Top tips when selecting a financial education provider
There is recognition that individuals don’t always get taught how to be good with money or how to plan well for retirement. Life can be unpredictable, and your employees may be faced with financial decisions outside of their skillset. Providing career long financial education can benefit everyone in your business. That said, employers don’t get taught how […]
Visualising success in the workplace
Work is all about goals, milestones and projects being completed on time and within budget. Many times, some of these tasks can be daunting to people, such as giving an important presentation, a major client meeting or hitting your sales target. What we don’t know is that the mind can help us reach these goals […]
GUEST BLOG: The 5 biggest challenges when hiring tech talent
It’s one of the fastest-growing sectors in the business environment, but the ever-advancing nature of the tech world – coupled with a widely-reported skills shortage in this often-complex arena – can make hiring tech talent extremely tough! Here, Rachel McElroy (pictured), director at cloud resourcing specialist Cranford Group, shares 5 of the biggest challenges and – […]
Five myths about apprenticeships busted
Grant Thornton’s Talent Solutions Director, David Hare takes the opportunity to dispel some myths on the Apprenticeship Levy and encourage everyone to embrace apprenticeships as part of a wider talent strategy… We have passed the two-year anniversary of the Apprenticeship Levy and I still meet clients who haven’t embraced the opportunity. I hear “it’s all […]
GUEST BLOG: Workplace change management – The importance of taking your people with you
Effective change management is necessary for businesses to survive and thrive so it’s important to overcome the obstacles that change can present as quickly as possible. Ann Clark, Managing Director of Claremont has shared her thoughts on the topic… Workplace change can be one of the most difficult changes to manage, as revisions to working practices, […]
GUEST BLOG: ‘Warts and all’ is the best form of recruitment
By Gary Berney, Marketing Manager, HireUp You’re trying to attract the best talent to your company, so you make sure you put your best foot forward, talking about the benefits of working for your company, the cool working environment, the central location, etc, etc. They are all worth mentioning but a lot of candidates will […]
The dos and don’ts of social media background checks
Steve Smith, Managing Director (EMEA), Sterling Talent Solutions As the rapid rise of social media usage continues, talent acquisition teams are now more likely than ever to search these channels for information on potential candidates as a first port of call when making hiring decisions. With 45 million social media users in the UK alone […]
GUEST BLOG: Filling the talent ‘black hole’
By Gary Berney, Marketing Manager, HireUp Astronomers may have photographed a black hole for the first time recently, but there’s been a black hole in talent acquisition for years! The images of the black hole provided by the Event Horizon Telescope imaging project have been truly amazing. It’s brought discussions around all aspects of black […]
GUEST BLOG: Investing in training is central to your company’s development
Coorpacademy’s Jean-Marc Tassetto (pictured) examines how a new generation of training analytics tools can unite Learning & Development (L&D) and business… With the arrival of AI (artificial intelligence), robots and automation, workers’ skills will need to change as companies re-think the way they are organised, putting a major emphasis on L&D in the workplace to […]
Emotion drives connection: Why bringing emotion back to business is critical
We’re hard-wired to connect. We’re born and pre-programmed to form attachments that we need to survive. So when we don’t connect, it hurts. Here is some factual data. When we don’t connect the area that lights up in the brain when we experience physical pain – the anterior cingulate – is the exact same area that […]
