By Toby Williamson | 7 February 2012
I fully understand the public outcry about big corporate bonuses. I also appreciate the argument that in a global pool of talent you need to pay the best to attract the best. Things are more wide reaching than this though. £1m to a business the size of BP or RBS is a drop in the [...]
By Toby Williamson | 26 January 2012
I see that the actual Olympic build cost has topped £12bn now and the overall running costs of the whole event are now tipped to be £25bn. This is over 10x’s the original budget and estimate. How on earth do they miscalculate by such a huge margin? Builders are notorious for running over budget and [...]
By Toby Williamson | 4 January 2012
A time for looking forward and a time to look back – last year had its ups and downs like most but thankfully more ups than downs. What will 2012 have in store? The olympics will be an exciting profile raiser for the country and as a nice counterbalance we are promised a double dip [...]
By Toby Williamson | 20 December 2011
Well the wait is nearly over – Christmas is upon us and very shortly the exodus of people for the festive break will begin in earnest. That said we have interviews taking place all this week all over the UK right up until Friday and have meetings pencilled in for between Christmas and the New [...]
By Toby Williamson | 9 December 2011
Well the cold winds and snow can’t stop the recruitment train which is still thundering along the tracks into Christmas. We are seeing activity levels still very high considering it is party/shopping/mice pie season and we are still receiving numerous roles from clients eager to recruit before Christmas and get people started in early 2012. [...]
By Toby Williamson | 7 November 2011
G2 Legal has moved offices in London to lovely new accomodation on Bloomsbury Square. This has given us the scope for further expansion as we aim to double the size of the dedicated team here in the next 12 months. It has been a tremendous year for the team who celebrated their move in style [...]
By Toby Williamson | 27 October 2011
I interviewed an NQ commercial litigator this week who had been advised by another agency that their best career move would be to move into personal injury work given the lack of commercial NQ roles at the moment. Really? Having met the candidate and talked about her loves and loathes of law it was clear [...]
By Toby Williamson | 18 October 2011
So they are pumping £75bn into the economy to stimulate it. Energy prices are rising. Would it not make perfect sense to use the £75 bn to manufacture (in the UK) and install (using UK installers) solar and wind power centres on all UK homes and businesses that wanted them – “free of charge”? We [...]
By Toby Williamson | 12 October 2011
We have become very dependant on technology. The BlackBerry black out this week shows how the failure of one device in our life can leave us technologically crippled. At work periodically we have server failures or internet outages. When they happen we are lost at sea. We rely totally on some pressed plastic and bent [...]
By Toby Williamson | 10 October 2011
The England rugby team have been getting the wrong sort of headlines for the past few weeks. Obviously losing to France has not helped their cause but I could not help but wonder why they are being lambasted for some of their off-field stunts. Jumping of a ferry (presumably for a bet) is clearly a [...]