How many hidden leavers are in your organisation? In today’s tough job market, holding on to mid-to-senior talent has never been trickier. That’s why career coaching for mid-to-senior talent is becoming a must-have: it gives your experienced people the support...
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How to Retain Executive Talent During Organisational Change
How to retain executive talent during organisational change? Organisational change is a given. Whether it’s restructuring, leadership transition, or strategic pivots. For senior leaders, it’s rarely the disruption itself that creates risk — it’s how that disruption...
Executive Onboarding: Maximising the Potential for Success
When it comes to executive onboarding, the stakes are high. A new leader steps into a big role means that everyone’s watching. The organisation has made a huge investment to bring them on board and now it’s time to perform. The danger is believing that success will...
Does Internal Mobility Start with Better Conversations?
One of the most common reasons people give for leaving their jobs, according to our exit interview data, is that employees feel their career aspirations have fallen off line with their employers. Whatever your people may say to you, the most common reason people are...
How Can Career Coaching Boost Employee Engagement?
The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...
Does Remote Working Work for Everyone?
I’ve been a remote worker since I joined Chiumento in 2016 and I love it. Back then, pre-COVID, remote working was still quite rare—I was certainly in the minority and was looked upon with envy and perhaps some suspicion by many of my peers. My Experience of...
Exit interviews – are they worth the effort?
Why is hiring so hard and so expensive right now? The numbers speak for themselves: Full employment is typically defined by economists as the point at which less than 5% of the workforce is unemployed. The UK unemployment figure is currently 3.9% there few, if any,...
Naked celebrities and pre-employment screening: they may have more in common than you think…
Earlier this year the CIPD asked me to be part of a panel at an event on pre-employment screening. Both at that event, and many times since, the hot topic of conversation has been the role of social media, if any, in screening applicants for jobs. However I think this...
AFAIK English is still our official language
There’s been a slow but very noticeable trend going on in my inbox. And it is what I describe as the “invasion of the text messagers”. People who think its ok to send you very short, abrupt emails that clearly owe their origins to SMS and Twitter. They think they are...
HR recruitment – It’s peak online shopping week but do make time to look at these Permanent HR Jobs
This week has been the busiest week for online shopping to ensure delivery in time for Christmas. So if your online shopping is done you should have time to take a look at the HR jobs on our website. Some of our clients are keen to secure the best talent in advance...