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While Yours Truly may have missed out of the Nobel Prize, his Disciple Jonathan has alerted him to the far more important and prestigious Personnel Today Awards , which took place on 30th November. While Guru once again failed to win a gong - he senses a concerted effort here to keep him from the trophy-winning elite - he can recommend that all HR practitioners...

While Chas and Cam were getting gunked in their Roller as ejerkashun protestas lost their tempers in central London, Yours Truly was skulking around the corridors of no power in Oslo today, awaiting his last-minute call-up for the Nobel peace prize , having been 'encouraged' to be available by his... um... 'suppliers' from far away across...

We in HR love our jargon, probably more so than most professions. But even HR would struggle to beat some of these baffling and bad examples of official documents and communication from government departments, councils and the private sector. The Plain English Campaign has handed out its annual Golden Bull Awards to the worst offenders. Some of these...

Here are a selection of the latest entries into the competition to win a pair of tickets to the Personnel Today Awards. Disciples will remember that all the competition involves is emailing , in no more than 30 words, why you should go. Victim of Shared Services induced trauma seeks hedonistic, swanky night out in glamorous classy joint to redress balance...

Here are the latest entries into Personnel Today's competition to win tickets to its annual awards night in London later this year. Disciples will remember that all the competition involves is emailing, in no more than 30 words, why you should go. Even the basic instruction to follow a word limit seems to be beyond some people, as does repeated...

Guru's august organ Personnel Today is running a competition to win five pairs of tickets to the glitzy annual awards / booze-up at the Grosvenor House Hotel at the end of November. Disciples wishing to win these golden tickets should email personneltoday@rbi.co.uk saying why - in fewer than 30 words - you should get to go along. Extra points awarded...

News reaches Guru on the jungle drums of one organisation that definitely won't be winning at this year's Personnel Today Awards. So upset are the top brass at Network Rail at recent magazine articles spotlighting the behaviour of its HR director Peter Bennett, that in a fit of pique they have withdrawn their entry. A disgruntled employee from...

The Golden Raspberry Awards - or Razzies - are held every year alongside The Oscars to salute the worst Hollywood has to offer. In honour of these alternative awards, Guru has launched his own HR Oscars - the Blueberry Awards, to recognise all that is rubbish in HR and the world of work. Worst Training Initiative Carlsberg's decision to shut down...