London from Preston. Makes business easy to do now. Brian Cresswell will have news on Monday; business. Stay tuned. #
These trains are now [...]