Careers in HR

HR professionals at troubled telecommunications support firm Openreach have been praised as the company claimed it had put its problems...

The BBC has appointed Mike Gooddie as its employee relations and people strategy director. 
He will be the corporation’s chief negotiator...

Fewer than one in 10 HR professionals believe the public sector has the right image to attract employees, according to...

Beverley Shears has joined the Department for Constitutional Affairs as director of HR. She will focus on helping deliver the...

Where were you working before, and what were your duties?
I was head of diversity at the Land Registry.
What...

Companies could save up to 80% of their HR costs by centralising the department – possibly offshore and almost certainly...

Angie Risley is stepping down from her role as HR director of Whitbread.Risley is joining Lloyds TSB in May as...

British Airways’   director for people, Neil Robertson, is to leave the airline at the end of the month after 30...

Mike Watts has joined the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development as director of professional development. 
He joins from the Cabinet Office where,...

Where were you working before, and what were your duties? I managed corporate HR at foods company RHM. What qualifications...

Ian Russell has been appointed as the non-executive chairman of Remploy, which provides employment opportunities for disabled people. Remploy is...

What is your new role?Assistant director of the Horniman Museum.Where were you working before and what were your duties?I was...

I love my job, but I’ve just been approached to go on secondment with another department. On paper it’s a...

Nigel Farmer, Nick Wyatt, Gary Argent and Nikki Williams

From positive discrimination to HR's image problem, Mike Berry takes a look back at some of the important news stories that made the headlines in Personnel Today during the past 12 months.