The HR profession

Profiles of the shortlisted teams in the 2006 Personnel Today Awards start next week, but first...

As a broadly experienced training consultant for the past 25 years, I have developed my career on a foundation of practical, hands-on experience.

You say in your Top 40 Power Players feature (Personnel Today, 13 June) that I’ve had a ‘quietish year’.
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Tough trading conditions have presented hospitality giant Whitbread with some big people management challenges. Mike Berry talks to chief executive Alan Parker.

How to get into it… An HR manager usually starts out as an HR officer or adviser, and then gains...

International property development and fund management group Grosvenor has appointed Sylvia Hamilton to the newly created post of group HR...

by Emma Hughes, director of goup HR, Specsavers

Director of people and organisation capability, Microsoft (EMEA)

I have recently been informed that our company will be making a number of redundancies, and the HR department itself could be under threat. I am in a difficult position where I need to keep up morale, but I am also considering looking for work elsewhere. What is the best way to keep my options open?

CEOs may doubt the value of the service, but that has not stopped HR breaking into the big league in terms of salaries. By Mike Berry and Daniel Thomas

Yvonne Skingle has joined Peterborough City Council as head of HR. She is currently the national policy lead on e-HR/efficiency...

I graduated from university a couple of years ago with a BA in HR Management, gaining a 2:1. I’m really...

What is your new role?HR director at First ScotRail.Where were you working before and what were your duties?I was with...

The latest Recruitment Confidence Index from the Cranfield School of Management once again revealed that skills shortages are at their...