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...
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...
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...
Spanish businesses are getting into 2.0 recruitment methods
Recruitment 2.0 has not been rapidly embraced by firms in Spain, a relatively recent phenomenon, but they are starting to (Ref.  130413)
Germany: more and more employees take sabbaticals
They’re obviously still a minority but they are more than they used to be.  A recent survey by the Handelsblatt daily found that more and more German employees, notably executives, dare to take a...
MSD speeds up development to move young talent into senior leadership positions
The Spanish subsidiary of MSD, a global healthcare leader known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, enacted the “Internship Talent Program” in 2011 as part of its talent...
BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale
The chemical company BASF and the Catalonian Department of Education (Spain) have just reached an agreement by which students from a Catalonian vocational training school can pursue a dual...
Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena
The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...
Corporate practices: SEUR, the transport company, cares for employee retention from the very start of the employment relationship
In 2005, SEUR, the leading company for urgent transport and integral logistics in Spain, conceived a "Welcome and Integration Plan" targeted at their new staff, as part of its talent...
Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices
Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...
19 November 2012
Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower
Chain restructurings.  “Up to 2006, we were mostly concerned with one thing: how can we cut jobs?” explains Veit Echterhoff, in charge of training policy at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG.  And for...
25 June 2012
Germany: federal bill on anonymous applications shows extended ‘workforce pool’ with no additional costs
Christina Lüders, Director of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, said the study’s outcome is definitely in favor of anonymous applications.  The test shows that, with similar qualifications...
Germany: recruitment strategies increasingly rely on employee recommendations
Deutsche Bahn is preparing a general recruitment incentive program.  Deutsche Bahn is currently working on a new general recruitment incentive program favoring the recruitment of people...
Great Britain: businesses commit to anonymous CVs
Pact.  Testo, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Marks&Spencer, Nestlé… over 100 of Britain’s biggest employers in the banking, legal, food or energy industries, employing more than two million people in...
Romania: private managers for national businesses
Until now, the authorities appointed the managers of national businesses. Because of disastrous results in most of these companies - in 2010, the 35 biggest State firms made €10 billion in...
International: employees as demotivated as when the crisis broke out
“Employee satisfaction worldwide, or engagement, continues to be sluggish and remains at the lowest level since 2008” according to Aon Hewitt, the HR consulting businesses of Aon Corporation...
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British bank Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs to invest in AI
Banking group Barclays has announced the cutting of 5% of its global workforce by the end of the year. Beyond disappointing quarterly results, Barclays primarily intends to free up the funds...
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Germany: non-EU recruitment remains marginal despite skilled immigration reform
The news. Nearly a year and a half after the entry into force of the “Skilled Immigration Development Act”, only 4% of businesses have recruited at least one employee directly from a...
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EU: several social texts promised for 2027
The news. On 4 November, the European Commission presented its work programme for 2027. While the focus is once again on simplification, several social texts have been announced. The European...