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Companies need to recruit more staff with language skills in order to set up foreign language versions of their web sites, a multilingual project management company has warned.Image Partnership says …
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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation is to run two one-day training courses in Belfast on telephone sales and interviewing techniques. They are aimed at those new to recruitment or who …
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Europe is seeing a “revenge of the giants” with the majority of blue-chip companies rapidly expanding e-commerce operations. A report by Andersen Consulting, eEurope 2000: Connecting the Dots, says, “Where …
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One in five employees claim they are extremely stressed at work, according to a study for the Health and Safety Executive.Slightly more (23 per cent) say they have experienced illness …
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Public relations companies are increasingly using a freelance workforce, a study has found.A survey by Leeds Metropolitan University says the advantages of employing freelancers include their flexibility and the fact …
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The level of staff pay awards is rising, according to the latest survey by Income Data Services.The survey shows that average pay awards agreed by companies from July onwards have …
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With the pressure to succeed and a thriving ‘presenteeism’ culture, it’s no wonder mental health problems are linked to overwork. But experts predict a nightmare ahead for HR as the …
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Dreams come true in California’s Silicon Valley, where 60 new millionaires are created every day. Paul Simpson asks whether the work models there represent the futureSilicon Valley is a crystal …
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Personnel Today’s monthly series reveals how managers tackle business problems and enhance performance. In this issue, Chris Holroyde, learning and development manager at BASF, explains how career development workshops can …
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The ‘them and us’ attitude towards technology personnel will soon be obsolete – we’ll all be in ITHR managers must create the right environments for IT departments to flourish if …
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Dotcom HR professionals concerned about the recent bad press given to on-line companies can take comfort from the first complete set of annual data on Internet usage in the UK. …
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The Social Science Information Gateway is one of those web sites that makes you feel eternally grateful to the people behind it because of the sheer number of relevant links, …
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Job-seekers who sign up to e-recruitment Solutions will be given a 10 per cent discount on CTEC IT courses from IT training company Informatics. "The IT skills shortage has become …
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Legislation conflicts over employers’ rights to monitor employees’ e-mails, phone calls and use of the Internet. In an attempt to catch up with the evolving world of electronic communications, the …
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Patefield v Belfast City Council, IDS Brief 670, Court of Appeal Northern IrelandPatefield, an agency contract worker, was placed with the council, "the principal", in 1995. In September 1997 she …