London Councils Cut 5,000 Jobs
Front-loaded cuts mean losses of some frontline jobs.
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Microsoft To Create 1000 Apprenticeships In London
“I see you’re starting a career. Would you like help with that?”
Royal Mail May Axe Nine Elms Mail Centre
The low, bunker-like Royal Mail sorting centre in Nine Elms, and another at Twelvetrees Crescent (what is it with the post office and dendronumerology?) in Bow Locks, could be axed as part of the postal service’s “modernising” agenda — yes, the same one that resulted …
Evening Standard Drops Midday Edition
Photo / bltphoto From January, the Evening Standard will drop its midday edition, switching instead to a single, final West End edition which will hit newstands at 2pm. The culling of the current two-paper policy will, editor Geordie Greig hopes, allow the Standard to ensure …
London Lite To Close
Image / Jon Smalldon Barely three years after it began, London’s afternoon freesheet war has ended: in a not unsurprising move, Associated Newspapers have announced that they are to close the London Lite. Launched in 2006 as a spoiler to News International’s The London Paper, …
2012 Job Prospects
Sizing up the Olympics as your chance to shine in a non-athletic way? Help is at hand if you’re career minded enough to be thinking ahead. A new website Podium Skills London offers information on the key industries involved in 2012 and ‘employment forecasts’ indicating …
Alain de Botton Takes Job At Heathrow Check-In Desk
Image / Haemmboerger Has the harsh economic climate driven philosopher and School of Life founder Alain de Botton to a gig at the grubby coalface of customer service? Not quite: according to The Observer, he’s taken a job at Terminal 5 in order to research …
Nuts To NATS
Where NATS used to live, now the Civil Aviation Authority building by Michael Wailes via the Londonist Flickrpool. If you’re thinking about a change of career or have recently been made redundant, whether from the city or Woolworths, you’re going to need to be creative …
Walkabout Woe As Aussies Abandon London
Have you noticed a little less vomit smeared on the sidewalk outside your local Antipodean imbibery? Seems that our board short-wearing buddies are deciding to head back home. According to The Times, “record numbers” of Australians are departing, with around 2,700 leaving every month, many …
