Careers in HR

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?I spent more than 13 years in a variety of HR-related...

Whitehall HR job losses are just the start of a renewed flurry of cutbacks due across the Civil Service and...

The BBC has hired a new HR chief to replace Stephen Kelly.Lucy Adams, the current HR director at law firm...

Infrastructure engineering consultancy firm Amey has appointed Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth group HR director. Hughes-D’Aeth joins from global IT firm Steria, where...

Sue Butcher has been appointed HR director at Remploy, having been interim HR director there since August 2008. Butcher will...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?I was managing director of CFE, a national independent research and...

Personnel Today is looking for opinionated junior HR professionals to be part of its new editorial advisory board.Do you feel...

The great British workforce tends to under-use its HR departments. Most of us only go to them when we have...

HR job vacancies rose for the first time in seven months in February, latest statistics have revealed.The February 2009 Monster...

No job is immune from the economic storm, but HR professionals looking to make their next career move may find that some sectors offer sunnier prospects than others. Tara Craig reports on the safest places to work in HR.

The CIPD has admitted junior HR members will become “disillusioned” by the profession if the institute does not do more...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?I was divisional registrar on the John Lewis management board. I...

Janet Birch has joined the Ministry of Justice as head of resourcing. She joins from the London Development Agency, where...

HR has gone through a number of image overhauls over the years, but how much has it really changed? Five HR professionals who started out in each decade from the 1960s to the Noughties reveal how it was for them.

Debt collection is a booming industry in this recession-gripped economy, but HR has its work cut out improving the brutal image of the sector, recruiting the right people and training staff to comply with government calls for a more compassionate approach to debtors.