The HR profession

More than 1,200 of HR’s finest gathered last night for the prestigious Personnel Today Awards 2006 at the Grosvenor House...

Mystery surrounds the sudden, unexplained departure of Prison Service HR director Gareth Hadley last week.
Hadley resigned last Monday (13...

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has insisted the threat to HR jobs from outsourcing is minimal, despite...

With its traditional members all about to lose their jobs to India, and the new wave of HR executives disillusioned...

Q I have just graduated from university with a degree in HR management, but I am having trouble getting my...

If you want to get ahead in HR, it helps if your name is Michael or Susan. Exclusive research from...

Join in the latest discussions online at www.personneltoday.com. Here are some edited highlights from a recent forum on the CIPD fellowship row.

The debate around HR being on the board has raged for some time, but I think it is high time...

What happens when HR practitioners abuse their position, and end up abusing the very people they are meant to be...

Our front-page story about the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development fellowship and how outside-HR experience is taken into account (Personnel Today, 31 October) ruffled a few feathers. Here's a selection of the responses from the HR profession.

What is your new role? Assistant chief executive – organisation/development and communication at Sheffield City Council. Where were you working...

Francois Volpi and professor David Melville

While studying at university, Mobolaji Owoade decided a career as a presenter might be just the ticket. But it was...

Rowing across the Atlantic pushed Olympic gold medal-winning rower James Cracknell to draw on reserves of mental strength he never...

The HR director of the Prison Service, Gareth Hadley, resigned this week – and cleared his desk the same day....