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Talent location key to company growth

Firms can improve performance and productivity by taking a more strategic approach to talent to market alignment

Bad candidate experiences harm brand loyalty

A negative experience as a job candidate can lead to customers taking their business elsewhere

Industrial strategy "inadequate"

The industrial strategy whitepaper published yesterday, outlines plans for ‘sector deals’ to boost productivity

Firms calculating but not publishing pay gaps

Only 6% of the estimated 4,000 employers covered by the new gender pay gap legislation have made their data public so far

Graduates value soft skills for the future

Graduates believe that technological advancement will have a positive or very positive impact on the future of business

Employers should help employees switch off from work

Employees feel pressure from supervisors, colleagues and technology to work during their free time

Taylor: Gig economy must not grow unchecked

At The HR Dept’s annual conference Taylor spoke on the need for incremental change rather than public policy

Budget reaction: No news is good news on pensions and IR35, experts say

IR35 and pensions avoided much mention, and a new retraining scheme has drawn mixed responses

Open University Business School: A year of insight

?Download this ebook featuring a year of insights from our HR Most Influential partner OUBS

Budget 2017: Retraining scheme to build skills for future

“We need to help people to retrain during their working lives,” said chancellor Philip Hammond

Budget: Businesses fear tax changes for self-employed

Changes to IR35 expected in the Autumn Budget could result in increased prices, warns the REC

Employers must measure youth recruitment effectiveness

Only 15% of employers regularly use data to measure the effectiveness of their youth recruitment