Take Charge of Your Career Development Today

Take Charge of Your Career Development Today

In today's competitive market, waiting to be promoted is simply not an option. To really advance in your career, you need to take charge of your career development today.

First Round to the Drivers

The Uber case is a salutary lesson for all employers - whether in the gig economy or not - to look carefully at the terms and conditions of their employment contracts. Try and outrun the law by being too clever and it will eventually catch up with you.

Discrimination in Financial Services

Discrimination in Financial Services - the role of the Financial Ombudsman Service

When financial services are withheld with less legitimate cause, the individual in question may have the right to seek redress.

UK - How employment tribunal decisions can impact your business

Whatever the size of your business, employers need to keep abreast of changes in employment law. There have been some interesting cases in 2016 which have given clarification on key decisions which employers may face in the workplace.

How employment tribunal decisions can impact your business

UK - Brexit and Employment Law - just business as usual?

Since the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, uncertainty surrounding the legal implications have been widespread; particularly within the UK employment law landscape.

Brexit and Employment Law - just business as usual?

Uncovering Potential Leaders with Recruitment Assessment

Recruitment assessment is a detailed and highly analytical process carried out by experts in the fields of business psychology and HR.

Uncovering Potential Leaders with Recruitment Assessment

Three Interview Tips You Can Learn from Social Workers

These are just a few ways you can learn from social workers and become a better interviewer.

Three Interview Tips You Can Learn from Social Workers

What Defines a High Risk Employee?

Never be complacent about your employees. Just because they appear to be happy, it doesn't mean they are not looking for a new job.

What Defines a High Risk Employee?

Extra Workload a Challenge for Work-life Balance

A recent survey suggests that office workloads in major European economies have gone up significantly over the last year.

Extra Workload a Challenge for Work-life Balance

Uberisation: how agile working works for lawyers

Agile working has become a paramount concern for many employers, high on their agenda because they recognise that it can help to create a more efficient and effective organization.

Uberisation: how agile working works for lawyers

What do HR Recruiters Look for When Assessing Graduates?

Recruiting from the graduate skills market is not the same as drawing from a pool of experienced candidates. Graduates have no real experience, so their main selling point is their academic qualifications and personality. For a recruiter, it's a difficult task to select one graduate from another...

What do HR Recruiters Look for When Assessing Graduates?

Canada - Smart Retention Strategies Depend on Loyalty

Retaining key members of staff is a constant concern for every organization but even the best retention strategies depend on the loyalty of employees.

Smart Retention Strategies Depend on Loyalty

Always Working? How to Achieve Better Work-Life Balance

Even if you're incredibly dedicated to the job, it's crucial to achieve a reasonable balance between work and home.

Always Working? How to Achieve Better Work-Life Balance

Why More Female Entrepreneurs Should Study Analytics

With analytics playing a crucial role when it comes to determining how well your business is performing, understanding how analytics work is important for many female entrepreneurs.

Why More Female Entrepreneurs Should Study Analytics

Things You Need to Know to Be a Successful HR Professional

Although these basic HR skills are often more than enough to tackle the challenges in hand, there are additional things you need to know to be a successful HR professional.

Things You Need to Know to Be a Successful HR Professional

Software to Revolutionise Your Business from Ecommerce Sales to HR

These days, there are a lot of advanced technological tools that businesses can use to succeed and drive their companies far into the future.

Software to Revolutionise Your Business from Ecommerce Sales to HR

SEO Basics for Recruitment Companies

With millions of people looking for jobs and plenty of employers offering positions, it's no surprise that more and more
entrepreneurs are turning to the recruitment industry for their next business venture.

SEO Basics for Recruitment Companies

How the Gig Economy and Freelancers are Reshaping HR Departments

The gig economy is reshaping today's workforce. Over 50 million Americans worked as freelancers in 2015, according to a study by the Freelancers Union and Upwork. This includes temporary workers, independent contractors, moonlighters, freelance business owners and those with mixed streams of income.

How the Gig Economy and Freelancers are Reshaping HR Departments

The Main Reasons Analytics Systems Are Important in Today's HR Departments

A range of business analytics systems are available that have the potential to transform the fortunes of any business. HR in particular, is an area where these analytics systems could be of great value because each HR department deals directly with past, current and future employees in a business. Below are some of the main reasons every HR department or HR officer should use the latest business analytics systems.

The Main Reasons Analytics Systems Are Important in Today's HR Departments

Recruiting For Diversity

Disability and inclusion policies, including blind CVs, often fail in practice because they are seldom supported by an understanding of true inclusion problems.

Business skills are more important than ever post-Brexit

If the people who are supposed to hold the reigns of the business world are unsure of their ground, how on earth must young people feel when faced with the prospect of getting on the corporate job ladder?

Working for your Workers

To put it simply: our relationship to work has changed.

Time to take on the diversity dilemma

Facebook is the latest in a long line of organisations to have a spotlight shone on its diversity performance.

There are a lot of ways knowledge in accounting can help you perform better as an HR manager.

How Will Accounting Make You a Better HR Manager?

