Businesses want a complete rethink so that training is geared to business needs.
Recruitment & retention
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Refugees and other disadvantaged groups will be explicitly recognised within Jobcentre Plus' jobs target for the first time under new government plans unveiled today
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HR professionals who are graduates of the University of Bath have formed an alumni group to network with each other and benefit from the university's research in people management
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High-flying private sector graduates are being encouraged to go back to their secondary schools as volunteer teachers, under a government-backed scheme loosely based on the concept of the Territorial Army
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The public sector continued to employ by far the greatest proportion of interim managers last year, according to the largest annual study of the market, despite nearly halving the number it uses
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Many higher education institutions are unable to analyse recruitment and retention trends because of poor HR management information processes, researchers have warned
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Staff retention and talent management will be the top HR issues facing UK businesses for the rest of 2006, according to research.
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A Scottish council is looking to recruit social workers from Canada, South Africa and Australia to fill a widening skills gap in the Highlands.
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Historically, people moved south in search of higher wages and a better quality of life. But is the grass still greener in the South?
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The French government has indicated that it will not back down over its controversial youth labour law, despite union threats of a general strike.
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Representatives of the UK's ethnic restaurant sector have attacked the new migration system for non-European Union (EU) workers as unfair.
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Ten major investment banks have joined forces to encourage students and graduates with disabilities to consider a career in the financial sector
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The public sector continued to employ by far the greatest proportion of interim managers last year, according to new research.
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Men fail to convince bosses of business benefits of flexibility.
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Many Eastern European immigrants in the UK are harder working, more reliable and motivated than their British counterparts, according to a Home Office report