The Guardian recently wrote an article about the increase in the number of small businesses that are practicing open salary policies. Rather than pay being kept a secret...
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Attracting the right job candidates
Each January that rolls around sees an exceptional number of workers searching for new jobs. Whether they are individuals wanting to escape insufferable managers, incompetent colleagues or unchallenging...
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Paul’s first blog entry
I don’t often get a chance to write a blog entry – I’m usually just too busy writing for clients. However, at the very least I thought I...
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EU court decides private messages at work can be read by employers
A European court has ruled it legal and reasonable that employers have access to the private communications of employees during work hours. The ruling was made in a...
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Introverts at interview
That Person Almost every interviewer can tell you that they have, on one or more occasion, come across ‘that person’. The one who laughs just a little too...
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Panel Interviews: what are they and how should I prepare for them?
Panel interviews, which typically comprise of two or more interviewers in the room, can be daunting. As a former panel interviewer myself for senior legal executives, I fully...
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The UK’s highest paying executive graduate roles
The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers has published its annual list of the highest paying graduate jobs of 2015. All of the companies train fresh, budding graduates and...
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Pay gap between workers and executives leads to demotivated workforce
Research conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found that there is a “crisis” facing the UK’s largest companies regarding the discrepancy between the...
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Managers prefer to employ middle class candidates over the working class
UK managers are more likely to recruit graduates who share their middle class characteristics. A review by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission states that bosses prefer...
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