Assess candidates on potential impact, not personality
Assessing candidates and employees on their potential to make a positive impact, rather than cultural fit, could be the most important people decision you ever make. Here, Nathan Ott, The GC Index, sets out five unique ways people can add value and how to uncover these proclivities in the recruitment process.
New year, new HR policies: A guide to updating your people framework
HR policies are not ‘one and done’ documents; they are living guidelines that should be updated as work evolves. To kick start 2024, Kelly Tucker, Managing Director at HR Star, outlines how to refine your people framework to remain relevant.
How to build an inclusive employee value proposition
Why an EVP centred around inclusivity is so powerful.
What is skills-based hiring – and why has it become so important?
Discover how skills-based recruitment can supercharge your talent roster.
How to handle applicants with a criminal past
Transparency, ability and open-mindedness are key when considering applicants with criminal convictions
Three secrets to surviving and thriving in 2023
Overcoming the greatest workforce challenges of the 2020s means facing the music and modernising processes
Five ways to create an authentic job post for diverse and inclusive hiring
Committing to a diverse workforce means embedding D&I in talent acquisition activities and aligning corporate content and ideals
Psychometric testing for your recruitment teams: The overlooked ingredient to hiring success?
Could psychometric testing your recruitment team (not just candidates) be the overlooked ingredient to hiring success?
Twitter: Elon Musk is running an employee value proposition in reverse
If the new owner of the struggling social media company wants his workforce to become more productive, he’ll have to make Twitter an attractive place to be.
Reverse retention tactics growing in economic downturn
The potential of an upcoming ‘reverse retention’ trend could be a thorn in HR’s side. How can you mitigate this risk?
‘No snowflakes’ – is job advert discriminatory, or just direct?
A viral job advert has come under fire for using discriminatory language but how can you be direct without causing offence?
Digital onboarding: Is there an optimum way to integrate new starters?
Why digital onboarding is a fundamental cog of the new starter machine and how to do it properly.
Beat recruitment bottlenecks in a fast-growth company
Avoid common recruitment woes when your need new hires fast.
Josh Bersin urges businesses to stop using ‘post and pray’ recruitment
New research from Josh Bersin shows organisations are stuck using outdated recruitment practices. It needs to stop.
Three ways HR can ease the skills shortage
Recruiting young overseas talent may fill much-needed roles while offering a unique career-building experience in the UK jobs market
Neurodiversity can no longer be the missing link in inclusive and accessible design
To create a truly inclusive workplace, employers and designers must collaborate to create a work environment that champions neurodiverse individuals.
Tory leadership contest risks disrupting the UK’s skills and levelling up ambitions
As we begin a summer-long Conservative leadership contest, it’s essential for the government to continue focusing on the levelling up agenda.
What can businesses learn from the Tory leadership race?
What recruitment lessons can employers take from the Tory leadership hunt?
Protect your company culture from social threat
Protect your people and culture from bullying behaviour.
The overlooked talent: Seven misconceptions hindering refugee recruitment
Dr Betina Szkudlarek and Dr Eun Su Lee discuss seven misconceptions that prevent HR managers from considering refugees as a valuable source of talent.
