HR has gone through a number of image overhauls over the years, but how much has it really changed? Five HR professionals who started out in each decade from the 1960s to the Noughties reveal how it was for them.
The HR profession
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Debt collection is a booming industry in this recession-gripped economy, but HR has its work cut out improving the brutal image of the sector, recruiting the right people and training staff to comply with government calls for a more compassionate approach to debtors.
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CIPD qualifications will be transformed over the coming year to offer HR staff a greater understanding of what drives performance...
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Jackie Lanham has joined the Co-operative Group as director of resourcing and development. She will focus on leadership resourcing and...
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Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?Before joining Univar, I engineered the successful reorganisation of the structure...
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I run a people-centric business, so HR is vital to what we do. Our HR director sits on the executive...
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As the number of people out of work soars closer to two million, the Department for Work and Pensions and...
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Nigel Ross works on a very restricted budget, organising and delivering training for staff and volunteers at charity the Samaritans.What...
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HR news and analysis including:
Pilots union BALPA criticises BMI after pay was taken back from employees’ account and then...
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GSK Biologicals has appointed Luc Vanden Broeck vice-president of HR. He will be based at the company’s headquarters in Belgium,...
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Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?
Before joining the BBC in 1995, I was working for... -
Detlef Prangenberg has joined chemical distribution giant Univar as HR director for Europe. He spent 12 years as an officer...
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Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?
I was head of HR for the Chartered Institute of... -
HR news and analysis including:
demonstrators protest over the use of foreign workers and failure of Gordon Brown to fulfill...
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A serious recruitment blunder involving a senior HR chief has sparked a row between two major high-street retailers, Personnel Today...