I take a bus from a student suburb – the area I will be attending university in a few months time, and where I slept at a friend’s flat following arriving last night. It appears a reasonably affluent area: the buildings are sound and well maintained; the trees and grass in the park are neatly cropped and green; the cars on the street are generally new, clean and devoid of the tell-tale nicks of careless driving; and you can practically see the happy haze of mild hangovers of the few well-dressed, young people (generally all students, or new graduates, I’d wager) who’ve made it out into the streets before mid-day this weekend. I have a light hangover myself.
@BPGlobalPR, on the infamous social networking site Twitter, has now become a staple of almost 150,000 fellow Tweeters and they are making their way into conventional media because of it, with @BPTerry (a spoof BP marketing director) appearing in an interview here, and Leroy Stick (the alias of the man directly behind @BPGlobalPR) giving this exposé. Though something makes me suspect they are in fact the same person…
So, is it too soon to make jokes yet? Well no, not for this guy(s)!
The job market is a difficult place at the moment, apparently. Though I don’t understand exactly what this means, since now is the first time I’ve been seriously looking for work – this is my only experience of the professional job market and I have nothing to compare it to, so to me it just seems that it’s always this difficult. A “Recruiter’s Market” is the buzz word I’ve heard from everybody…