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2010-09-02 15:26 - 104 reads

Employers across both the public and private sector fear that they are no longer able to offer the pay and benefits packages required to attract and retain key skills, an HR body has warned.

Training not supporting business objectives

2010-09-02 15:10 - 86 reads

While a huge 86% of organisations have introduced coaching or mentoring programmes, nearly two thirds fail to directly support corporate objectives but focus instead on developing individual talents.

'Equal pay' firms target 'unenforceable' pay secrecy clauses

2010-09-01 16:00 - 245 reads

Private sector employers should brace themselves for a wave of mass discrimination lawsuits following the abolition of a pay secrecy clause in the Equality Act.

NEST support high at 75% but teething problems expected

2010-09-01 15:10 - 163 reads

Although less than half of employers have currently budgeted for introducing pension auto-enrolment, just over two out of five expect to level down t...

2/3 public sector 'would take pay cut'

2010-09-01 14:37 - 243 reads - 1 comment

With unemployment predicted to breach 10% outside of London and the South of England, nearly two thirds of public sector workers would now be prepared to take pay cuts to save their jobs.

Stress and sackings mean employees should beware of the email

2010-09-01 10:54 - 438 reads

Emails are more dangerous than you might think with more than half experiencing increased stress levels as a result of checking them on holiday.

Employing graduates: Easy as 1,2,3?

2010-08-31 09:09 - 521 reads - 1 comment

With a continuing high level of unemployment among graduates, Poppy Ring asks: are universities adequately equipping students with the transferable skills required for the workplace?

The importance of networking for HR

2010-08-31 09:00 - 678 reads

Judith Germain explains why it's just as important for the HR function to network as it is for any other department.

Getting staff to pull in the same direction for the good of the organisation

2010-08-31 09:00 - 337 reads

Shirley Barnes explores how to achieve this to reach the business' goals.

Radical immigration cap will mean major skills problems

2010-08-27 16:59 - 367 reads - 1 comment

Because training workers to plug the UK skills gap is a lengthy task, the abrupt introduction of a “radical” immigration cap would generate major skills problems for employers and lead to more offshoring.

Hey good-lookin' - want a job?

2010-08-27 16:50 - 610 reads

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Just over two thirds of employers would be more inclined to hire good-looking candidates, with a scary 9% admitting that they had in the past recruited someone purely because of their appearance.

The new retirement age – implications for employers and employees

2010-08-26 09:56 - 1024 reads

Your guide to the new retirement age from Ian Bird, principal partner at Foster Denovo.

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September: Talent management

This month is all about talent. We'll be investigating unusual as well as the more usual talent pools, from Gen Y to older employees and also exploring how the public sector is faring with the expecting talent exodus. After the recession, has the 'War for Talent' begun again in earnest? And should we even call it a 'war', or is that a completely innapropriate term?

On the more basic side, how do you find talent? How do you know when someone's got talent? And how far would you go to keep it?

I hope to provoke some discussion and hear from you on these challenging and fascinating subjects.

If you have any examples of great or bad talent management do let me know by emailing editor@hrzone.co.uk or feel free to contact me on Twitter @hrzone if you want to get in touch.

With warm wishes,

Charlie Duff, Editor

HR in a recession

Leadership is like a teabag - you only know how good it is when it’s in hot water.

David Fairhurst, senior vice president, chief people officer, McDonald’s