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Tips for Effective Flexible Working

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:06:46 +0000

Flexible working is generally considered great approach in human resource management to help reduce stress, cut sick leave and increase employee engagement. Are you looking to introduce flexible working for the first time? Here are some tips.

1. It is important to understand the basics aspects about HRM. Where do the staff work, what roles do they perform, how do individuals and teams interact, where do people live and how do they travel, when do they need to be in the office, what do they need to communicate and when.

2. Multi-site working and homeworking aren’t appropriate in every situation so it’s important to carefully determine the scope of the flexible working project. What are you setting out to achieve? Who is involved? How will things change? Will homeworking work for specific teams? How will health and safety matters be addressed? What technologies will be deployed, and how will homeworkers be supported? What HR policies will be in place to ensure communication?

3. It is important to find a way to quantify the benefits of flexible working projects, including cost reductions, productivity gains, service quality improvements, workforce scheduling advantages, employee and customer satisfaction improvements, travel cost reductions etc.

4. Ensure the homeworkers feel they are part of a functional team via keeping sufficient communication, as isolation can turn to be a problem

5. Strive for service consistency by giving remote workers access to the same systems, knowledge bases and other resources as in-house workers. Ensure that the service is not compromised when customers are routed to remote agents.

6. Consider different business continuity options.

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List of Recession-Resistant Roles

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:12:49 +0000

During the time of economic crisis, most companies are looking to reduce their discretionary spending by at least 10%. Many of the roles that is likely to survive the market downturn are dependent on the recession. Here goes a list of some recession-resistant roles.
1. credit control specialists
2. employee benefits consultants
3. insurance claims staff
4. procurement professionals
5. compliance and regulartory specialists
6. underwriters
7. internal auditors
8. IT programmers
9. professional indemnity lawyers
10. electrical and mechanical engineers
11. bridge maintenance engineers
12. property and estate managers
13. medical secretaries
14. maths and science teachers
15. doctors and nurses
16. social workers

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Shop Around for a High Paying Retail Career

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:26:00 +0000

According to research conducted by Tesco, a career in retail has one of the highest earning potentials in the UK, second only to a job in management consultancy.
Using figures from the government’s careers advice website, Tesco calculated graduates working in retail had the potential to earn 140000 pound over their first four years of employment. A 21-year-old joining Tesco’s graduate scheme would start on 23000 pound, which could rise to 47000 pound by the time they reach 25. careers in law, architecture or medicine had less initial earning potential due to the extended years of study. A job in journalism was among the careers with the lowest initial earning power. A word to the wise: it doesn’t get much better after four years.

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On-line Recruitment Resources

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:04:34 +0000

Facing the piling-up financial and economic troubles nowadays, the small organizations and big multi-national companies are both being forced by the terrible market condition to lay down their stuff to further cut their operational costs. The numbers of unemployment people continue rising across the world all the time.
Increasing amount of population in different nations are urged to get back on track as soon as they can. Many people start to make good use of different kinds of on-line recruitment services to get a new job. But, finding the right job is not as easy as you might expected, especially during this terrible economic environment.
There are various web-based companies in practice these days. They are providing the customers with unparalleled job search facilities. Abundant information about recruiting movement of companies across industry sectors are available on-line any time you want. You could easily find recruitment news, such as banking recruitment, marketing recruitment, IT recruitment and engineering recruitment, etc. Meanwhile, all kinds of relevant tips and advice by experts in the field, including the suggestions concerning jub hunting, are also available from these sources. The large amount of information offered are usually categorized on industry, location or key skills. They have brought great assistance to the jobseekers who want to carry out quick and extensive job searches. Many kinds of recruitment service packages are specially designed to be very simple and user-friendly. With some sorts of web-based services, you can even just upload the CV or resume and wait for the employers to come to them. What great convenience that is!
All these premier resources are helpful to job seekers and employers alike. As they could advertise jobs and vacancies on-line to find the right employees, large sum of money could be saved by this approach.
Why not check it out to find more information about this sort of recruitment approach? It could be very benefitial for developing your career prospects.

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