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How to ask for a Pay Rise
Is there anyone out there who wouldn't like to know how to ask for a pay rise? It's one of life's awkward and difficult questions. Is asking for a pay rise reasonable? Do I deserve it over...
How to help employees with career development
Career development is so important. When people develop, they become more engaged. In turn, this has an all-around positive effect on a company’s growth. Every manager and leader should be well...
How to write a learning and development plan
To write a learning and development plan, you need to be commercially and culturally tuned in to what is going around you. Whether it’s for a single individual, a small client group or an entire...
Top 10 interview questions
As an interviewer, there’s something comforting about having 10 top interview questions tucked away in your recruitment locker - especially when these questions transcend the job level, title or...
What is hybrid working?
The simplest answer to the question ‘what is hybrid working?’ is working with flexibility. Consider how people worked ten, even five years ago. Most people had a ‘place’ they uniquely went to in...
How to write a job description
Knowing how to write a job description is extremely useful. This can be said not just for recruiters, HR professionals and managers, but for anyone starting a new job. If you’ve ever been hired...
How to coach someone
Want to know how to coach someone? A good place to start is to acknowledge the dilemma of how to set high standards and get people to perform, whilst at the same time allowing people to make...
How to give good feedback
With most businesses having made the move away from yearly performance reviews to continuous or ongoing performance evaluation, giving feedback assumes an even more important role in shaping good...
Where have all the people gone?
There are 1.5 million unemployed people in the UK today, 1.2 million job vacancies, and a swath of employers experiencing skill shortages. So, where have all the people gone? The answer isn’t as...
