Careers in HR

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.

CIPD qualifications will be transformed over the coming year to offer HR staff a greater understanding of what drives performance...

Jackie Lanham has joined the Co-operative Group as director of resourcing and development. She will focus on leadership resourcing and...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?Before joining Univar, I engineered the successful reorganisation of the structure...

As the number of people out of work soars closer to two million, the Department for Work and Pensions and...

A serious recruitment blunder involving a senior HR chief has sparked a row between two major high-street retailers, Personnel Today...

Asda’s people director David Smith has insisted he is proud of his legacy ahead of his departure at the end...

Rachel Burlton found leadership development such a powerful force that she headed to London to embrace it. She's since discovered succession planning.
Graduates and final-year students still expect more than a bowl of muesli from employers. And training is at the top of their wish list, according to a poll by recruiter TMP Worldwide .

Chemical distribution giant Univar has appointed Detlef Prangenberg as HR director for Europe.Prangenberg, a former General Electric Healthcare HR professional,...

Guy Pink, HR director, Addaction, a drugs and alcohol charityHow did you get to where you are now?Hard work, seizing...

Former CIPD assistant director-general Duncan Brown is to join the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) next month.Brown joins as director...

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has hired two senior HR professionals from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).The...

BBC HR chief Stephen Kelly is leaving the corporation to join Logica in a shock move.Kelly will join the IT services company...