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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OpenAI Is Introducing a New Job Interview. It Wants to Know How You Think. OpenAI is testing a new stage in its recruitment process called the “mission interview,” starting with candidates applying for jobs in marketing and human resources.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

British specialist recruitment company SThree has given US-based Circle8 another 14 days to put together a takeover offer that its board might be willing to recommend.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A 27-year-old AI researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic has warned that the technology he was helping develop could eventually make his own job unnecessary.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🔻 Carlsberg Britvic plans to close Marston’s Brewery in Burton, putting around 310 jobs at risk. Cask ale sales have halved in a decade. Turns out even 190 years of history can’t beat people changing what they drink.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Germany recorded 88,000 personal insolvency applications in 2025, an increase of 8.3% compared with the previous year. According to the credit agency Schufa, the proportion of consumers experiencing payment problems also increased from 7.9% to 8.1%.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When Spirit Airlines shut down, its bankruptcy administrators discovered that one of the company’s remaining assets was something nobody would normally think of selling: years of internal conversations.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🔻 Royal Mail is cutting up to 2,500 head-office and support jobs across the UK by the end of 2027. Frontline posties and drivers aren’t affected. Letter volumes have fallen about 70%, while parcel competition keeps rising. Sometimes an entire operating model has to shrink with the market.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A German porcelain manufacturer that survived two world wars, the division and reunification of Germany, and nearly two centuries of economic change is finally closing its doors.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering is undergoing an extraordinary transformation, with some of the industry's most productive developers now running five to ten AI coding agents simultaneously instead of writing everything themselves.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

German chemicals giant BASF is reportedly interested in acquiring rival Evonik, potentially bringing together two major names in an industry struggling with Europe's difficult industrial environment.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UAE investment group Crescent Enterprises has led a $45 million investment in myTVS, an Indian company quietly building a national platform around something extremely ordinary: fixing cars.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dutch construction group BAM has agreed to pay €504 million for A.Hak, a specialist company that installs and maintains the cables and pipelines hidden beneath roads and cities.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The number of jobs companies are trying to fill has barely changed, but the number of people applying for each successful hire is rising quickly.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have started leaving the companies building the world's most powerful AI systems because they no longer want to participate in where they believe the technology is heading.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

European defence-tech start-ups have already raised $7.4 billion in 2026, almost three times the $2.6 billion raised during the whole of last year.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Around 100 technology billionaires added $845 billion to their combined wealth during the first nine months of 2026, the largest increase ever recorded over that period by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rheinmetall has started mass-producing military reconnaissance satellites in Germany, with its factory in Neuss expected to manufacture around 50 satellites every year.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Three McKinsey employees in Berlin are trying to establish something that none of Germany's major management consultancies currently has: a formal works council.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Former Bundesbank president Axel Weber is investing in French fintech Spiko as it prepares to enter Germany, with the latest investment reportedly valuing the company at around €800 million.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

KKR has agreed to buy Gen II Fund Services for $5.1 billion, including debt, putting an enormous valuation on a company most people outside private equity have probably never heard of.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Informa has agreed to pay £2.24 billion for Clarion Events, a company whose products include trade shows for gamers, defence companies, energy executives and consumer-electronics brands.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The global permanent recruitment market generated around $75.6 billion in 2025, yet the largest company in the entire industry controls just 1.34% of it.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More than half of UK professionals, 55%, say they are burnt out at work, according to new research from Robert Half.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

McKinsey estimates that automation could reduce US labour demand by the equivalent of around 36 million jobs by 2035, which sounds like the beginning of a fairly terrifying AI story.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Elon Musk says he will rename his AI company SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Donald Trump's campaign to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence.”

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BT wants to acquire insolvent broadband provider TalkTalk for around £472 million, but what looks like another telecom takeover has become a question of national infrastructure.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ruja Ignatova disappeared years ago, but investigators are still trying to recover the money left behind by one of the strangest alleged financial frauds of the crypto era.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two years ago, sustainability reporting looked like one of the safest growth markets in professional services, and Deloitte and its competitors hired people specifically to serve it.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Germany's economy isn't exactly overflowing with good news, yet a group of relatively small companies is quietly producing some very different numbers.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Investing has become an industry built around finding the next opportunity, yet three financial experts have offered an almost disappointingly simple alternative: have a goal, diversify, keep costs low and stop fiddling with it.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For years, lending money to France was considered almost as safe as lending it to Germany, but investors are suddenly questioning that assumption.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🔻 airBaltic is preparing to cut 500–700 jobs across Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn as the airline restructures amid a deepening aviation crisis and higher fuel costs. That’s a huge reduction for a relatively small carrier. When energy prices spike, airlines feel it frighteningly fast.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Swedish security-logistics group Loomis has completed its purchase of 99.8% of Peru’s Hermes Transportes Blindados, paying approximately $297 million and entering the country for the first time.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

GE HealthCare has agreed to pay $945 million in cash for SOFIE Biosciences, a specialist company making radioactive drugs used in PET scans.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bayer is investing $2.2 billion in a new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio, creating around 600 jobs.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

General Motors, Ford and Stellantis together captured only around 37% of the US new-car market during the third quarter of 2026.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OpenAI has fired three employees following an investigation into one of its most alarming AI safety incidents, saying they violated internal rules governing confidential information.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔻 Nike is planning another round of job cuts as it deepens its restructuring, with weakness in China and falling revenue expectations putting more pressure on costs. The number hasn’t been disclosed yet. Even the world’s biggest brands can’t cut their way around changing consumer demand.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔻 German automotive supplier Breyden will close its iron foundry in Ueckermünde by year-end, cutting all 320 jobs. Falling demand, low capacity utilisation and high labour and energy costs made the plant unsustainable. Europe’s industrial squeeze is becoming a jobs crisis.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Twenty-two countries are calling for something the world has never really had before: an international body capable of overseeing the most powerful artificial intelligence systems.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The world's most powerful technology companies are no longer simply selling phones, advertising, software or cloud computing because some are increasingly providing infrastructure that governments themselves depend upon.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔻 Swiss Steel is planning further job cuts at its German operations as it restructures plants hit by the automotive downturn. No new figure has been given, but its global workforce has already fallen from 13,000 to 6,500. Europe’s industrial slowdown is becoming painfully structural.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bill Gates believes AI and humanoid robots could eventually create an “age of abundance” in which many of today's shortages of goods, healthcare and labour largely disappear.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dutch company Robin Radar Systems began by making airport radars that spotted flocks of birds, but owner Parcom is now preparing a sale that could value the business at around €2 billion.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America's economy is still growing, yet the average period of unemployment has climbed beyond six months, its longest stretch since the mid-2010s outside the pandemic years.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Danish company Onomondo has attracted more than €100 million of new investment led by private-equity firm Aspirity Partners, which is buying a majority stake, while Denmark's sovereign investment fund EIFO increases its existing investment.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🔻 BMW is cutting its management structure by 20% by mid-2027, starting with senior roles in Germany. The wider programme aims to reduce BMW’s global workforce by around 8,000 as it battles high costs and weaker Chinese demand. Europe’s car industry is being rebuilt while it’s still running.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BMW plans to reduce the number of management areas and associated management functions by 20% by the middle of 2027, starting with relatively senior divisional management positions.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elon Musk believes AI and robots could eventually create so much economic abundance that society moves beyond universal basic income to what he calls “universal high income.”

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Europe's workforce is heading towards an unusual problem: employment is forecast to grow by just over 4% between 2023 and 2035, yet employers could still struggle badly to find enough people.

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