Can you dismiss someone for lying in the interview?
Can you dismiss someone for lying in the interview? A good recruitment process is likely to reveal all of the information you need to [...]
November 2017
June 2017
What now for DBS Checks?
What now for DBS Checks? The Court of Appeal has recently ruled that the current criminal records checking system is ‘disproportionate’ and must be [...]
September 2016
Self Employment: The Deliveroo Problem
Engaging workers on a self-employed/self employment basis has historically been a plausible way of avoiding employment law obligations. Self-employed people have very few rights; national minimum wage, for example, [...]
November 2015
Name-blind recruitment
Employers are being urged to remove names from application forms in order to guard against any suggestion of “unconscious bias” against potential recruits from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. [...]
Probation periods: is ‘hire and fire’ really the best policy
This sounds preposterous doesn't it? Something reserved for the CEO's of blue chip companies perhaps, but (and you might want to sit down before I tell you this) you [...]
August 2015
Employing for the first time: what do you need to consider?
So you’ve finally found the courage to follow your dreams and start your own business. You’ve re-mortgaged your house, borrowed your in-laws life savings and ordered yourself some impressive [...]
January 2015
Keeping recruitment costs down
A survey in 2014 by Oxford economics covering areas of Retail, Legal, Advertising & Media, Accountancy & IT sector identified expenditure of £4.16 billion pounds on recruitment (lost productivity, [...]
October 2014
How companies expose their vulnerabilities during the recruitment process
Organisations need to be aware of the potential, often unseen, pitfalls in the recruitment and selection process. Personally I have lots of examples of when organisations haven’t clearly thought [...]