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How the GDPR is about to change the face of the recruitment industry, for the better
I have been talking about the GDPR for a few months now. I’m excited about it, and I’ll tell you why. A few months ago I was involved in THIS conversation on…
5 things my newborn taught me, which 10 years running a business, didn’t.
Before being pregnant myself, I had heard other working mums say that having a baby, equipped them better for work. I couldn’t really imagine it, until I had a baby myself, in…
5 Amazing Reasons Bright Grads in Finance and Law should move to Luxembourg now
Little known Luxembourg, is a super star on a global scale, boasting the largest non-domestic Funds business in the world. The funds industry, the business of investing large pools of capital in…
When actions speak louder than words
When I first started working in Luxembourg, about 10 years ago now, one of the Managing Partners of a top firm gave me a piece of advice: “I operate with one rule,…
How Brexit is impacting the Luxembourg recruitment market
It is almost a year since millions of people woke up to a new reality on 24th June 2016; the UK had decided to leave the EU. I woke up at 4am…
Where change leads us
I was running this weekend in my local park. Along the side of the park is a row of old 70’s pre-fabricated houses, the kind that are actually grey in colour. Uninspiring,…
RESOLUTIONS & TRANSITIONS: The highs & lows of 2016, and expectations of 2017
2016. Depending on whom you ask, you might get varied responses from people. Ranging from “What a year! It was great!” or “Fantastic overall” to “Lacklustre, not ideal” or “absolutely terrible”. What…
How to find your true calling
I’ve spent most of the last 10 years trying to solve this puzzle. What is it that makes a person happy, and how can you match that to a job? Recruiting well…
I set up my own fund because of “Inequity in Founder Economics”
Bang! You lose your investment team in one go! This is what happened to one of my fund management clients recently. The investment team left to launch their own fund backed by…