Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. The Vault Guide to the Top UK Employers is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting.
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The Vault Guide to the Top UK Employers Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. The Vault Guide to the Top UK Employers is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting. |
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The Vault Guide to the Top UK Employers Britain's corporate landscape today is dramatically different to how it was, say 50, or even 25 years ago. Foreign takeovers, historical mergers and acquisitions and the transplanting of much of the nation's historical manufacturing industry to the Far East are realities of business in modern Britain. Globalisation has defined this generation's job prospects. The Vault Guide to the Top UK Employers, 2009 edition features 70 firms --both British owned and those with a major presence in Britain -- that offer great appeal and considerable opportunities to graduates and young professionals. The firms span the most popular sectors in the market right now, including banking and finance, accounting, consulting, consumer goods, energy, engineering and manufacturing, health and pharmaceuticals, law, media and advertising, retail, technology and telecommunications and transport.
The profiles in our guide are based on research and, in many cases, extensive
feedback from students, employees and employers. Working on this guide has been
an educational experience for everyone involved. It could not have been done
without the enormous support and assistance of the companies being profiled who
have asserted their commitment to providing you with information about career
opportunities for graduates and young professionals at the UK?s leading firms.
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House prices have dropped steadily, so homeowners are tightening their belts to offset equity losses. At the same time, inflationary pressures are squeezing real incomes. In January 2008, consumer prices were 2.2 percent higher than a year before and inflation was expected to reach three percent by the third quarter. Experts believe inflation will continue to climb as higher energy, food and import costs feed through to consumer prices. In 2008, increases in the cost of living are expected to far surpass average pay rises.
Debt is soaring too. Average household debt is said to be 175 percent of
disposable income. As a result, financial institutions tightened their lending
criteria in 2007 and no easing is anticipated in 2008. This credit crunch means
revenues are dwindling just as the Government's five year spending boom
grinds to a halt.
