You might remember Sandersonâ??s story. She was sacked for after her picture appeared on her blog (also entitled Petite Anglaise).

As her employer (Sanderson was a secretary for the firm), Dixon Wilson felt it had been cast in a bad light. She won her case for unfair dismissal.

Celebrating the release of the book, Sanderson writes on the Amazon website how her life has changed: â??If someone had told me a couple of years ago that I'd be posing for photographs destined for a Sunday newspaper on a Paris roof terrace on Valentines Day 2008, I doubt I would have believed them. It would have sounded terribly glamorous to me then, as I hammered away on my keyboard, typing a letter to a French tax inspector for my boss, wondering whether my boyfriend - James at the time - had been disingenuous enough to take my "Valentine's Day is commercial nonsense' tirade seriously".'

She complains of the cold during the photo shoot. â??When I get home, an hour and a half later, the first thing I do is immerse my icy feet in a bowl of warm water. They itch and burn as circulation is restored. â??There are days - not many I'll grant you - when I feel kind of nostalgic for my unglamorous secretarial job with its toasty-warm central heating.â??

I doubt it.

But the upshot of the Income Data Services survey is worrying nonetheless.

In the same way that markets quickly forget and unlearn lessons (what price another bank gets itself in all sorts of trouble 20 years hence after an expansion spree funded by cheap credit), so do recruiters.

Accountancy firms have struggled in the last few years to recruit enough bright young things to do the work that their clients have demanded. It’s depressed their earnings.

More enlightened senior partners have admitted to me in the recent past that they had made a mistake in choking off their graduate recruitment programmes during the last recession.

The negative effects in the good times outweighed the benefits of lower headcount in the bad times.

Will firms (and others) make the same mistake this time? We’ll at least some already are. A

ccording to the IDS survey (of almost 100 private and public sector graduate employers) at least two groups have put a graduate recruitment freeze in place.

I just hope they’re not accountancy firms.