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Financial services companies have overtaken telecoms and new media firms in offering the highest salaries to IT professionals, according to research. An IT director in the banking and finance industry …
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The gender pay gap between university academics is widening, according to research released today. Some UK universities are only paying women about 75 per cent of the average male academic …
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Investment bank UBS Warburg is to pilot a concierge service that will organise anything from cat sitting to social events to help employees balance work and home lives. It is …
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Ground-breaking research published this week will confirm that UK companies are making big strides in improving staff consultation and gearing up for the forthcoming European directive. The Involvement and Participation …
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A series of mergers left the Boeing Company with four payroll systems, multiple HR organisations and three internal benefits systems. Keith Rodgers reports on massive project to harmonise the company’s …
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I have been working in a City HR department for three years, first as an administrator in a generalist role, then in the training department, before being promoted to a …
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I have worked in HR for two years. As I have mainly dealt with recruitment in that time, I want a career as a resourcing specialist. I was recently promoted …
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Leading US business gurus such as John Sullivan and Tom Peters argue that the HR traditionalist faces extinction. How can white-collar professionals convince organisations of their worth? One idea is to take on ‘hero status’
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A radical proposal to allow 50,000 skilled foreign workers from outside the EU to enter Germany every year has been put forward by a high-level independent commission in the country. …
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Maureen Macnamara joins The Law Society Budding authoress Maureen Macnamara believes she has a great idea for a book. "I was thinking of writing a book relating to children about …
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Increasing numbers of staff in the retail sector are victims of violence, according to a recent survey by the British Retail Consortium. The eighth annual Retail Crime Survey shows that …
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Fears of rising unemployment in the financial services sector have been allayed by a boost in business confidence. A joint survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the CBI shows that confidence among …
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Improved employee and customer satisfaction has helped healthcare provider Bupa boost its profits significantly it was claimed at the company’s AGM. Barry Dyer, director of organisational development at Bupa, thought …
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Department store chain House of Fraser is spending £100,000 rolling out an e-learning function across its 50 branches by the end of August. The move follows a successful trial at …
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Former Pentland Group HR director Chris Matchan on the qualities that make Cadbury Schweppes director Chris Bones his career confidant