Recruitment of talent: Social media – friend or foe?

Online social networks have grown to be one of the most powerful recruiting tools available to HR professionals. However, while many businesses are adept at using social networking for brand-building...

Harness the corporate digital footprint

Despite all the advances in technology, many organisations are still constrained to operate in an archaic IT landscape that may lack the capacity to embrace today’s social media networks and...

A third of companies worldwide plan to up HR spend to combat recession, says Towers Watson

A third (31%) of companies plan to increase their spending on HR technology in the coming year, in an attempt to continue growth and improve efficiency in the face of a challenging economic...

HR process re-engineering - why this difficult job adds serious value

What is your immediate reaction when you hear the words "process re-engineering"?

US legislation preventing employers from asking staff for Facebook passwords, finds favour with UK employees

As legislation is passed in some US states to prevent employers asking for people’s passwords, a survey by recruiter Barker Ross shows people in the UK are not willing to give potential employers...

Dental firm launches iPhone app to recruit 'new generation' of dentists

Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) has launched a smartphone app to help dental workers and clinicians find positions at the group more easily.?

UK employee enthusiasm for social media spurned, finds Hyphen study

UK organisations are failing to harness social media for effective engagement with staff. This is creating a communications disconnect between employees and management, according to a survey of 1,500...

The preferred mode of engagement with information is to sit forward and interact, not sit back and absorb

"I declare open the Games of London, celebrating the 30th Olympiad of the modern era.” Earlier this month, the Queen announced to a TV audience of four billion the start of the 2012 Olympic and...

Gamification in HR: the reinvention of work

Work is a game. You know that phrase ‘he’s just good at playing the game’? You also know all of those other Americanisms about ballparks, strategic ‘plays’, A-games and so on.

New technologies are key to bringing about change and agility

Human resources is often regarded as an enabler of change rather than an agent. This is clearly wrong.

How to run a successful apprenticeship scheme: hear from HR’s experts now and take part in our interactive research

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Managing the risk of intellectual property theft in a highly connected business

Intellectual property theft is often linked to cases of redundancies or team moves, where an employee leaves the company, taking with them sensitive documents such as business plans, customer...