Have you got what it takes to be an HR director?
Securing an HR director job is tough. If you apply for an HRD role, you’ll be faced with strong competition from both inside and outside the organisation. There are some common factors that employers look for when hiring. Ideally, you’ll be someone who is currently a senior HR business partner or a head of HR, […]
News: Local hubs to help employers share under-utilised workers’ skills
A scheme that enables employers to share the skills of under-employed staff was launched today in Northern Ireland and will be rolled out across the UK over the next three years. Skill Exchange UK is a not-for-profit organisation set up by employers such as Royal Mail, Veolia and the Cabinet Office as well as the […]
News: Employers flout discrimination law for migraine sufferers
Employers may be flouting disability discrimination legislation by failing to make reasonable workplace adjustments for employees who suffer from migraines, a charity has warned. According to a survey conducted by the Migraine Trust, a worrying three out of sufferers who work said that their employer had not made any changes to try and ease their […]
Blog: Segmentation as a tool for employee engagement
As we work towards the end of the year, one of Melcrum’s research team’s key priorities is to connect with our Strategic Communication Research Forum members to agree on the themes we should focus our research efforts on next year. One of the topics we’ve been discussing year on year is the constant changes around […]
Blog: How to get employee recognition programmes right
Recognize This! – Culture management continues to rise in importance to HR leaders as the ability to measure and analyze culture also improves through strategic employee recognition. A couple of weeks ago, in a broader post on how to get more value out of your core values, I alluded to the SHRM/Globoforce Fall 2012 Report. […]
Three considerations for effective succession planning
In the wake of the crisis that engulfed the BBC following the Jimmy Savile scandal, the broadcaster’s director general, George Entwistle, was forced to resign after only 54 days in the job. But less than a fortnight later, the BBC Trust was able to announce his replacement. Lord Tony Hall of Birkenhead, chief executive […]
Ask the Expert: What benefits are included under a TUPE transfer?
The question I am currently working on a TUPE project and need some help on issues relating to terms and conditions of employment. Under TUPE law, I understand that an employee transfers under the terms and conditions of their employment. But my question is how do you determine what is contractual or not if, […]
News: MPs call for action over recruiters’ worker expenses schemes
A group of MPs stepped up pressure on the government today to crack down on the travel and subsistence expense schemes being imposed on temporary workers by some recruitment agencies in order to cut their tax bill. To this end, the five, who were led by Labour MP Michael Connarty, introduced an Early Day Motion […]
News: Public/private sector pay gap widens, gender pay gap eases
Public sector workers now earn on average £86 per week more than their private sector colleagues, with the pay gap continuing to widen. According to research by the Office for National Statistics, a typical full-time public servant is now paid £565 per week, while their private sector counterparts earn only £479, making the differential about […]
Blog: Making recruitment pinteresting
With the rise of social media, a 2-page formulaic CV is quickly becoming an old fashioned way of understanding what personality and talents a candidate has. Today, it’s all about their Twitter feeds, LinkedIn profile, Facebook, and increasingly, Pinterest. In June this year, Pinterest recorded a staggering 10.4 million users, and 400% month-on-month growth, […]
Book Review: Effective time management in easy steps
The author’s credentials for sharing his insights into effective time management are good. John Carroll was a project management consultant who looked after initiatives for a wide range of clients in sectors ranging from government, finance and manufacturing to pharmaceutical, software development and the emergency services. He also has experience of training other project […]
Legal Insight: Have you renewed your foreign worker sponsorship licence?
A major retailer was fined £115,000 earlier this month for employing foreign students who were breaking the conditions of their visas. At the present time, it is unclear whether the supermarket chain’s sponsorship licence is likely to be revoked or suspended too, however. You may also remember the press coverage at the end of […]
News: HR pros among most impatient when job-seeking
HR professionals are an impatient bunch when going for a job, expecting employers to make a hiring decision after two job interviews and for the whole process to take no more than a month. According to a survey undertaken by recruitment consultancy, Robert Walters, some 72% of HR practitioners anticipate that the entire job application […]
Quiz: How people-centred is your organisation?
Adopting a people-oriented approach to your organisational culture can help to transform it by making it more efficient and, ultimately, more successful. Helen Sanderson, who has co-authored a book entitled “Creating person-centred organisations” with Stephen Stirk, believes that going down this route gives staff more control over their lives as it means that they are […]
Blog: The HR Headmistress – Adrian Smith and the social media issue
The number of problems that arise from the use of social media has, in recent years, increased dramatically. Facebook now has over 1 billion users, more than 500 million people are said to be tweeting and over 100 million professionals are connecting with each other on LinkedIn. Every day more and more users of […]
In a Nutshell: Five ways to ensure that HR works effectively with the business
Susie Robinson is well used to dealing with a large and complex workforce in her role as senior vice president of HR for DHL Supply Chain in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As head of HR for EMEA at the world’s largest logistics company, she offers her advice on how the function can best […]
All you need to know about hiring a former drug or alcohol user
I’ve spent much of the last 17 years working with current and former drug users, homeless people and ex-offenders in London and Sheffield. Much of that time has been taken up helping them to access services, which include housing, treatment and mental health support, so that people have the necessary assistance to try and turn […]
News: Tech City employers launch apprenticeships for 500 young Londoners
High-profile employers such as Google and Facebook have unveiled a Tech City-based apprenticeship scheme for 500 unemployed young Londoners. An additional apprenticeship training centre in the Olympic Park broadcasting centre will also provide up to 350 young people each week with suitable skills training to work in Europe’s fastest growing technology cluster. The […]
Blog: Five ways to ‘master the moment’
In an instant, you can change your mind. You change the impression you had of someone, or you decide something is not a good idea after all. Politics is full of these moments. General David Patraeus had to resign after being caught in an extra-marital affair. In a moment, questions arose about his military judgment. If […]
Blog: What we can learn from Hitler’s dark charisma
It has been a tough week in the media for charisma. Last Monday night historical writer and documentary maker Laurence Rees’ new 3 part series The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler started on BBC 2. This series, about an awkward, dysfunctional man who developed “a level of charismatic attraction almost without parallel in history”, is unlikely to […]