Employement and skills development

Research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, which surveyed more than 1,000 managers in the UK, found that only 42% would be open to recruiting people aged between 50 and 64. For...

10 February 2023

Germany: autonomy central to staff training at drugstore chain dm

Dm-drogerie markt, Germany's leading healthcare and cosmetics retail chain, has deployed an array of innovative measures to train its employees and maintain their employability, ranging from...

6 February 2023

France: Equans (Bouygues Group) encourages its employees to join the National Guard

On 11 January 2023, the energy and industry services group Equans, which employs almost 27,000 employees in France, signed an agreement with the National Guard, which brings together reservists...

17 January 2023

United Kingdom: Santander lowers university grade requirement for graduate applicants

The UK business of Spanish banking giant Santander, which employs some 25,000 people in the country, has announced that it will no longer require applicants to its graduate scheme to have achieved...

9 January 2023

France: Derichebourg Multiservices wants to use its new CFA to boost recruitment

The French group’s subsidiary specialising in technical expertise is going to create a company CFA in June 2023 to boost its chances of reaching its target of 5,000 new hires per year. Several...

4 January 2023

Great Britain: younger retirees return to work in the face of inflation

On 13 December, the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that between August-October 2022, the number of economically inactive fell 0.2% to 21.5% compared to the previous three...

14 December 2022

Fanny Barbier (Orpea HR head): “we are launching a three-year refoundation process”

In November 2022, Orpea presented a three-year restructuring plan, as the French private services provider (elderly, nursing, psychiatric, and ongoing health treatment), struggles to deal with the...

9 December 2022

ZF Friedrichshafen provides training on electric mobility to thousands of employees with E-Cademy project

Amid a radical transformation process accompanying the shift from combustion engine cars to electric vehicles, German car parts manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen launched the "largest internal...

2 December 2022

Germany: growing shortage of tech and science experts (study)

The renowned German Economic Institute (IW) in Cologne has published its annual study on the situation for so-called “MINT” – mathematics, information technology, natural...

28 November 2022

Great Britain: in the face of record inflation, Tesco is offering advance salary payments of up to 25%

Having already increased its basic pay across its shop network twice this year, making a total increase of 8%, UK supermarket giant Tesco is now offering its employees advance payments from their...

24 November 2022

Great Britain: KFC launches a programme to encourage the hiring of younger workers who are facing employment barriers

The KFC fast food chain is aiming that by 2030 a third of its new hires will comprise younger workers facing various employment barriers. To this end, the group, which employs 27,000 people in the...

15 November 2022

Six out of 10 HR managers consider reskilling for staff (survey)

To deal with the impact of technological change, enhancing employees’ skills in their own jobs remains the main lever used by HR managers. This trend is confirmed by the 2022 international...

17 October 2022

France: BPCE banking group’s corporate project, the ‘Well’ programme, focuses on re-imagining office spaces

By the start of 2023, 9,000 employees of the Banque Populaire - Caisse d'Epargne* Paris region banking group will have moved into two brand new office towers. In addition to this commercial...

12 October 2022

United States: Walmart to extend staff health coverage to include IVF

US retail giant Walmart is to bolster its healthcare offering to staff with effect from 1 November, with a commitment to provide up to $20,000 in financial support for prospective parents pursuing...

3 October 2022

Italy: data from H1 2022 confirms the ‘great resignation’ in what has been a dynamic labour market

More than one million employees resigned their jobs in the first half of 2022, almost 32% more than in the first six months of 2021. On 15 September, monthly jobs data from the INPS Osservatario...

21 September 2022

France: RATP harnesses apprenticeships in bus driver recruitment push

Amid major difficulties in recruiting bus drivers, the RATP, the state-owned operator of the Paris public transport system, is leveraging co-option and increasing the level of recruitment via...

19 September 2022

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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”

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