Recruitment & retention
Recruitment: how overconfidence can suppress social mobility
Confidence may be a welcome attribute in a job applicant but overconfidence, suggests new research, can drive inequalities, stifle social...
Young people critical of lack of diversity and social mobility
Two-thirds of young people feel they have to conceal or change who they really are in order to make a good impression and find a job at many businesses.
Why ‘talent’ is no longer a useful term for business
As the requirements for future leaders change, is it time to do away with the concept of focusing only on a select few?
More full-time judges needed to handle tribunal delays
Too few full-time judges are available to handle the backlog of employment tribunal cases, which has resulted in continuing delays...
Labour pledges £10 an hour minimum for all ages
Labour will scrap the “youth rate” minimum wage and ensure staff of all ages are paid at least £10 an...
Two in five employers train existing staff to fill jobs
Forty-three per cent of employers are upskilling existing staff to plug hard-to-fill vacancies and a similar proportion (41%) say it has become more difficult to recruit in the past year.
How to navigate managers regime, GDPR and criminal records checks
How financial firms need to navigate the major data privacy implications of criminal records checks made necessary by the Senior Managers and Certification Regime
How should employers support returning mothers’ mental health?
Returning to work after maternity leave can be a stressful time for a new mother and managers should be alive...
Enhance leave policies to keep carers in work, employers urged
The chief executive of a major energy supplier is urging employers to do more to retain the almost 5 million...
No EU settlement scheme applications rejected in initial phase
The Home Office has announced that more than 600,000 EU citizens had applied to stay in the UK in the...
How chatbots improved Yodel’s candidate experience
Introducing chatbots for recruitment has helped slash candidate drop-out rates and average time to hire at delivery firm Yodel. How has this been achieved?
Overeducation blights careers across UK
New data released by the Office of National Statistics has shown that almost a third of graduates have more education than is required for the jobs they are doing.
Women postgraduates earn less than men with first degrees
Women with master’s degrees in England earn less than their male peers who only have bachelor’s degrees, according to the latest data on graduate earnings...
‘Asylum migrants’ earn less than UK-born workers
People that come to the UK as “asylum migrants” are more likely to be unemployed, earn less and work fewer...
NHS consultants ‘better off’ working part-time
Senior doctors in the NHS are better off working part-time under new pension rules, the British Medical Association has warned....
