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At our latest Carter Murray & Frazer Jones event at LinkedIn’s headquarters in London, leading marketing and human resources practitioners explored the benefits and challenges of cultivating an employer brand. Today’s biggest recruitment challenge is attracting and retaining talent. For Anne Dobey, Digital Transformation Leader at LinkedIn, that challenge can be understood through the arc […]

The quality of line management in the UK is poor and negatively affecting staff engagement. This is according to Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School, who thinks staff health and wellbeing are suffering as a result of poor managerial practices. He was speaking at the latest Why Mental […]

Soft skills are a common feature of job descriptions in today’s working world, as many employers recognise their importance to business success. While technical qualifications and specific work experience will always have their place, a high level of emotional intelligence is vital for workers looking to attain success in both their lives and careers. Now […]

Might Amsterdam be the ideal place for HR professionals to take their career to the next level? Renowned more for its canals than its corporate opportunities, the picturesque Dutch capital is nonetheless attracting a growing reputation as a global business hub. Since the Brexit vote last June, there has been some commentary that UK companies […]

In an increasingly competitive market, reward professionals are tasked with attracting and retaining top talent in their respective firms. An aspect of reward which is receiving a lot of attention is the notion of recognition. We spoke to a number of reward professionals to ask what changes they were looking to implement in order to […]

Where do you stand on the great holiday policy debate? Netflix created quite a stir a few years ago when it was revealed the company operates a non-policy, which means employees can take time off when they want and for as long as they want. The theory behind the move is that as technology has […]

Learning and development (L&D) is one of the key pillars of HR, as it gives companies the chance to influence the wider business world or society in a positive way. Developing and inspiring people, and shaping the future of a business is not an easy task, so organisations need to recruit high-calibre HR professionals who are […]

After many years living and working in London with the highs and lows that this brings, my wife and I decided to move the family to Bath in the late summer.  After working for Frazer Jones in London for almost three years it was great to get the support to make this move a reality. […]

International expansion has been high on the shopping list for retailers and other consumer-centric firms in the last decade.  There have been huge successes, for example with the bricks and mortar and franchise strategy of luxury group Burberry, the concession model of department store John Lewis and the global e-commerce drive of ASOS boosting group […]

Workplace diversity is a topic that features highly on HR departments’ list of priorities. Various studies point to the fact that the more diverse a workplace is – be it in terms of gender, ethnicity or sexuality – the better it will function thanks to the increased range of skills on offer.  For example, MIT […]

With its buyout of EMI, hiring of merchandising staff for the Olympics and the ongoing rise of digital business, HR at Universal Music Group has faced big challenges in recent years. Derren Young reveals details in an interview with Darren Wentworth, partner at Frazer Jones.   How did you get to where you are now?  I began my […]

The current employment market for experienced HR professionals is overcrowded and overly competitive. What is more, given the economic climate of the last three years, it looks set to remain that way for some time. The market has of course always been competitive – HR is after all a pyramid profession with organisations having more […]