WITH the introduction of landmark employment law regulations just four months away, Anne Corder Recruitment is joining forces with Hegarty LLP Solicitors to host a seminar to help local businesses ensure they are prepared.
Ten prizes per month, from iPad to a star prize worth £3000 PETERBOROUGH-based BGL Group has launched a brand new monthly prize draw open to each of its 2150 employees across the UK.
PETERBOROUGH-based contact centre Fusion has announced plans to create 60 new jobs at its Bretton offices.
BUSINESSES leaders across Peterborough could find their past generosity come back to haunt them this winter as the region struggles in the grip of more snow and disruption. Many bosses across the region took a lenient view on staff who couldn’t make it into the office last winter, after what was billed as the worst [...]
THE growing popularity of online shopping, combined with the fledgling recovery, could cost British businesses billions in the final month before Christmas, experts have warned. Monday November 29 has been dubbed Manic Monday by online retailers expecting Brits to spend a staggering £537million over the internet in just 24 hours. And there’s a chance that [...]
THE public holiday to mark next year’s royal wedding is a PR stunt set to turn sour – unless David Cameron passes it into law, experts warn.
GET ready to attack the to-do list – the first Wednesday in October is the most productive day of the year, experts have revealed. The end of summer holidays, the long run in to Christmas and the brief respite from financial worries following pay day all go towards making Wednesday October 6, 2010 the day [...]
STAYING competitive as an employer is back at the top of the agenda as companies start a battle to secure the best staff to help in the climb out of recession. That’s the conclusion employment experts at Anne Corder Recruitment have drawn from the results of this year’s Peterborough Local Market Survey, produced by specialist [...]
BUSINESSES need to take a more targeted approach to e-learning, according to an industry round table. As the e-learning market becomes saturated with mobile applications, businesses need to provide employees with more focused learning opportunities to see greater benefits.
THIS summer office workers have spent more than eight hours researching and booking holidays at their desks – costing UK businesses up to £3billion. A new study by employment law specialists ELAS revealed that the average British worker spends as much as 8hrs 24mins at their office computer researching and booking their next holiday.
BEACON Financial Limited have announced the creation of its very first management team. The team, which will be involved in the day to day running of the company and its strategic future, consists of three members of staff – Pippa Ellis, an account manager, who is the usual contact point for many of his clients; [...]
INDESIT Company’s UK HR team is celebrating after a successful night at HR Magazine‘s prestigious HR Excellence Awards held on 29 June in London. The team beat off stiff competition to pick up the ‘Best Talent Management’ award for its innovative ‘Thinking for Business Success’ (TFBS) programme, which delivered tangible results and benefits for the [...]
A NEW professional development tool for HR practitioners has been launched by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). My HR Map is an online self-assessment tool to allow CIPD members, free of charge, to assess themselves against the activities, knowledge and behaviours set out in the CIPD HR Profession Map. The My HR Map [...]
PETERBOROUGH-based training provider Toojays has published a paper looking at relationship awareness. Relationship awareness is a theory developed in the 1970s by psychologist Elias Porter and, according to Toojays, its relevance is as great today as it was 30 years ago. Lee Martin, managing director of Toojays Training and HR consultancy said, “Understanding your customer [...]
EFFECTIVELY engaging and aligning employees was credited for successfully carrying businesses through the recession, according to a recent round table discussion. In accordance with research completed by the Chartered Management Institute in 2009, encouraging employees to realise their full potential was regarded as an essential task to enhance innovation during the economic downturn. Louise Knight, [...]
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