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387 stories foundThe oldest skills are coming back again Matthew Hodgkinson realised that he'd carved himself out a worthwhile niche the day he was asked to design his first gargoyle. Less than six months into his job as a stonemason on York Minster, he was handed the task of sculpting two agonised "grotesques" to replace weathered originals salvaged... |
Agency jobs fall at fastest rate in 5 years The number of people being placed in permanent jobs by recruitment agencies fell at its fastest rate for more than five years in June - yet further evidence of the severity of the slowdown in the UK economy. According to the latest KPMG/ REC monthly employment survey, to be published on Wednesday,... |
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THE STARS IN THEIR LIVES It was surprisingly straightforward to gatecrash the summer drinks party of the Association of Celebrity Personal Assistants. This secretive group had arranged to meet at The Farmer's Daughter, a fashionable but far-from-exclusive hotel on the outskirts of Beverly Hills. By arriving early and... |
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It's not always who you know that counts "Where I'm from, we had never even heard of the word designer," recalls Wayne Hemingway. "If you said that you wanted to be a designer then you'd have got a clip round the ear and told to get a proper job." Hemingway understands better than most how difficult it can be to break into the closed... |
Ever been dumped? Why not make a career out of it Pity poor British film-maker Chris Waitt. Over the years, girlfriends have dumped him by email, in answerphone and text messages, even killed him off as a character in a novel. Hence Waitt's debut feature A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures: a comic documentary in which he reviews his life of... |
Six simple steps to guide you through redundancy More than half a million people every year face the prospect of being made redundant, and for the vast majority this would mean being plunged into a financial crisis. According to research by Birmingham Midshires, a staggering 73 per cent of the population couldn't support their families if they... |
Detectives of the music business Free gigs, the hottest new bands as your best mates, and the chance to discover the next Arctic Monkeys: the life of a record-label scout appears terribly desirable. But is the reality as glam as the dream? Marc Jones, 25, is a scout for Columbia Records, one of the world's most famous labels,... |
How to crack the office dress code The thing about getting dressed for work - the thing that makes it so very difficult - is that work is definitely not about clothes. On the contrary: in the world of earnest employment, such frivolities are almost frowned upon. At the very least, they should appear secondary to one's commitment to... |
