Business

Liverpool has been ranked as the number one city to find a job this spring, with Brighton, Birmingham and Sheffield following close by. The number of vacancies increased by an impressive 20 per cent on the Mersey, suggesting that business confidence is strong in the North West. London also ranked in the top ten, with vacancies increasing by 12 per cent in the last month. The top 10 locations where job numbers are rapidly rising: Liverpool (19.9%) Brighton (18.8%) Birmingham (14.8%)...

Why foreign languages are key to the success of London’s financial industry. In the wake of last year’s referendum, there was plenty of talk about how the decision to leave the European Union will affect Britain’s financial industry. Almost 7 months on, the precise future of London’s financial sector still remains unclear. The importance of the EU to the capital’s financial industry is undeniable. The financial sector is the UK’s biggest exporting industry, with a £67 billion contribution to the...

Brexit Britain is good news. For Brexit Brussels. Lloyds of London looks set to become Lloyds of London and Brussels with one in six staff of one of the world's biggest insurance markets moving to Belgium to secure a post-Brexit foothold in Europe. The announcement will be a major embarrassment for sections of the press cheering this morning what Theresa May called an opportunity "to shape a stronger future for Britain."  The humiliating reality check comes just one day after Theresa May set out her...

Thousands of Brits have registered as Estonian e-residents to maintain EU links following Brexit. The program allows individuals from anywhere in the world to set up an Estonian "sister" company and maintain close links with the EU after Brexit, ensuring that they are safeguarded from the fall out and continue to access valuable benefits of EU membership. UK copywriting company Red Robot is one such company to formally apply for registration of a new Estonian sister company, allowing them to access all of...

PRINCE2 is world-renowned for being the best project management framework out there right now. 2017 will bring the first proper update to PRINCE2 for nearly a decade. This follows lots of feedback from project management personnel all over the world. The main aim of this update is to bring PRINCE2 into the world we live in today. A lot has changed in the working world since 2009 (the last update), and project management is different to how it was back...

A multi-million pound programme designed to open up a wealth of employment opportunities for young disabled Londoners has been announced today. The City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, City Bridge Trust, pledged its commitment to narrowing the employment gap for young disabled people in the capital with a new £3.3million fund for organisations tackling the issue. Over the next three years, the Bridge to Work Programme will provide money for projects which offer employability support for young disabled people, and...

There’s no doubting the massive growth of online craft sites like Etsy and Threadless. Developed in 2005 as an online marketplace for co-founder Rob Kalin’s unique wood-encased computers, Etsy is the leading community forum for artisan crafters, and registered thousands of sellers within months. It now rivals the likes of eBay and Amazon marketplaces as the platform for artisanal producers, having given plenty of small businesses their start. The custom t-shirt company Threadless prints and sells over a million t-shirts...

UK airlines may be forced to relocate their headquarters and sell off shares to EU nationals if they want to continue flying routes within continental Europe, the Guardian has revealed. Prominent 'Remain' campaigner Michael O'Leary warned that flights between the UK and Europe might be significantly affected if the government opts for a hard divorce, which looks to be the likely course based on recent revelations. Executives from easyJet along with the British Airways owner IAG, Ryanair and the Tui Group...

Customer service will become a thing of the past by 2020 after new data revealed that 85 per cent of customer engagement interactions will be managed without people. Talking at the Systems in the City Conference (SITCC) held at the London Stock Exchange, Microsoft's Richard Peers suggested that "automated intelligence" will overtake people allowing firms to "engage with customers in a natural way, conversationally and in context". Hmmm....  I wonder how many mobile phones have been destroyed because of automated call centres?...