Jo is currently HR Director at The Salvation Army. She is also a member of the Executive Management Team with functional leadership responsibility for Human Resources & Communications across 5,500 employees. Harvey is also Chair of the Skanska Pension Trustee Board and a member of the firm’s Ethics Committee.
| Published: 15 October 2019
Soft skills that emphasize collaboration emerged higher than individual skills and are just as important as technical prowess. Learnability is the most undervalued intangible skill, with lack of budget the biggest tangible barrier to reskilling the workforce.
| Published: 14 October 2019
Timo analysed data of 918 start-ups from Start-Up Nation Central, a private non-profit organisation that has collected data on all Israeli start-ups since 2013. He compared the characteristics of each profile’s vision statement, aimed at investors, with how much funding the venture secured.
| Published: 13 October 2019
We are delighted to share with you our next Video interview with Paul Smith, Group HR Director, Outdoor & Cycle Concepts, who will be appearing in the October issue of our flagship publication (Subscribe today to read the full Interview).
| Published: 12 October 2019
That’s according to latest data from CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent job board, The study, which surveyed 200 UK recruiters, found that there are a number of key areas that recruitment consultants are concerned about right now, including low budgets (38.2 percent)
| Published: 11 October 2019
Hours after the PMI data confirmed that British manufacturers are cutting production at the fastest rate since 2012, the Bank has once again balked at the chance to stimulate the UK’s Brexit-addled economy with a rate cut.
| Published: 10 October 2019
The UK workforce is increasingly putting its trust in these platforms to conduct business. The survey revealed that 33 percent have sent customer information via these platforms, 25 percent have shared personnel information such as HR and pay details
| Published: 8 October 2019
More than 60 percent (61 percent) of parents have never checked their child's devices, such as smartphones, ipads and gaming consoles. Over a third of fathers agreed that children were safer with a mobile phone rather than having no way to contact them.
| Published: 7 October 2019
Professor Bozionelos told the British Academy of Management’s annual conference in Birmingham that beyond a certain point managers rated as having high emotional intelligence were also scored as lower for most of the outcomes.
| Published: 6 October 2019
Further good news is that 86 percent of motorists surveyed said that a ‘lack of clarity in terms of ownership implications as a company car driver’ is a thing of the past, and more than two thirds of drivers said that they had a good understanding of the costs and convenience of owning an EV.
| Published: 4 October 2019
