What would you do with a career break?
Don't you just love it when a company does something different and innovative? Well, while spending last week in Dublin with a client, I came across this piece of innovation from an Irish Bank. Permanent TSB has come up with the innovative (and brave) move of offering paid career breaks to their staff. Now, there […]
Talent Management and free beans for a year!!
If someone mentions the product, baked beans, to you, which brand is synonymous with them? Well for me there is only one brand - Heinz. The same goes for soup, Heinz again!But even with two such powerful brands (and others of course), the company were starting to lose market share, and even confidence in their […]
Teach your children to speak chinese!
If you think we have got talent issues in the UK, then think again! China, now one of the new superpowers of the world, is needing to feed it’s exponential growth with talent. Therein lies the problem. One, there isn’t enough skilled people to meet the huge demand and two, one of their biggest problems […]
Is there really a talent shortage or are companies just jumping on the bandwagon?
There is a recognised talent shortage in the UK currently……….isn’t there? Well that’s what we are being told every day, so it must be true!!. But is it a real talent shortage or is it a case of companies not being able to find the talent out there in the market? (Yes I know there […]
Sticking your head in the sand is not the answer!!
Having attended the CIPD show on recruitment and retention this week, it has left me feeling a little disillusioned. Don’t get me wrong, the show was very good and it was very well attended by many companies, but there seems to be a state of apathy around recruitment - more specifically, how to recruit new […]
