The HR profession

Rachael Henderson has joined building services organisation Norland Managed Services as HR director. She joins from facilities management service provider...

Sarah Landry has made the switch from an energy supplier to the telecoms industry

Tight market makes for tough recruitment times

Latest HR appointments around the UK

This award is for an individual HR director who can demonstrate outstanding leadership. The judge is looking for evidence that...

Edwina Currie, writer, broadcaster and former politician, is the guest speaker at the forthcoming HR Directors Club event to be...

HR is the most complex and interesting of all managerial disciplines - that's why it goes in for bouts of introspection

HR-related and specific courses: MA Human Resource Management (full-time over one year). The Durham MBA core programme includes ‘Managing People’...

Mike Cutt, the outgoing HR director at B&Q, has said he is leaving a business "more true to its values and more focused on its customers" after five years in the job

Jacqui Macdonald has joined global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca as HR business partner. She joins from GlaxoSmithKline where she was UK...

Recruiting a new chief executive is always a tough task. But, with the help of a business psychologist firm, the Learning and Skills Council's HR team made the right decision. Alex Blyth reports

Dominic Mellonie, Lynette Brown, Paul Hepworth and Veronica Wheatley are on the move

Award profile: This category rewards employer achievement in attracting and retaining graduates. It recognises best practice where employers have shown innovation in recruiting and managing degree-level qualified individuals in line with organisational goals. The judge also looked for evidence of the contribution graduates make to the whole organisation. Graduate Prospects has been bringing graduates and recruiters together for more than 30 years. Its award-winning website attracts in excess of 465,000 users each month and it publishes the Prospects Directory.

Outgoing B&Q HR director, Mike Cutt, said he was leaving a business “more true to its values and more focused on its customers” after five years in the job.

Margaret Kubicek assesses the enduring appeal of Ken Blanchard, who wrote The One-Minute Manager more than two decades ago