Brexit and Change Management

The certainty of change coming down the line makes this the perfect time to take a look at the challenges inherent in introducing any change within an organisation.

Brexit and Change Management

5 Essential Elements for Optimal Performance Management

The importance of an efficient performance management system is fairly universally accepted in HR circles.

5 Essential Elements for Optimal Performance Management

Australia - Benefits of Using SaaS for Payroll

As payroll is one of the largest costs to employers, it is essential to have systems that provide accurate information and payments in line with current legislation.

Benefits of Using SaaS for Payroll

The secret behind successful flexi-working? Culture

When done well, flexi-working can be a game changer and productivity enhancer. The question is, how do you adopt flexi-working in a way that enhances productivity?

The secret behind successful flexi-working? Culture

European Commission Announces Initiative Package

The European Commission is in the process of implementing a wide-ranging strategy to create a genuine ‘Digital Single Market’ across the EU.

Essentially, the Commission’s objective is to enable businesses and consumers across the EU to take advantage of the wide range of available services that are facilitated by new digital technologies, regardless of national borders. More controversially, certain interest groups and some national governments have viewed the ‘DSM agenda’ as an opportunity to increase the regulatory burden placed on new and innovative business models that are threatening incumbents’ existing business models. So far, the Commission appears to be attempting to strike a balance between these two, largely opposing, objectives, rather than coming down firmly on one side or the other.

European Commission Announces Initiative Package

What career success looks like between men and women

A new study with 2000 workers in the UK on gender equality in the workplace, conducted by REED, has revealed some interesting results.

What career success looks like between men and women

How to Persuade Your Boss to Fund Your Training

Education and training is essential if you want to progress your career, but it can be expensive. The problem is that if you do not keep up
with skills training you run the risk of falling behind your peers.

How to Persuade Your Boss to Fund Your Training

Effective Ways to Create a Great Business Reputation

Creating a great business reputation should be the main aim of any entrepreneur. Customers prefer to deal with organizations and individuals they trust. If this trust does not exist, these customers will go elsewhere, where they know they will be treated better. Below are some of the most effective ways you can ensure that your business is the destination your customers go to when they want to deal with someone they can trust.

Effective Ways to Create a Great Business Reputation

The High Cost of Major Depression In The Workplace

Chances are you can readily name someone you know who suffers from major depression - perhaps even someone you've worked with. It turns out the number of American adults battling the condition exceeds the populations of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined.

The High Cost of Major Depression In The Workplace

Hiring Candidates is Similar to Dating in Today's World?

Just like dating or matchmaking, the goal of recruitment is to find someone who's the perfect fit.

Hiring Candidates is Similar to Dating in Today's World?

Top Tips for Bringing Creativity into the Workplace

For those in the HR world, I believe that creativity is no longer simply a nice-to-have in the workplace. It's a necessity.

Top Tips for Bringing Creativity into the Workplace

A Convergence of People and Place

New research reveals why the performance of commercial property is key to productivity, wellness and overall employee satisfaction

A Convergence of People and Place

UK immigration - what employers can expect in 2016

2016 is already looking like it may be an annus horribilis for UK immigration.

UK immigration - what employers can expect in 2016

Implementing an effective social media policy

Social media's presence in the workplace grows more prolific by the day, and as such is impacting the way in which managers, employees and even job applicants communicate.

Implementing an effective social media policy

Period Leave: What Does It Mean For Your Company?

How do you continue to promote equality in the workplace while simultaneously meeting the needs of those who suffer from clear gender based ailments?

Period Leave: What Does It Mean For Your Company?

Tinnitus: What employers need to Know

Tinnitus is a debilitating condition, and can be caused by exposure to loud or prolonged noise in the workplace, or a head or neck injury.

Tinnitus: What employers need to Know

Workplace Drinking - Where (And How) To Draw The Line

You may be able to stop a problem before it starts by issuing clear guidelines about when and where drinking is acceptable.

Workplace Drinking - Where (And How) To Draw The Line

Bid Writing: 5 Tips to Increase the Quality of Your Bid

Bid writing is difficult, but writing an effective bid that really stands out is your best bet of getting the job you want, especially if you're a freelancer.

Bid Writing: 5 Tips to Increase the Quality of Your Bid

Let's be honest, plenty of us pull 'sickies' in order to have a Duvet Day. Which is why some companies are
cutting right to the chase and making Duvet Days a legitimate thing.

Duvet Days - What Are They, And Should You Offer Them?

Career in a Saree Store

If you are passionate about retail and want to develop a career in a saree store, you should strive to possess the following qualities.

Qualities you should possess for a successful Career in a Saree Store

UK vs US = Who's Winning the Social Recruitment Battle?

In the UK as many as 60% of recruiters have not used social media in the recruitment process compared to just 6% in the US.

UK vs US = Who's Winning the Social Recruitment Battle?

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a condition which is a mystery to many simply due to the fact that is not easily identified, `is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed, and is also not very well publicised.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Successful Job Search

The first months of the year bring about countless new possibilities, and if you follow our tips, you may just land that new job before you remember to hang up your new calendar.

How to Make Your Job Search Successful in the New Year