Employers should formulate a job description when recruiting to a new position. When recruiting to an existing position, the employer should review the job description to ensure that it is up to date.
The job description should set out accurately the duties and responsibilities of the post and should be used with a person specification to identify the most suitable candidate.
A huge training project is necessary to prepare central government line managers to do their jobs with a reduced budget,...
Director of HR and development, Health & Case Management (rehabilitation case management and employment services)
Where were you working before and what were your duties?
I was regional HR manager at Burton, part of the...
McDonald’s is stepping up its campaign to change the dictionary definition of ‘McJob‘. Dictionaries currently describe McJob as “an unstimulating,...
More than half of British workers are still searching for their perfect job, research has found. A survey conducted by...
‘Bogus self-employment’ in the construction industry is leading to huge skills shortages and increasing demand for migrant labour, a union...
Budding Olympic contractors without a clear equality and diversity strategy need not apply to take part in the 2012 Games....
BA and unions agree new work practices for cabin crew working out of Gatwick
Hospital trust to diversify nursing role in bid to cut debt.
The increasing prevalence of obscure job titles is well documented, but new research has highlighted the astonishing breadth of terms used to describe seemingly identical staff roles.
Employers would have to show the combined value of salary and pension benefits in job advertisements, under a proposed new law.
The points raised in your feature on ‘uptitling’ are all too familiar (‘What’s in a name?’, Personnel Today, 1 November)....
Guru loves his job. He gets to wax lyrical about the state of the nation (and other people's nations to boot) on a weekly basis
With reference to your 'Rising Stars' column on Jo Gibson at the London Marriott
Job titles are becoming more creative, but why? Virginia Matthews investigates.
