13 reasons you didn’t get the job in the UK
Somewhere on this website, there must be explained the reason why this magazine is called The Shortlisted.
It all origi...
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What it’s like to work in France if you’re not French
Ages and ages ago, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me yet, I decided I was going to find a job in France.
I'...
What rats taught me about humanity
At some unlucky point in my UK life, I was living in Bromley, Kent.
The place was a tiny ground-floor flat covered in d...
Story of my life
Not many people have heard this story, and I’m sure the guy I’ll be talking about doesn’t even remember that day. Sure t...
Interview with Prince’s musical director Morris Hayes
Any rock and pop lover, as well as any human being in their right mind in this poor world, will remember with endless sa...
Dedicated to my fellow 1990s Take That screaming fans
This story begins in the late 90s - right before my early teens - in a community school in Rome, Italy, where myself a...
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29 ridiculous job interview cartoons
Thought you've heard pretty much everything when it comes to scandalously stupid job interview questions, sinister recru...
All the rules I broke to meet Take That
In my opinion, what you can and should be reasonably willing to do to snag an autograph of your favourite celebrity incl...
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The day I didn’t interview Lord Sugar
We both stand behind his office door in silence, waiting for him to let us in.
We don't even bother acknowledging each...
Interview with Zucchero ‘Sugar’ Fornaciari
Zucchero 'Sugar' Fornaciari
It is with a huge amount of honour, thrill and excitement that I have finally interviewed someone I have always wanted t...
Rod Argent, The Zombies and John Lennon’s mellotron: interview
The Zombies, 1960s.
This man and the rock band he founded in the 1960s are legends: along with The Beatles and The Animals, Rod Argent's Zombies hav...
Interview with The Sex Pistols’ bass guitarist Glen Matlock
My sole regret in life is that my life hasn't started as soon as I wanted and that all I know about the most important people and events in history wa...
What Capitalism does to your brain without you even realising it
I have been fired, I have fired myself and then I have fired myself again a million times in my life.
But this time was different, this was the time ...
Like an ice-cream dropped on the ground
Do you remember, back in the days, those musicians in their 20s who would refuse to make money by playing mainstream music?
You must have met at leas...
Why Italians are everywhere
It wasn't an attempt to be listed in the Guinness World Records.
It didn't involve any sort of competition or social media challenges, like - you kno...