The HR profession

Personnel Today was crowned HR Publication of the Year at last night’s Watson Wyatt Awards for Excellence in HR Journalism....

The BBC has hired a new HR chief to replace Stephen Kelly.Lucy Adams, the current HR director at law firm...

Infrastructure engineering consultancy firm Amey has appointed Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth group HR director. Hughes-D’Aeth joins from global IT firm Steria, where...

Sue Butcher has been appointed HR director at Remploy, having been interim HR director there since August 2008. Butcher will...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?I was managing director of CFE, a national independent research and...

All of my mentors have been unofficial – just senior people that I have worked with.My first was when I joined...

Personnel Today is looking for opinionated junior HR professionals to be part of its new editorial advisory board.Do you feel...

The great British workforce tends to under-use its HR departments. Most of us only go to them when we have...

Michael Davis has joined the UK Commission for Employment and Skills as director of strategy and performance. Davis was previously...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?I was at DTZ as head of HR for Europe Middle...

HR job vacancies rose for the first time in seven months in February, latest statistics have revealed.The February 2009 Monster...

It’s no surprise that Gill Heighington can’t abide sloppy customer service – she encourages tourism organisations to train staff in how to put...

The CIPD has said it would not contact HR managers working in construction firms named by the Information Commissioner’s Office...

Wesleyan Assurance Society has appointed Clive Bridge to the new role of HR director. He joins from Toyota Motor Manufacturing,...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?
I was at Aviva as director of learning and development....