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Nearly 30 per cent of City finance professionals are so worried about the future that they are planning to leave London. This is according to a survey by the City website eFinancialCareers. The report has given rise to fears that the the loss of talent will lead to a downward spiral in the number of jobs available after the recession and that the City of London will lose its status as a major world financial centre.
As we expected, the vast majority of people visiting our stand at the One Life Live exhibition this weekend were looking for new jobs. A significant proportion were already out of work and many more were expecting to face redundancy over the coming months. A recurring theme amongst the people that spoke to us was that they would like to take the opportunity offered by redundancy to move into a new career direction. (more…)