Connecting talent with opportunity
Despite the fact that there is a wealth of executive talent within the business industry, there appears to be a concerning trend of people without the skills and expertise being required to fulfill leadership roles. With major management upheavals at international organisations such as FIFA and the BBC over the past few years, is poor […]
Read More →A recent survey by London Tech Advocate has found that almost a quarter of London tech companies do not employ any women at a board level. Over a third of the survey’s 1,600 respondents (39%) said that they worked in a company where women hold less than a fifth of senior roles and 15% had […]
Read More →The NHS is quite simply huge. It is the UK and Europe’s biggest single employer and the fifth largest organisation in world. Responsible for the healthcare of over 64 million people, and with an annual budget of more than £100 billion, it goes without saying that its leadership is of great importance. Despite this, the […]
Read More →With the recent announcement of the upcoming departure of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, speculation has been rife with regards to who will head up the social network. However, despite Twitter’s rise to prominence in less than 10 years, they’ve had a real issue in maintaining a solid management team. For Twitter to continue to progress […]
Read More →Andy Burnham emerged as the clear favourite for the Labour leadership as nominations for the candidacy opened Tuesday night. The Shadow Health Secretary has received the greatest support from Labour MPs to become the party’s next leader, with 55 backers so far. The contest is shaping up to be a three-way fight between Andy Burnham, […]
Read More →A vast majority of female professionals in the finance sector believe that they will never make it to the top level positions, according to a PwC report. They found that many women perceive themselves as not good enough for the roles, stopping them from trying to climb the career ladder. This is despite the fact […]
Read More →Back in May Conservative MP Anna Soubry was appointed as the UK’s first ever minister for small businesses – but what will the Broxtowe MP’s involvement mean for small business owners in the UK? Soubry – whose background is diverse to say the least – will be tasked to back up PM David Cameron’s election […]
Read More →Generation Y or ‘millennial’s’ is a term you see more and more in recruitment. Reason being is that they are now the generation entering and or rising up in the world of work. An excellent candidate is an excellent candidate, the same way a great song is a great song, but rather than being a […]
Read More →It is 17 years since two executives at McKinseys coined the term ‘war for talent’ in a Harvard Business Review article to describe the new era of how organisations were starting to manage their top people. However, while the war for talent rhetoric may still be banded along the corridors of UK Plc, it would […]
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