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A heightened emphasis on building financial services Eames Consulting Group’s contracting business and strengthening the firm’s systems and processes will be two key areas of focus for Eames chief executive Guy Day as he takes on his new responsibilities.
Claims of a ‘war for talent’ mask the fact that recruiters and employers too often don’t recognise talent when they see it, suggests a leading in-house recruiter in the construction and support services industries.
The Zika virus received global attention regarding its prevalence in South America, as a result of media coverage from the Rio Olympic Games in Brazil.
Sixteen months into PageGroup’s formalisation of support for its LGBT employees, the Pride@Page network has 116 members including LGBT staff and ‘allies’, says the company’s associate director for diversity & inclusion in the UK.
Recruiters should do more to push the idea of job shares to clients to tackle the shortage of flexible work for women returning to the labour market after having a child.
Driving and effecting change is a key theme for deciding who are the top in-house resourcing influencers this year. Scott Beagrie introduces 2016’s list
Insurance experts say the initial impact of a cyber attack is distressing but the ensuing aftershocks can be catastrophic, reports Colin Cottell
Many firms are pushing to increase their leadership diversity without addressing core cultural issues, which meant they didn’t have diverse leadership in the first place. Or as one senior female leader put it when we discussed this: “The same problems persist – they are simply hiring men with boobs!”
This in itself, and the positive action around increasing diversity in leadership, is causing some fundamental issues that, ironically, make it even harder today to ensure a diverse and stable leadership:
With the growing pains of the start-up and momentum phases over and the business more than six years old and with 20+ staff, the primary challenge now facing your company is to create capital value.