Dear readers — welcome back from what we can only hope was the best weekend of your lives.
It’s getting increasingly hard to ignore the fact that Manchester is now the centre of the universe. Last Friday, No.10 North was launched a mere minute’s walk away from our office, rendering No.10 South, and indeed London as a whole, a little passé. Gimmicky, if you will. PM Burnham referred to the opening as the best day of his life. "I'm not joking either,” he added. “I know you think I am, but I’m not.” We’ve reached out to his wife and children for comment but they’ve not got back to us.
But that’s not all. On that very same glorious day, Time Out magazine released a list of the 22 best pubs in the UK, and by this point it perhaps goes without saying that a Manchester drink-ery was at the very top of it. London didn’t come in till no.14. Still, Burnham’s best-day-ever was likely knocked off the top spot just two days after it entered, because Sunday was none other than Manchester Day itself, which we imagine will soon be declared a public holiday by our new PM.
You might think that after such a glorious weekend for our city it’s all downhill from there. But you’d be wrong, because tonight things get even better — tonight is the night of The Mill’s Official Mayoral Hustings, tickets for which were so incredibly popular that they sold out in just three days. If you were lucky enough to bag one, you’ll be joining the entire Mill team and the top five candidates for Manchester’s mayoral by-election at the Friend’s Meeting House tonight, for what will undoubtedly be the new best day of all of our lives. We’re not joking either.
But before all that, to help pass the time until we gather tonight — your briefing.
Why we should pay more attention to 0.1% of our DNA
Paul O’Donnell has worked in the tech sector for years, making a career out of fixing broken systems. In that time he’s come to see one system as more broken than the rest: the hiring process. So, he founded Point One People.
As it happens, all of our genetic differences are crammed into 0.1% of our DNA. That’s the 0.1% that has O’Donnell’s attention. His approach is not to treat diversity as a last-stage add-on, but rather, as the central pillar of the recruitment process. That’s what sets his company apart. Where standard hiring practices can be transactional, Point One People prioritises building trust with under-represented communities in the sector. To learn more, click below.
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