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Recruiting staff for your home business
You’ve taken the leap; you set up your home-based business and things are going really well. The time has come to take on your first member of staff. But how do you go about finding the right person? Inviting someone into your home to work for you can seem a daunting task. How should you go […]
August 5, 2015
Getting competencies wrong
Lots of organisations today use competencies to underpin their HR initiatives – talent management, recruitment and selection, training and development. But it is so easy to get it all wrong just by doing any of the following: ‘Sell’ competencies as an HR initiative They might not sound strategic to the non HR person, but competency […]
July 29, 2015
Schools consider double shifting to accommodate growing pupil numbers
The school places crisis needs to be addressed urgently. Introducing teaching shifts could be the answer – by Roy Blatchford The old ideal of having all students in school from 9am to 3.30pm will soon be unmanageable. Re-organising the school day and year is the only alternative. The latest Department for Education data confirms what headteachers […]
July 28, 2015
Living wage to rise to £9 per hour
A new national ‘living wage’ of more than £9 an hour will be introduced by 2020 for working people aged 25 and over to move Britain to a “higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare economy”. From April 2016, a new national living wage of £7.20 an hour for the over 25s will be introduced. This […]
July 22, 2015
A brief history of Performance Management
By Steve Brooks Performance management is not a new concept. But on the whole, the way companies conduct appraisals has changed massively over the last 100 years – so we thought you might like to see a brief overview of Performance Management over the years. Early 1900s: The Performance Appraisal’s Informal Beginnings Several sources suggest […]
July 21, 2015
Legislation impacts calculation of holiday pay
Back in the good old days holiday pay was calculated as basic salary divided by the 260 working days there are in a year i.e. £25,000 / 260 = £96.15 per day. In 2014 though, the law was changed to reflect a European Court judgment that no-one should be disadvantaged by taking holiday. Put simply […]
July 8, 2015
42 under 42 Entrepreneurs Award
As a past winner of the ‘Top 42 Under 42’ Entrepreneurs in Yorkshire Award we would like to say a belated congrats to Lewis Bowen, the 2015 winner! Lewis launched Sheffield-based Geco Industries in 2011 to provide environmentally-friendly and safer fuel options across Africa to tackle the problems of indoor air pollution in the […]
July 1, 2015
Top UK’s HR Consulting companies
A new study by Plimsoll Analysis has estimated the value of the UK’s 230 largest HR Consulting companies and guess what, HR180 is considered in many categories of outstanding performance! Read more
June 30, 2015
We love recruitment!
It was a proud moment for us when George Osborne announced in his 2015 Budget Statement on Employment that Yorkshire was the county which has created more jobs than the whole of France! Our superstars have been busy recruiting on behalf of a number of our clients within Yorkshire and further afield for a diverse […]
June 24, 2015
How to inspire your staff
Poor performance in the workplace is a problem for 96 per cent of UK organisations An article composed some time ago by Doug Crawford for People Management Magazine still holds true today and is well worth reading… Inspiring people is not easy – for most of us it takes time, effort and persistence. Few of […]
June 17, 2015
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