The qualifications candidates list on their CVs give no indication of how they will act in the job. Recruiters want a more rounded picture before they select for interview.
It seems you cant make a silk purse from a sows ear. Virtual Worlds learning the technique that is supposed to sound the death-knell for old-school chalk n talk classrooms by beaming learners into...
For a telecoms company Cable & Wireless hasn't been very good at communicating with its own workforce - a situation HR boss Colm Coffey is well on his way to transforming. Peter Crush finds out how.
Rotary International's new CEO, Annemarie Harte, is excited by the explosion of corporate interest in volunteering but admits her organisation needs updating. Peter Crush reports.
The number of corporate-run volunteering schemes has risen along with the importance of CSR on the business agenda. So are employers doing it for the right reasons?
Managements use of e-learning has surged in the last 12 months according to research launched this morning at the Chartered Management Institutes Annual Conference in Birmingham.
This week HR directors are being urged to ask how they can improve the customer interaction skills of staff, as the Institute of Customer Service launches National Customer Service Week (6-11 October)...
Tesco, the UKs number one food retailer, now employs nearly 55,000 workers over the age of 50.
Average pay rises in the past six months stabilised at 3.8% according to figures released today by IDS Pay Databank.
UK unemployment figures could go back to more than two million for the first time in 20 years, according to predictions from the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC).
Different workplace generations "have to learn how they are alike, as much as how they are different", if business prosperity is to continue, according to W Stanton Smith, national director of Next...
Whether staff are engaged or not depends on a variety of factors, such as age, sex, education, status and ethnicity. So what does HR need to do to keep its talent? asks Peter Crush.
