Letters

As a company that participates in the Noras online recruitment survey, I read with interest your news story reporting the 2006 findings (Personnel Today, 7 March). However, I felt that an important trend from the survey was not highlighted

Cutting training budgets will have an obvious impact on skills ('US delight as EU firms slash training budgets', Personnel Today, 21 March)

Your feature on internal communication and its place in an organisation ('Speaking to the People', Personnel Today, 14 March) does a disservice to the many HR people who are responsible for, and passionate about, this critical business function

I read with interest your report on the Women and Work Commission's recommendations for how to close the gender pay gap (Personnel Today, 7 March)

The photo and caption in your article on 'elderly Londoners' (Personnel Today, 7 March) are misleading

Your front-page article 'Academics slam 'ageist' Sunday Times top firm list' and opinion page struck an immediate chord with me (Personnel Today, 7 March)

How do you define 'fun' for an older workforce?

Funnily enough, I noticed exactly the same thing in the Sunday Times list (Personnel Today, 7 March)

Congratulations to Helen Scott for obtaining her post at Sodexho

I wasn't surprised to see that Cranfield and Personnel Today research shows that UK employers are having recruitment difficulties due to skills shortages

I wasn't surprised to read that senior executives rate HR as the worst of all business functions, particularly having also read that 67% of Personnel Today readers would not take an HR job at Gate Gourmet

The future of HR depends entirely on its metamorphosis into a strategic business function

Am I the only one to think that The Apprentice – the BBC's reality show in which 14 candidates slug it out for a six-figure salary job with Sir Alan Sugar – comes over as a graduate milk round assessment centre?

It seems that we have another call for HR to justify its existence. Unloved maybe, but does that translate to unwanted?

While I thoroughly agree with the general thrust of the argument contained in your front-page news story about the England football manager (Personnel Today, 21 February), it did make me wonder whether the author, or indeed Michael Ball quoted in the article, had taken into account that there is an unequivocal requirement for all of the players in the England team to be English