Articles published in October 2008
CIPD relied upon despite HR community’s doubts
The jury is still out on the merits of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualifications. But organisations continue to look for them on CVs as a basic measure of HR competency. Read more »
Ambassador duties are in favour within retail
HR plays a key role in encouraging brand engagement. While always an ingredient of their work, this aspect of the job has never been higher priority, especially within the troubled retail sector. Read more »
A talent rich time for recruitment roles
The scarcity of recruitment vacancies is locking in-house recruiters firmly in battle with agency-side professionals to win them. Read more »
Don’t mistake retention for sure fire loyalty
HR professionals intend to stay put. While we’d all like to put it down to increasing happiness at work, it seems a dip in career confidence is a culprit also. Read more »
HR specialists asked to generalise
As permanent HR specialists see their duties evolve to further support the HR function and their generalist counterparts, competition for their roles has soared. Read more »
Overlooked soft skills are making a comeback
The last six months have seen shared service centres increasingly resort to hiring contract managers to smooth out poor service satisfaction levels. Read more »
Counter-offers lose their teeth.
The results from our latest workplace study, ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’, tells us that 90% of banking and financial services employees are turning down counter-offers when they find a new job. In the current climate of uncertainty, it seems employees are ignoring promises of increased rewards and instead looking for stability and career progression. Read more »
Work-life balance remains priority despite crunch.
Our research, ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’, reveals that seven out of ten (72%) banking and financial services employees feel their companies are facing up to the challenge of work-life balance. It seems employers are placing a high value on ensuring their workforce achieves a good balance, despite the ongoing financial crisis continuing to turn City hairs grey. Read more »
City employers struggling to attract talent.
Four out of ten City employers are finding it hard to attract talent. In fact, one in five of them are finding attraction more difficult than this time last year, despite the current turmoil in the job market and the headline-grabbing redundancies seen in the last twelve months – according to our latest workplace study ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’. Read more »
City prepares for growth in eye of the crisis.
According to the results from our latest workplace study, ‘A Longer Term View: Looking beyond the current crisis’, almost three quarters (70%) of banking and financial services companies are using the current period of economic crisis as an opportunity to restructure their organisation. Read more »
Are you getting the right balance?
Legal employers are finally appreciating the importance of offering their employees a good work-life balance. Results from our research ‘A ticking time-bomb’, reveal that almost two thirds (64%) of all legal employers actively prioritise the issue with their employees; a figure that rises to 79% amongst public sector legal employers. Read more »
Private practice failing the diversity agenda
The public sector is home to the most diverse legal community in the UK. The results from our latest workplace study ‘A ticking time-bomb’ reveal that almost two thirds (64%) of public sector organisations that employ lawyers believe they have a successful process in place to recruit a diverse workforce. In stark contrast to this, only a quarter of legal firms could make the same boast. Read more »
