BIG NEWS. A friend’s partner’s friend is in TV, darling, and needs a journo type to work on a top-secret project. True, it’s only for a few weeks and they probably want a work-experience person with spots and ambition rather than a grizzled hack like me, but it’s an opportunity to road-test my new high-octane CV.
I make the amendments suggested by the expert I consulted last week and whack it over by e-mail. Five minutes later the friend’s partner’s friend is on the phone arranging an interview. Blimey.
Meanwhile, I talk to Alison Gill, the MD of Getfeedback, a talent-management consultancy, who frightens me to death by talking about assessment centres. At first these sound as if they could be a surprise new entry