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A Must Before You Recruit - Click To Read Article
Building an ideal candidate profile is so often missed by managers when they start to consider recruitment and the process or structure it will take. They jump straight into the search and interview phases with little thought of what their ideal candidate profile would look like. If you do not know what you are looking for, how do you know when you have found it?

Will The 48 Hour Opt Out Rule Remain In The UK - Click To Read Article
The UK is claimed to be the only country in the EU to extensively utilise the 48 hour voluntary agreement rule where by employees can opt out. Other EU countries feel that having this rule allows the UK an unfair economic advantage?

TIME FOR BUDGETS BUT NO TIME FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT! - Click To Read Article
Make your performance management system work for you, or if you are still without one, implement one urgently. This means making it the driving force of your improvement plan for 2010. If you are like so many other businesses out there where by you have reduced your headcount but require more out of each member of the team now, follow this simple plan.

Alternatives to redundancies have benefits - Click To Read Article
The overall cost with redundancies is far more than just the initial redundancy pay an employee receives. You will need to add costs for the recruitment when you require staff again and the cost of training new recruits to have them reach the development stage your redundant staff were at prior to being made redundant. How do you place a cost on this? Then there are the negatives that come from any business making redundancies which includes low morale within the workforce which inevitably reduces production, performance and service. Good quality staff can leave for alternative employment due to the uncertainty which may happen after you have reduced to the number of staff you felt appropriate as they have been offered employment from interviews taken during the redundancy process. What is the cost of this?

Employment References Are So Important - Click To Read Article
Employment references are as important to the recruitment process now as they have always been, if not more so. The problem being they are now at times more difficult to receive than they were a few years ago.

How to manage your way through an Economic Downturn - Click To Read Article
Challenging economic downturns expose floors in most businesses and organisations which will include some of your people, and in turn will have an adverse effect on the overall performance of the company. Staff can become despondent, de-motivated and unsure of their future which will eventually affect customer service, quality, efficiencies and production. To be successful you will need to manage your people better than ever before, retain your top performers and where a vacancy exists utilise only the most robust recruitment processes to identify a candidate that can bring talent and where possible portable assets with them.

How can HR assist in the current market conditions? - Click To Read Article
Your HR department now needs to readdress it’s priorities and focus on building a sustainable plan to assist the business and its people through such difficult market conditions without adding costs and of course where ever possible reducing costs. A simple 5 point plan such as this will help.

Improving Morale After Redundancies - Click To Read Article
When the actual redundancy process is complete and the unfortunate employees are made redundant there remains the issue of low morale that inevitably continues for some time. Without close monitoring this can become a very serious issue to any business. Once the reduction in employees has taken place the staff that remain will probably be expected to achieve more and may have additional responsibilities placed on them. How do you get the best from your staff now that they feel uncertain about their future and how do you improve morale? There are five key areas that need to be considered and worked with carefully on an ongoing basis.

Reviewing Your CV - Click To Read Article
Your CV has never been more important with today’s current job market. Employers are receiving enormous amounts of speculative CV’s so when yours lands on the desk of a decision maker it will need to stand out just to get you to the interview stages. Employers will make very quick decisions from the first impression your CV makes, the only objective of your CV is to get it noticed and gain an interview.





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