With six in 10 businesses in the UK reporting that they are being 'held back' by a shortage of skilled employees, HR magazine asked Karen Beavan (pictured) HR director at River Island, for her...
Despite a surplus of job applicants and high levels of unemployment, many companies are having difficulties finding employees with the right skills to fill vacancies. This has created what some...
After 25 years of experience in HR and business operational roles, John Wrighthouse has been appointed HR director at home emergency repairs firm HomeServe. Attempting to reposition the entire...
Jackson was previously employed as the head of HR for the Scottish Ambulance Service. In this role he was responsible for leading a similar range of HR-related functions for a comparably sized...
His might not be the usual HR career path: from frontline corporate sales to general management and finally chief people officer. But then Jeremy Campbell does know a thing or two about HR, having...
Two weeks ago, travel agent Thomson suffered every businesses customer service nightmare.
December 2012 is the end of an epic sporting year for Britain. In the world of business, it seems that no awards ceremony or black-tie dinner is complete without a token Olympian to sprinkle a little...
HR director of payroll services firm Ceridian believes many organisations face difficulty balancing the need for a lean cost base with the requirements to retain top talent.
Almost 100 years ago, scientist Albert Einstein identified the three great forces that drove the universe as “stupidity, fear and greed”. And 25 years ago, Hollywood character Gordon Gekko in Wall...
American author Washington Irving described Christmas as "the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
Sainsbury's has reinstated the role of group HR director following the announcement that customer service and colleague director Gwyn Burr is leaving the retailer in March 2013 to focus on her...
Robert Bolton, partner in KPMG Management Consulting and global lead of the firm's HR Centre of Excellence, discusses the professional services firm's new research on HR and talent.
