With the UK in the depths of a skills shortage, it’s harder than ever to find qualified staff to fill the specialist roles in your business. In fact, the government’s most recent UK Employer Skills Survey revealed that a massive 22% of all vacancies in 2015 went unfilled because employers couldn’t find an adequately skilled worker…
A new report in the UK has found that statistics show the lowest level of sickness absence since records began and while this might be good news, when employees do call in sick, sadly not all absence is genuine, no matter where in the world you are. In fact, unauthorised absenteeism has a significant impact on…
Do you know what people think about your organisation as an employer? Building and maintaining an attractive employer brand is a powerful way for organisations to gain a competitive edge when it comes to recruiting and retaining high calibre employees. Here’s 10 top tips on shaping, communicating and nurturing an employer brand: 1. Discover what…
Human resource professionals spend billions of dollars every year gathering job compensation data using traditional salary survey methods. A quick Google search reveals there are 722,000 job-survey sites and 209,000 salary surveys in its database. Some are formal surveys from trade associates and the government, and others aren’t quite so regulated. Either way, salary surveys…
Behind every great success there are key ingredients to make it happen. Some are top-secret so as to keep close-competitors from stealing their formula, but others are common knowledge and when you think about it, pretty easy to do. For the third year running, the WilsonHCG Research Institute has published its report on the top 100…