This is a mail i have receive yesterday - everyone else involved call themselves "Principles"! Still hopefully it adds credibility
Hello,
Based on the quality of your post to our featured discussion from last week, our editors have chosen to feature you in our HR Professionals Group on Focus. I just wanted to give you a heads up just in case you wanted to edit or add to your profiles (note – only filled out profiles qualify for promotion). Just a reminder, to qualify for Focus Expert Services (placements in external media, webinar engagements, etc), make sure you have a fully filled out profile and continue to contribute your expertise to Focus through Q&A, Groups and Community Research. Again, thank you for expertise and congratulations!
Here is where you are being featured:
http://www.focus.com/groups/human-resources/
Friday, 22 January 2010
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Employee's Right to Request Training
The Government has now published guidance informing employees of their new right to request time for training, and this guidance is available through Business Link, and is also available on the DirectGov website.
The right to request time for training was incorporated into the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. Organisations with more than 250 employees will need to comply with this legislation from April 2010, with all other organisations to comply from April 2011.
So far, in my experience, companies that provide training also provide the time for the employee to be trained. I have never come accross an employer that insists on training being carried out outside normal working hours. I wonder, therefore, if the employee knows it can get time off for training, it will insist on the employer providing the training. The employee may also use the Act to "train" inappropriately in subjects irrelevant to their job. Again, this can only be controlled by the employer providing the training.
Whatever the ability to abuse the use of the Act, I consider it is always beneficial to the employer to keep its staff fully trained and developed, so that the employer can gain the maximum benefit from the employee, and the employee can get the greatest job satisfaction from its position.
From my own experience, development of an employee can only take place when the employer has a complete understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the employee. To achieve this, there has to be a base from which development takes place, and as far as I can see, Staff Resource Pro from Pari is the best tool to construct this base.
The right to request time for training was incorporated into the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. Organisations with more than 250 employees will need to comply with this legislation from April 2010, with all other organisations to comply from April 2011.
So far, in my experience, companies that provide training also provide the time for the employee to be trained. I have never come accross an employer that insists on training being carried out outside normal working hours. I wonder, therefore, if the employee knows it can get time off for training, it will insist on the employer providing the training. The employee may also use the Act to "train" inappropriately in subjects irrelevant to their job. Again, this can only be controlled by the employer providing the training.
Whatever the ability to abuse the use of the Act, I consider it is always beneficial to the employer to keep its staff fully trained and developed, so that the employer can gain the maximum benefit from the employee, and the employee can get the greatest job satisfaction from its position.
From my own experience, development of an employee can only take place when the employer has a complete understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the employee. To achieve this, there has to be a base from which development takes place, and as far as I can see, Staff Resource Pro from Pari is the best tool to construct this base.
Monday, 11 January 2010
How do you motivate your hiring managers not to procrastinate during the hiring process?
Interesting discussion on aiding Hiring Manager's decision making process, this contains different views which could be helpful for you guys to understand when talking to recruitment companies. The discussion can be found at http://www.focus.com/groups/human-resources/topics/view/how-do-you-motivate-your-hiring-managers-not-procrastinate/
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
A new year with some new ideas
A new year with some new ideas
I posted a link to an hour long webinar podcast, loads of useful ways to start social marketing and getting the best from one of the fastest growing sites on the web, here's another cunning idea:
There are a regular number of tenders advertised through the OJEC for Recruitment Services. This provides two possible options
1. A couple of you/us could pool together and submit a response - if anyone wanted to
2. The winners of the public tenders are announced so if you just follow the process you will see who has won them and that could be a high use potential end user
One such tender, the notification of which was published today can be found at
http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?DataFlow=N_list_results.dfl&Template=TED/N_result_details_curr.htm&Page=30&docnumber=2010002871&StatLang=EN
Have a look and let me know what you think
I posted a link to an hour long webinar podcast, loads of useful ways to start social marketing and getting the best from one of the fastest growing sites on the web, here's another cunning idea:
There are a regular number of tenders advertised through the OJEC for Recruitment Services. This provides two possible options
1. A couple of you/us could pool together and submit a response - if anyone wanted to
2. The winners of the public tenders are announced so if you just follow the process you will see who has won them and that could be a high use potential end user
One such tender, the notification of which was published today can be found at
http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?DataFlow=N_list_results.dfl&Template=TED/N_result_details_curr.htm&Page=30&docnumber=2010002871&StatLang=EN
Have a look and let me know what you think
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
How to work twitter
Guys
I have just found this download of a webcast that gives a clear way to use twitter along with a number of very useful tools. You will have to put up with a slightly disorganised presentation, it is about 66mins long to get a cuppa, sit back and enjoy.
I have just found this download of a webcast that gives a clear way to use twitter along with a number of very useful tools. You will have to put up with a slightly disorganised presentation, it is about 66mins long to get a cuppa, sit back and enjoy.
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