Jonathan Black
Contributing Writer at Financial Times
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Oct 12, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Jonathan Black |Lucy Tobin
Katie Hickman can pinpoint the moment when she first heard the words “spring internship”. It was her first day as a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), when she was navigating her strange new surroundings while struggling with the jet lag that had set in after her flight from her home in America. “Someone came up to me and, instead of saying ‘hello’, said: ‘How many ‘spring weeks’ have you applied for?’ ” Hickman’s head was spinning.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
finance.yahoo.com | Jonathan Black
Jonathan BlackWed, May 1, 2024, 5:00 AM3 min readHow a Capital One leader champions authenticityThis story is brought to you by our partners at Capital One. As Chief Procurement Officer at Capital One, Clint Grimes recognizes that his senior position comes with an audience tuning into what he says and how he shows up. He does the one thing he’s best at: being himself. Since joining Capital One in 2021, Clint has shared the benefits of Capital One’s workforce diversity.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
glasgowstandard.com | Jonathan Black |Jonathan Black
Glasgow Science Festival has released its programme for 2024 today, in what is set to be its largest yet. The theme for this year’s event, which is now in its 18th year, is ‘Glasgow’s Transforming’ and it is set to be a celebration of the city’s scientific and technological past, present and future.
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Mar 5, 2024 |
ft.com | Isabel Berwick |Manuela Saragosa |Jonathan Black
Crafting a CV (or résumé) can be extremely tedious; wading through CVs as a hiring manager can be just as boring.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
bsg.ox.ac.uk | Jonathan Black |Jack Connolly |Amina Adjerid |Thomas Kelsey
While the re-emergence of geopolitical competition now dominates the global policy debate, and drives some of the most dynamic areas of policy development, less attention is being paid to the implications of this new context for the process of how policy is made. This report sets out the conclusions of the Heywood Fellowship’s inquiry: how policymaking at the intersection of economic and security interests needs to change to keep ahead geopolitical and wider global trends.
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