Images last week of workers flooding out of Lehman Brother's Canary Wharf headquarters, clutching cardboard boxes of personal belongings, raised the question of what executives and staff should do if they are facing redundancy - other than perusing the job advertisements that surround this column.

It is still unclear how many jobs may be saved, as rival financial institutions pick over the bones of the failed bank, but a great many are likely to be forced to look for new opportunities.