Being able to actively contribute to discussions on business matters, offer insights, and provide valuable perspectives beyond just people-related issues, enhances your influence…
Read More…beyond providing safe and pleasant work conditions and fair payment for work done, the employer should have no further involvement with the private lives of their employees.
Read MoreSharing your experiences with others can also provide perspective and help you determine the best course of action.
Read MoreToo often there is a limited pool of qualified, high performance HR professionals available in the job market. However roles being hired for typically have a long and frequently unrealistic “wish list” of blended skills
Read MorePlease don't give stock standard answers to my questions. It's so ho-hum when you tell me that the company is committed to professional development, diversity, work/life balance and has great promotional prospects.
Read MorePlease don't oversell your experience. I can spot B.S. a mile off, and I will rate you more for your honesty if you haven't done everything we need - instead assure me of your plans to learn and fill the experience gaps.
Read MoreManaging day to day service delivery in addition to the enormous workload burden of pandemic crisis management was simply exhausting
Read MorePoor handling of redundancies and layoffs are classic examples of how HR can instantly be labelled as unfeeling, “two faced”, disrespectful and callous.
Read More....despite everyone’s claims of commercial savvy, we still see 2 very different camps of HR job seekers. Those who think and talk purely like HR practitioners, and those who think and talk like business leaders who just happen to have the HR specialism in their "toolkit".
Read MoreThe interim contract and consultant market is becoming an increasingly popular route for many senior-level professionals who have achieved most or all of their professional milestones, and seek a new change of direction in their career.
Read MoreHR has an unrivalled view across the organisation and regularly deals with serious and complex issues that have an impact at all levels. Decisions about people are fundamental to the success and wellbeing of an organisation but, despite these qualities, it is usually the accountant, lawyer, salesman, or operations person who lands the top job.
Read MoreCue a plethora of posts across social media channels and company websites showing support and pledging activism within that week. But immediately after that, the corporate posting focus shifted away to other topics.
Read More..recruiter reputations haven’t always the best for communications consistency - job seekers talk of getting lots of love from recruiters when they’re in a hiring process, and getting silence from their agencies or TA specialists otherwise.
Read MorePerhaps coincidentally, we’ve seen an increasing trend for internal Talent Acquisition teams moving towards better addressing both “candidate experience” and “employer of choice” branding through their own advertising channels, with alignment to their company’s broader marketing strategies
Read MoreFor sure, whilst not considered a mental illness, employee burnout should be treated as mental health issue - if allowed to go unchecked and unsupported, burnout can have far reaching consequences.
Read More“if you could find us a tall, slim, blonde woman for some office eye candy that’d be great”.
Read MoreIf you’re no longer having those face to face meetings, no longer wangling an invite to ad hoc discussions and no longer experiencing those corridor or canteen or “water cooler” moments, how do you get yourself noticed ?
Read MoreI’m not a fan of affirmative action for hiring to enable workforce equality, because that form of positive discrimination just creates a different type of inequality and resentment.
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