The HR profession

I am a senior HR business partner in a global IT services business, and have recently conducted a review of our HR recruitment suppliers.

The aftermath of natural disasters, such as the recent earthquake in Java, demonstrates the huge logistical constraints faced by humanitarian aid workers co-ordinating a response.

The world's oldest and largest animal welfare charity has created a new director of HR role to increase its focus on employees

Kellie Rixon explains how she overcame her frustration at training and operational mismatches when she moved into L&D, and why originality is important to training success

Guess who?...is the most powerful figure in HR? With employment policies and practices changing all the time, there’s plenty of opportunity for HR to prove its worth in business, government and even on the global stage. So who are the new faces and who’s out of the spotlight? Personnel Today counts down the top 40 power players for 2006. Compiled by Scott Beagrie and Sue Weekes.

I am a senior associate with a global executive search firm looking to move into an in-house recruiting/resourcing/talent management role

Juliet Amos has become HR director at the University of Teesside. Amos was previously head of employment services at the...

HR director with the Logic Group

Change is the key theme in this year’s impressive cast of HR’s Top 40 Power Players (revealed in all its...

Professor Dame Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians, was named as the UK’s first national director for...

Cynthia Atwell, one of the leading lights in occupational health nursing, has had her contribution recognised by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM), which made her an honorary fellow in May

Geraldine Brammer, OH manager, Surrey Fire and Rescue

Director of HR and OD, Heart of England NHS Foundation Hospital Trust

Buddy schemes - where new recruits are provided with an informal mentor - are an increasingly common feature of the recruitment and induction process

Sara Williams and Joe Mann