Navigating the talent challenge: where should your people priorities lie over the next 12 months? February 9, 2023 The expertise and skills of people underpin the success of virtually every organisation. Yet ongoing skills shortages are often preventing today’s organisations from accessing the vital people they need to innovate and grow. ACCA’s inaugural 2023 Global Talent Trends Survey highlights some of the most pressing people challenges faced by employers globally, including in the [...]
Special Youth Takeover Episode: Perception, Pathways and Progress within financial services February 6, 2023 | Sponsored DiverCity® Podcast · Special Youth Takeover Episode: Perception, Pathways and Progress within financial services We kick start Series 15 with a special Youth takeover episode. Host Julia Streets is joined by Chloe, Sirad, Megan and Harrison all of whom work as Young Consultants with the organisation Participation People. They share their perceptions of financial services [...]
Could A Pro/Con List Set You Up For Career Failure? February 6, 2023 What do you do when you have to make a tough decision at work? Do you procrastinate and avoid thinking about it; do you get on with it, throwing yourself into research, or do you go down the popular route and utilise a pro/con list? Tried and tested, the origins of the pro/con list can [...]
How To Know Layoffs Are Coming And What To Do About It February 2, 2023 If recent headlines are anything to go by, the future of the tech industry isn’t as secure as we once thought it was. Mass layoffs at Stripe and Meta closed out 2022, and in January alone, Google’s parent company announced it plans to shed 12,000 of its workforce, while Amazon has decided to cut 18,000 [...]
How to be successful starting out as a remote worker February 2, 2023 | Sponsored Remember your first day at work? Keen to meet new people, eager to learn. In previous decades, working life was more predictable, and newcomers would learn their profession or trade on-the-job, alongside more experienced colleagues. By contrast, work today can be a lonely affair. Navigating your own career is more hazardous – jobs are more fragmented, [...]
Could you help provide care to the vulnerable? February 2, 2023 | Sponsored Adult social care is one of the most rewarding jobs you can do – one that sees you play a key role in making life better for those who need it the most. Could you be the next person to join the caring profession – and make a difference every single day? The social care [...]
Nuclear Waste Disposal could create thousands of jobs February 1, 2023 | Sponsored Building a geologically safe nuclear waste site deep underground along with the Government’s planned creation of small modular nuclear reactors across the UK could mean thousands of new jobs over the next 25 years whilst ensuring the UK’s future energy needs. That’s according to Corhyn Parr, the woman responsible for the UK’s nuclear waste disposal programme. Ms [...]
Strength in numbers, when we look and sound the same, we tend to also think the same January 31, 2023 | Sponsored Consensus is great for comfort (familiarity). However, be it legacy (group) thinking in an industry sector, or the blind spots that often come from being the incumbent, consensus is most definitely not great for voicing change, surfacing new ideas, driving innovation. Rory Sutherland talks about this from a Behaviour Psychology viewpoint. In the transport sector [...]
Have You Heard About The Rise Of Job Boomeranging? January 23, 2023 The term relates to the concept of a former employee bouncing back to a company they once worked for, but left for pastures new.
It’s Blue Monday, So Is It Time For A New Job? January 16, 2023 January is such a tough month in so many ways: you probably got paid before Christmas, meaning that your bank balance isn’t looking too healthy right now––and payday is ages away. The weather is dire, those endorphins depleted during the festivities are struggling to retain equilibrium, you’ve broken all your resolutions. The icing on the [...]