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Business leaders in Birmingham have been urged to adapt their recruitment practices and seek ways to better utilise untapped talent. The call came at a major conference which heard the private sector was not yet hiring a workforce which fully reflects the diverse ethnic backgrounds of people across the city.
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Best practices suggest that we use behavioural interviewing to distinguish between knowledge and skill before hiring and a skills matrix to grade the ability of staff to do what they need to be able to do after hiring. The skills matrix helps us to identify who needs to be able to do what. 'Do' rather than 'know' is the keyword here and this should be reflected in the skills matrix.
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WE are often told of the humane hiring and firing practices of our friends in the European Union. But try telling that to traders at Commerzbank's London HQ. Forget about the personal touch: last week's grisly declaration of hundreds of City job losses was made to staff via an internal TV broadcast.
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DAVID Cameron is right to address the problems and opportunities of an ageing population and suggest the associated costs can be reduced by allowing older people to continue leading productive working lives. It is disappointing, however, that he looks to the Asdas of this world to hire older workers while ignoring the often ageist hiring practices for more challenging, high-profile, jobs in organisations such as his own political party.
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New Statesman - February 26, 2007
In 2005, all hell broke loose when Larry Summers, the president of Harvard University, suggested that along with sexist hiring practices and career breaks for childbirth, the relatively small number of exceptional women mathematicians and physicists may also have a biological explanation. The true hypocrisy of her behaviour lay not so much in a Labour minister going private, as in a former education secretary whose government had closed state special schools sending her dyslexic son to an ex...
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Kim Hope, a senior purchaser at Northumbria Water, is seeking more than L500,000 in damages after an employment tribunal found her former employer -- Sita UK -- guilty of sex discrimination, unequal pay and unfair dismissal. CIPS/Croner Reward salary survey found that the equal pay gap between male and female purchasers had all but disappeared in the UK. And it is at this senior level in particular that women are increasingly coming forward with sex discrimination claims. Apart from expensive...
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News and Business
Management Services - Vol. 51 Nbr. 3, October 2007
Corporate responsibility is a key issue for modern businesses, whether it is questions about ethical sourcing, pollution and greenhouse gases, responsible hiring practices, responsible marketing or any other issue which may seem to appear as if from nowhere. If managers think about corporate responsibility as being like any other business activity then it comes down to a case of prioritizing resources, and routine decision-making. What managers need to do systematically is assess the impact o...
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The Herald - June 24, 2009
Warning to banks over pay deals FSA chairman worried about 'very aggressive' hiring activity
FINANCIAL Services Authority chairman Lord Adair Turner yesterday issued a warning to banks about a hiring spending spree and said "significant changes" still needed to be made to bank pay. In the wake of Royal Bank of Scotland's award of a pay package nearing GBP10m to chief executive Stephen Hester, Turner said the Edinburgh institution's remuneration decisions were "a matter for the government and UK Financial Investments not the FSA".
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News and Business
Evening Standard - London - December 22, 2005
... The company admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to make several changes in promotion and hiring practices and in monitoring federal ...
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Evening Times - June 07, 2004
Health Chiefs Hire Dentists for New Unit; Move to Ensure All City Patients Get Treatment
HEALTH bosses in Glasgow are hiring their own dentists for the first time in a bid to make sure everyone can get treatment on the NHS. All of Glasgow's general dental surgeons are self-employed and run their own businesses.
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