Talent management

Five lessons on building an internal talent pipeline

The UK’s labour shortage is a riddle that employers have been trying to solve since before the pandemic. But was the answer right in front of them all along?

UBS-Credit Suisse: Selecting the right executive team after an acquisition

UBS’s acquisition of Credit Suisse has made headlines in the past few weeks.

Elon Musk’s new Tesla hiring policy ‘disrespectful to HR’

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has sent an email to staff saying he must personally approve all new hires, but HR and recruitment professionals have said this will waste time and risks biased hiring.

Don’t believe the CV is dead

The CV always was, and still is, the key to unlocking the interview gates. It’s not that digital technology has passed executive search by, in fact, it has helped enormously, but nothing quite...

Employers face a growing rift in government on hiring talent from abroad

In her closing speech to the 2022 Conservative party conference in Birmingham, prime minister Liz Truss hit out at “the enemies of enterprise” while insisting she was aligned with her chancellor in...

HR needs to focus on people intelligence – here's why

In a world order that seems to resist simplification with a myriad of huge, complex and interconnected challenges, declaring one most important issue to focus on may seem like something more elusive...

Why micro-upskilling will help HR teams improve talent retention

The need to invest in people and expand employee skillsets isn’t anything new or unexpected. Yet many organisations still lack a genuine learning culture where continuous, structured upskilling is a...

Four ways HR can be disruptive

This week HR professionals met at the Royal Institution in London for DisruptHR’s series of quickfire talks on innovation in the people profession.

Spotlight your early careers strategy at the 2022 HR Excellence Awards

If you host outstanding apprenticeships, graduate schemes, T-levels or other programmes to help young people get started in their careers, this new category for the 2022 HR Excellence Awards could be...

Where do you draw the line with social media screening?

If there’s anything high-profile media storms have taught us, it’s that brand is everything. Organisations like Google, BrewDog and Goldman Sachs know all too well how much social media can fuel this...

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Public service: Government of Jersey HR lead Mark Grimley on building community

The remit for the HR lead at the Government of Jersey extends beyond the average day-to-day, but Mark Grimley’s power to deliver change is any HRD’s pipedream, finds Beau Jackson.

The talent crisis: panic hiring is not the answer

As the UK hits the highest number of job vacancies in 20 years business leaders are panic hiring to fill vacancies and to heal financial wounds. Yet an underlying theme predicted to surface from the...