Employement and skills development

A dearth of young qualified professionals is affecting the country, despite the falloff in GDP. Not only is the research sector being impacted but so are both tourism and retailing. The Eldorado...

23 May 2016

Nokia: puts a support package in place for workers laid off after mass redundancies

As expected, Nokia’s acquisition of Franco-American rival Alcatel-Lucent has had significant social consequences. Although the Finnish group did not provide any global figures beyond 1,300 job...

27 April 2016

Portugal: Italian multinational Calzedonia’s recruitment policy is roundly criticized for breaches of privacy

Italian multinational Calzedonia (lingerie) has received much criticism in Portugal. Two of its outlets in Lisbon set up their recruitment operations at street level in full view of passersby. On...

25 November 2015

Great Britain: to fight discrimination, Cameron turns to the name-blind CV

Under the aegis of the UK’s Conservative government, private companies and public institutions have committed to recruiting using name-blind CVs, to fight against discrimination.

27 October 2015

Russia: businesses still looking to hire highly skilled professionals, despite the economic crisis

“We need engineers to design the aircraft of tomorrow, to meet the challenges that technology raises, stated Svetlana Kraïchinskaya, vice-president of HR at United Aircraft Corporation, a majority...

21 October 2015

Russia: foreign businesses scarce among the top employers ranking

Russia’s most popular employment site HeadHunter (hh.ru) has published its 2014 top employers ranking that aims to be as simple and as transparent as possible in a context where an employer’s...

21 April 2015

Vodafone looks to pamper their mothers (employees) around the globe

Vodafone, the British telecommunications giant that employs around 93,000 staff is going to implement a new maternity leave policy that will apply across their global operations (Global...

13 March 2015

Germany: digitization is a massive challenge facing HR units (feedback from the German Association for Personnel Management congress)

How is the rapid rise in digitization changing business models and value chains? What is the impact on how work is organized? What is HR’s role in the face of the challenges that the digital...

3 March 2015

Great Britain: McDonald’s backs an employers’ campaign to promote employee soft skills

British employers are campaigning for soft skills to be taken seriously as business success factors. They estimate soft skills to be worth 88 million GBP (113.5 million euros) to the British...

15 January 2015

When companies use mobile phones to recruit their staff

Using your mobile phone or your tablet to make your job application whilst on the bus in Timbuktu or wherever: mobile hiring allows you to apply for jobs any time and from anywhere. This...

9 December 2014

Deloitte creates start-up incubator to keep better hold of its employees

The British consultancy giant Deloitte is now allowing its employees to create their own start-up, without leaving the company. The new and trendy initiative — for which a sum of £25 million has...

27 November 2014

Japan: Pierre Tuvi “Japanese human resource management is at an historic turning point”

Low unemployment (3.5% August 2014), rising uncertainty amongst the young and old, a corporate culture characterized by collectivism and a very powerful hierarchy, human resources in Japan appear...

19 November 2014

Great Britain: 12 champions to set social mobility standards in businesses

David Cameron’s government has for the first time announced 12 Social Mobility Business Compact ‘Champions’. These twelve models will work on a new standard for Social Mobility.

18 November 2014

Great Britain: word of mouth remains the most preferred private recruitment channel

Despite an explosion in new technology, latest research by the UK government finds that only 7% of employers recruit via social media channels, with the preferred channel remaining word of mouth.

17 November 2014

HR: when the computer does the recruiting

Relying on algorithms to uncover a precious jewel: a secret weapon used by an increasing number of HR departments. At a time when new technology has resulted in an explosion in the number of job...

31 October 2014

Corporate Practice: Daimler calls its pensioners back into service for special missions.

In Daimler they are called the ‘Space Cowboys’. Like with the Clint Eastwood film where 4 elderly retired astronauts are called back into service for a crucial mission (to save the earth)...

21 October 2014

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Spain: a bill to regulate internships

On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...

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On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...

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The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...

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