How can HR make internships more accessible?

Creating effective, accessible and inclusive internships can be a knotty challenge. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey offers advice for employers wanting to attract interns from a diverse range of backgrounds.

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Employers must boost recruiters’ efforts to employ career returners

Employers must join recruiters in taking bold and urgent action to stop overlooking career returners and quickly get them into the labour market.

A third of HR professionals don’t have AI guidelines

A third (34%) of HR professionals do not have official AI guidelines in their workplace, data from recruitment platform HireVue has revealed.

Back in style: The rise and rise of employee-led resource groups

Employee-led resource groups are back in vogue. How can inclusion-focused HR leaders use this new popularity to their advantage? Peter Crush reports.

How can HR enforce boundaries around workplace banter?

Last year, 57 claims relating to workplace ‘banter’ were heard at employment tribunals, analysis by law firm GQ Littler has revealed.

The undergraduate skills gap is widening. HR must respond

There is a growing gap between traditional undergraduate education and the needs of the workplace.

CIPD offers guide to hiring refugees

The CIPD has today (19 February) published guidance to support employers in hiring refugees.

Six ways employer-sponsored back-up care supports the mass return to office

Across the UK, working parents and carers are being called back to offices in greater numbers, seamlessly balancing professional demands with personal responsibilities.

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Women in their 50s have the biggest gender pay gap

Women aged 50 to 59 are subject to the widest gender pay gap, according to data compiled by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), published on Monday (17 February).

Lessons from the C-suite: Mel Rodrigues, Creative Access

Mel Rodrigues, CEO of social enterprise Creative Access, discusses her career path, inspirations, and what HR professionals need to enter the C-suite.

How personalised communication fuels trust and innovation

Tailoring communication can help managers inspire their workforce to navigate their own path to success.

HR is not perceived as professional, study finds

Nearly half (45%) of business leaders have reservations about the levels of professionalism across HR, marketing and sales, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).