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I was gobsmacked by the results of Personnel Today’s research into attitudes of HR professionals towards taking international assignments. Probably the best two years of my career were those I …

Head to head a regular monthly series where we look at similar roles in different sectors and industries This week Jane Cotton, HR director at Oxfam, and Mark Barrett, head …

This week Jane Cotton, HR director at Oxfam, and Mark Barrett, head of HR at The Body Shop, compare notes on their careers

HR specific/ related courses HR Strategy in Transforming Organisations is a five-day course held several times a year as part of London Business School’s open enrolment programme. It also holds …

I am a senior HR manager for a medium-sized company. I have read a lot recently about interim management and am quite attracted to the idea. What could I expect …

Figures published today by the Office for National Statistics suggest that British manufacturing has slipped into recession. Manufacturing output has fallen for the second successive quarter, which is the accepted …

UK firms are facing up to £2.5 billion in fines due to the slow implementation of stakeholder pensions, according to the latest research. The government launched the stakeholder initiative in …

Industry minister Alan Johnson has denied that the Government is considering backing plans to publish the names of people who have applied to employment tribunals on the Internet. The Employment …

More than three quarters of employees believe that there will be no change to job security under the new government. A survey of 2,063 adults by HR consultants Eden Brown …

Job seekers in the UK like to stretch the truth on their CVs, according to research conducted by MORI. The survey of over 1,000 staff for CVvalidation shows that more …

For every person who wins compensation for repetitive strain injury there are another 50 suffering in silence according to the TUC. It claims that only 3,000 people of the 150,000 …

The Health and Safety Commission has awarded a contract to York Consulting of Leeds to run its Worker Safety Adviser pilot scheme. The scheme will provide specially trained safety advisers …

Predictions that office workers will be replaced by people working from home using high-tech links have failed to materialise, according to a TUC report published today. Instead home computers are …

Wilts Wholesale has reduced staff turnover and sickness absence and improved sales by introducing a number of flexible working initiatives. The electrical wholesale company used a DTI Challenge Fund award …

An HR consultancy has come up with a novel response to the cur­rent economic downturn and a depressed share price – it has stepped up its recruitment. Frank Varela, chairman …