This part of the site is designed to assist you develop innovative solutions to the people management issues central to your business and its future success.
Recruitment is more than just getting the interview right, it's about knowing what knowledge and skills your business requires, knowing where you are going to source candidates, knowing how to attract them and finally how to select them.
This section will keep being updated to bring you the latest findings from our ongoing research into attracting, and selecting the best.
Most surveys of businesses reveal that, whatever the state of the economy, skill shortages are one of their biggest problems.
If businesses can improve their planning for future skill needs, rather than reacting to them, then much of the short-term angst which gaps and shortages cause can be avoided. Of course, not all skill shortages can be anticipated or avoided, but our aim here is to demonstrate that a little more planning can help offset some of the effects.
In this section we look at some of the remuneration choices available to you, critically analyse the main pay practices used by UK employers and highlight some of the mistakes made by employers when divising a reward strategy. This should help you plan and implement a strategy that fits the business, your employees and your future prosperity.
The media continually reports on the ongoing ‘War for Talent’ and we are constantly being told by businesses about the difficulties of keeping good staff. In this section we look at what businesses can do to identify areas of risk and protect themselves against loss of knowledge and competitive advantage – without resorting to pay outs!