Andrea Coleman, 22, is an editorial assistant for Institutional Finance at Financial Times Business, a division of the The Financial Times that covers newsstand and trade publications such as The Investors Chronicle
Nigel Smith has been appointed to track down new comedy talent for UK commercial TV producer and broadcaster Carlton Television. He was offered the job after successfully producing a three-week sitcom festival for terrestrial station Channel 4. Here, the former local newspaper reporter and busker talks to us about the world of TV comedy, and offers
Philippa Thomas, 34, works as Washington correspondent for the BBC. She is married to State Department reporter Richard Lister. In her spare time the pair can be found ‘kayaking in Alaska, driving sled dogs over frozen lakes on the Canadian border, and falling down quite a lot of ski slopes.’ She says life as a
Matt Dickinson is best known for his controversial interview with Glenn Hoddle that led to the England football manager’s sacking from the international scene. Dickinson, a Cambridge graduate, has worked at the Times for the past two years and is the newspaper’s chief football correspondent. We asked him for a few tips on journalistic success
Roxanne McMeekin, 24, is a reporter for financial magazine FT Mandate. She started as an editorial assistant at Reed Elsevier, publisher of science journals, before moving to The Financial Times business division
Graham Stuart first brought the hit Channel 4 TV show So Graham Norton to our screens while controller of entertainment at United News & Media. In September 2000 he and Norton set up their own independent television company, So Television, to continue making the award-winning show and develop new comedy. He offers his advice on
Rob Corney, 22, works as a graduate management trainee at Carlton Television.
Ben Backhouse has recently joined London-based Talk Radio as a production assistant. Backhouse graduated from Bristol University in 1999 with a degree in English. Like many graduates he was keen on a career in the media, but unlike the majority, he has managed to achieve this. We asked him about the new job and whether
Laura Hamilton-Wargent has wanted to be in TV since she was 15. Since August she has been working as a runner at Channel 4, whose trainee scheme has been so popular it is already completely oversubscribed. She gives her perspective on how to break into a fashionable but crowded arena
John Fitton, 23, works for The Lab – the experimental low cost TV production unit set up by LWT in January 1999. Fitton is a graduate of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he gained a first class honors degree in English. He gave us a few tips on how to break into the industry
Toby Watson left Oxford University, where he was a blue in rugby, to balance playing professional rugby for London Scottish, while holding down a full-time job at Deutsche Bank. He was recently headhunted from there by global investment bank Goldman Sachs. We interviewed him about his recent move and how to succeed at the highest level
Walter L Willigan recently moved to PWC Europe from the firm’s New York office, to become director of licensing in the European intellectual asset management practice. Willigan was awarded the US Navy Commendation medal in 1962 for air missions over North Vietnam and Laos. He now lives on Vincent Square, Westminster, central London with his
What is your current title? Client group head, which is a title unique to Coutts. What it really means is that I run one of the client-facing divisions within the bank. Coutts has segmented its client base, so rather than a private banker dealing with a property owner in the morning, the chairman of a
Nicola Donnelly, 22, has worked as a graduate trainee for Flemings bank in London since receiving her degree from the University of Durham in 1999. We profile a graduate success and show you how to get your foot in the corporate door.
Sarah Allatt, 22, received a first class degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. After doing an internship whilst still an undergraduate, she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a postgraduate trainee.
Adrian Cornwall, 24, is a graduate trainee institutional stockbroker with private UK bank Robert Fleming & Co. He works in their European Equity Sales team. The bank is in the throes of change with US banking giant Chase Manhattan in the process of consolidating a takeover
Alf Chubb became a private banker at a leading City bank after a year out working as a cowboy in Argentina. He got his banking job by having a drink with the right person at the right time and has now been there for 18 months What is your day-to-day role? If you’re on the
Astrally projecting itself to the top of the bestsellers list in 1994, The Celestine Prophecy became the must-read of the management and business leadership world. A self-help book-cum-novel-cum-historical myth, The Prophecy encourages its reader to lead a more spiritual life through the discovery of nine ‘insights’, supposedly based on those discovered in an ancient Peruvian
Summary It makes good business sense for firms to make their staff feel good. This new study warns that firms who do not implement a ‘work-life strategy’ – defined as ‘helping people to combine work with family and personal life’ – actually lose competitive advantage to firms who do.
Summary The core theme of this book is Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, otherwise referred to as TOC. Goldratt argues that manufacturing has for too long focused on producing, ignoring what is demanded by the market place, i.e. demand and capacity. Goldratt believes that one should balance flow through a system to meet the demand of
