Football must be the industry with the lowest churn rate in the world. News today that Ipswich Town’s highly rated 22-year-old Shane Supple is leaving the sport to pursue interests elsewhere has caused ripples through the game and made front page news on BBC Sport online. And yet young men and women change career, industry and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lehman Brothers’
Does the BBC know something we don’t?
The BBC has changed the graphic it uses to represent the downturn on its online Business pages from a big red arrow pointing down to a big red arrow pointing up.
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Clearly, this shift in direction is a subtle hint from the BBC that they’ve seen enough good news to believe we’re over the worse of this economic trough. [...]
Watch out! Generation Z are coming
Regular readers of the FreshMinds Talent Blog will know all about FreshMinds’ work on the topic of Generation Y from our survey last year entitled Work 2.0. You may have also read my defence of this misunderstood generation, as I have argued over the past year against the stereotypes that Generation Y are needy, privileged and [...]
People apply for jobs during office hours
The week that Lehman Brothers collapsed more people visited the FreshMinds Talent website than at any other point in 2008. I guess this begs two questions. First, why was this? I suspect it was both the result of former Lehman Brothers employees looking for a new job, and of a general panic in the recruitment market [...]
