In her new book, ‘Embracing Progress’, Sophie Wade enthusiastically supports adaptation and advancement, providing readers with practical guidance on how to prepare for the future of work. MARGINALIA spoke with Wade to discuss the key priorities that organisations and individuals should focus on to make meaningful progress.
Increasing levels of gender diversity, widening talent pipelines and improving the wider public image of the sector will help to tackle the ongoing skills shortages plaguing the construction industry, according to One Way.
Proactive recruitment strategies, creative benefits, and government programmes reduce the pressure on labour gaps for middle-market employers.
The rise of Industry 4.0 is driving demand for technology specialists in the supply chain, according to 1st Executive.
Digital consultancy CAB Studios claim that creativity is often overlooked by organisations seeking out the next generation of talent, and that creative education must be mandated and regarded more highly in order for the industry to continue to grow. This is according to their new white paper ‘Power to the Customer’, which explores how brands must evolve in the customer age, and what the industry needs to do to keep pace.
International digital recruitment company, Cogs Agency, has revealed their latest UK employer brand survey results showing the top 50 employers for UK digital professionals, and the reasons they want to go there.
The trend for checking reviews before making significant purchases is filtering into the world of work, according to new research released this week by global resourcing specialists BPS World.
A new guide published this week by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Prospect trade union, provides guidance to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) employers on how to attract a wider talent pool, including career returners.
Established companies are reassessing their conventional approaches to talent. Nele Klepper, Client Service Partner & Global Marketing Lead at a-connect, describes the drivers, benefits, and challenges of the open talent economy. She also provides MARGINALIA readers with advice on how organisations can best engage freelancers.
Gibbs Hybrid Workforce Solutions, an international technology and digital workforce management solutions business head-quartered in Surrey UK – has partnered with Barclays Citizenship team and Catch 22. All three parties have worked closely together over the past year to allow Gibbs to become the first partner to sign up to the Barclays Employability Programme – Connect with Work.
Global talent acquisition and management firm, Alexander Mann Solutions, has highlighted the need for multinational organisations to take a more collaborative approach to sourcing and retaining talent, in view of increasing HR costs.
74% of employees in Europe would consider career opportunities abroad. Germany, the UK and France top the list of countries where European employees would most like to work. Western and Northern Europe dominate the list, making up 14 of the top 20 choices. UK employees least interested in working abroad.
Financial services firms must look to hire on core competencies and skills, rather than sector experience, for change and transformation roles if they want to avoid falling behind the competition, according to Venquis.
Candidate feedback is being wasted as it is being collected after the event, greatly diminishing its value by the time the next tranche of applicants are being hired, according to new analysis from global talent acquisition and management firm, Alexander Mann Solutions.
Firms are losing top talent through failures in succession planning and the movement of talent within their businesses, according to an HR Innovation Practices Observatory run by Politecnico di Milano School of Management.
According to global talent acquisition and management firm, Alexander Mann Solutions, businesses are gaining little value from mobile job adverts if they can’t support the rest of the hiring process on these devices.
A recent survey undertaken by HR search specialists The Three Partnership has found that less than half of HR Directors feel that their organisation’s talent strategy is millennial ready – a worrying statistic given that a report by PwC estimates millennials will make up half of the global workforce by 2020.
Research uncovers insights for determining health of a company, helping people make smarter career, financial decisions.
The fourth annual UK Recruitment Index from Deloitte and the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) found that the majority (79 per cent) of recruiters saw net fee income (NFI) increase over the last 12 months despite widespread staffing challenges.
Monkey Tie is a start-up that has developed the first cloud-based affinity matching software for HR professionals, applied to recruitment and internal mobility as well as learning and development programmes. The company will be launching in the UK this September.
