Employement and skills development

On Tuesday October 14, the leading U.S. recruitment site set up in 2008, Glassdoor, launched its French version. Based on its original idea of gathering anonymous employee opinions on salaries and...

16 October 2014

Corporate Practice: how the German family run company VILSA-Brunnen helps its older staff take up, for the first time, professional vocational training

Can we go back to school after more than 20 years spent in a factory filling bottles. What are the benefits and challenges of such an approach for both the employee and the employer? During the...

24 September 2014

Japan: update of the ‘worst companies’ list

The highly anticipated ‘Worst Company Award’ 2014 is going to be attributed this summer in Tokyo. Don’t be mistaken by the frivolity of the name: this list of nominees is one of the darkest sides...

17 July 2014

Italy: Cariparma-Crédit Agricole renews banking recruitment, cooperating with Ikea to choose staff

To recruit 100 youngsters, Cariparma-Crédit Agricole joined forces with Ikea in Parma. The idea of working with the Swedish multinational’s subsidiary to try the most adapted candidates following...

22 April 2014

When businesses are tempted by Peter Pan’s spirit

Giving employees candy, setting up slides and swings at work or solving a problem through a ‘serious game’ with the Lego construction game: these “fun” management methods, traditionally used by...

26 March 2014

When HR learns from hackathon

Challenging its employees to solve a problem in 48 hours: that’s the hackathon, a marathon that used to be reserved for workers in computing firms. More and more managers from all industries are...

5 March 2014

Japan: “Japanese-style internships,” or how young graduates spend the first months after hiring being tested and trained to the company’s values

In Japan, March means stress for young graduates who, dressed in a black suite and white shirt, start applying in businesses. Unlike human resources in the western world, these youngsters are not...

3 February 2014

France: transfer of skills at the center of the ‘generation contract’ agreements negotiated at company levels

A campaign promise of candidate Hollande, the “generation contract” enforced by the national cross-industry agreement of October 19, 2012, has 3 objectives: permanent recruitment for young people;...

18 December 2013

BASF inaugurates the largest work-life balance center in Germany, a sign that German firms are taking to this theme

In early November, BASF, a pioneer company in the field of work-life balance, inaugurated “LuMit,” which is the biggest work-life balance management center in the country. This achievement, which...

5 December 2013

Interview of Denis Pennel, the author of, “Working for yourself: what future for labor at the time of the individualist revolution?”

Individuals’ yearning for fulfilling work matching their life choices implies that the social partners and politicians rethink the social contract, explains Denis Pennel, who wrote a book called...

24 October 2013

A quarter of the global workforce would welcome an expatriate assignment

“Mobilising Talent: The Global Mobility Challenge” is the first survey conducted by Ipsos and sponsored by BDO on the international mobile employees’ profile and views. Generous compensation does...

24 September 2013

With Kununu portal, employees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can rate their employers

Like the web platforms allowing customers to say what they think about hotels or restaurants, Kununu portal gives employees, apprentices and applicants the possibility of reviewing their...

10 September 2013

How is an employer brand built? EADS, the most attractive employer in Spain in 2013, answers

EADS has received the Randstad Award 2013 for its excellent employer brand. In order to award this prize, Randstad polled about 7,000 people in Spain. Results reveal that participants ranked EADS...

25 July 2013

Corporate practices: Sweco, or how to attract and retain female engineers

Sweco, a group operating in engineering, environmental technology and architecture, is also the world leader in particle separation and size reduction. It employs around 7,400 people, 70 percent...

23 July 2013

Spain: recent trends in corporate volunteering

Corporate volunteering is not new. Traditionally, it has been conceived as a Corporate Social Responsibility practice. However, businesses are progressively integrating employee community...

22 July 2013

Deutsche Bahn introduces new procedure to recruit young people on their profile and not their degrees

To compensate the number of departures each year – about 8,000 for a total of 300,000 people – Deutsche Bahn, the German rail company, has been adopting more and more initiative to recruit as many...

17 July 2013

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