At 6.30am on any Monday morning I am usually found cajoling my 4 year old son to wake-up, accompanied by his cries of “I hate school, I don’t want to go”. Of course, by the time he has a bowl of CocoPops inside him (and accepted my occasional bribe of a new Transformer toy!) he is brimming with excitement about the new school day. When we are young we don’t have a choice about how to fill our days, now we do.
Continue reading Should I stay or should I go?
If it ever happens to you that one of your employees is kidnapped or goes missing in difficult or complicated circumstances, you need to already know what to do and how to react. At the point that the incident starts it is too late to start preparing. And when HR professionals are always so busy focusing on pressing operational issues or trying to snatch some strategic thinking time, it is often difficult to conceive that time spent planning for something that may never happen is well spent. Continue reading Kidnap at work
Education in Western economies is playing catch-up, with few graduates offering the skills that workplaces need. This is a stark finding from the Hays Global Skills Index 2014, and digital skills are some of the most in-demand.
With some of the leading consumer magazine titles in the UK – including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Woman’s Health, Good Housekeeping and Esquire – Hearst Magazines UK is at the forefront of digital publishing, so who better to talk about how the digital revolution has affected the world of work? Continue reading Facing up to change
I recently read an interesting FT article, ‘entitled ‘The Silver Economy: companies train to deal with dementia’ which discussed the demands of an ageing workforce on the HR function. Continue reading Is your business adapting to the demands of an ageing workforce?
As the need for increasingly skilled and specialised talent increases, new technological tools are applying data analytics to the recruitment process. Continue reading The tech tools to help spot talent
It is now sometime since Alan Milburn published his report on Social Mobility in 2012. Two years on it is difficult not to accept the widespread view that social mobility in the UK is still not being achieved. Continue reading Should the HR profession contribute to social mobility?
