The HR profession

Liz Cook is now heading electronics company Sega Europe’s personnel team as its HR director. Cook was previously at Kingston...

Where were you working before and what were your duties?I had an HR consulting practice which assisted clients with cultural...

Last year, Alan Thomas organised 342 training interventions. He talks about how he got into training, his training hero and what one piece of legislation he'd like to see enacted.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has insisted that HR is not full of ‘miserable gits’ following a...

Steve Simpson recently joined the Student Loans Company as head of HR. He was previously employed at BAE Systems Naval...

Where were you working before and what were your duties?I was the HR director for EMEA at Progress Software, leading...

If someone is looking for generalist experience (Personnel Today, 27 March), I would suggest some voluntary work with small businesses...

Entrants to this category will demonstrate how they use reward and recognition in a strategic way, aligned to their organisational...

The elite ‘super HR professionals’ who sit on the boards of big private sector organisations are earning an average base...

Geoff Armstrong is to retire as director general of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in June 2008.By...

Gillian Alford has joined Royal Mail as head of industrial relations for the letters business.Alford has been the BBC’s head...

HR professionals in the Royal Navy have been rebranded ‘personnel logisticians’ from ‘writers’ in a bid to boost recruitment.
The...

HR consultancy Hewitt Associates has opened its first office in Russia.

The new Moscow office is to focus on HR consulting...

Personnel Today and Henley Management College have awarded Rachel Oliver, a partner at HR consultancy People Mechanics, an £18,000 bursary...

With the entries whittled down to half a dozen, the Henley team of judges felt that one applicant stood out.