HR & recruitment Eight ways to boost employee wellbeing during the dark winter months How to combat SAD and bring a little sunshine into your employees' lives this winter.
HR & recruitment Tips for building an award-winning employee wellbeing strategy Practical advice on taking great care of your staff — from the Yorkshire Post's 'Employer of the Year'.
HR & recruitment 7 ways to keep company culture strong while working from home Working from home doesn't have to mean letting your company culture crumble — here are some creative ways to keep your team happy and connected while working from home.
COVID-19 Five ways coronavirus has changed office work forever Is it possible that, for all the harm and heartache that COVID-19 has inflicted on the world, it has also served as an accidental catalyst for workplace reform?
HR & recruitment Returning to work — HR FAQs for small businesses HR expert Denise Jennings offers advice on what business owners should bear in mind when asking staff to return to work, post-lockdown.
HR & recruitment Annual leave rules & restrictions: everything you need to know Seven different annual leave restrictions and how to use them.
HR & recruitment Bizarre interview experiences — True tales from managers & business owners We asked managers and business owners about the most unusual encounters they'd had while conducting job interviews. Here's what they told us...
HR & recruitment Five HR and people management controversies from 2018 From rogue robots to a very public break-up, these incidents have taught us valuable lessons about people management and HR...
HR & recruitment How to hire successful seasonal staff If finding seasonal employees is an annual struggle, switch it up this Christmas. Here are ten tips to make seasonal recruitment less of a headache.
HR & recruitment Five innovative annual leave policies for your small business There's nothing wrong with traditional annual leave policies, but these changes could make recruitment and retention a whole lot easier — and even save you money.
HR & recruitment Blind hiring: everything you need to know Keeping the recruitment process free from unconscious bias is almost impossible. One of the few practical solutions to limiting its impact is blind hiring — a variation on your typical recruitment process that scrubs [...]
HR & recruitment Is your hiring process fair? Whether you run your hiring process internally, or outsource parts to a recruitment agency, you have to take steps to avoid discrimination and keep the recruitment process fair.
HR & recruitment How to choose between two outstanding candidates: 10 tiebreakers You're out the other side of the interview process and you're left with two exceptional candidates. Candidate A has a little more experience than Candidate B, but you've been more impressed by B's responses at interview. In other words, they're neck and neck.
HR & recruitment How to narrow the field when recruiting: 7 easy steps for managers You've advertised your role in the local paper, shouted about it on social media, and posted it on the big job sites. As a result, the responses have come flooding in, and [...]
HR & recruitment Should I use a recruitment agency to hire employees? If you've ever gone through the process of writing and posting a job ad, sorting through the applications, and then sitting down to interview the candidates, you'll know how much time and effort goes into recruitment.
HR & recruitment The benefits of using social media for recruitment Regardless of whether you're creating a brand new role or replacing a departing member of staff, searching for your next employee can be both exciting and a little bit scary. Choosing the right [...]
HR & recruitment Recruitment 101: how to write and publish a job ad that gets results The perfect candidate for your latest vacancy is out there somewhere — but right now, they don't know their ideal role exists. That's where your job advert comes in.
HR & recruitment Why data protection matters to every small business Updated May 2018 The issue of data protection has been everywhere recently following the furore over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's wider approach to data protection. (Out of the loop? Here's a summary of [...]
HR & recruitment Is rolled-up holiday pay legal in the UK? [+ more leave FAQs] Managing annual leave can be something of a nightmare for small businesses. From juggling staffing requirements and trying to prioritise leave requests fairly, to communicating rota changes and calculating holiday pay, there's plenty [...]
HR & recruitment Carrying over annual leave: everything you need to know Half of employees don't take all of their annual leave, with the average employee only taking 77% of their total leave, according to a Glassdoor study. Although you might instinctively be pleased that [...]
HR & recruitment How to conduct employee exit interviews [+10 questions to ask] Picture the scene: it's a Monday morning and you've just made a start on your emails when a member of staff sheepishly approaches with an envelope in hand. There's never a good time [...]
HR & recruitment How to conduct the perfect job interview [free template] You've attended plenty of job interviews as a candidate, so you've seen plenty of interviewers in action — the good, the bad, and the ugly. But regardless of the competency of the interviewer, it's [...]
HR & recruitment How to improve candidate experience: a guide for small businesses Finding the staff you need to run your business isn't easy. The first step is getting your job ads seen by potential candidates. Then, you need to convince them to apply. And after [...]
HR & recruitment How to recruit for hard-to-fill roles If you've been struggling to recruit the right people for your vacant roles recently, you're definitely not alone. In an eye-opening study by the Open University, 90% of the 400 UK businesses surveyed [...]
HR & recruitment 5 reasons why you should hire older employees When you're a fresh-faced startup, it can be tempting to hire only fresh-faced staff. After all, especially in the early days, what you probably want most is youthful exuberance, new ideas and people [...]