Somerset County Cricket Club are delighted to announce that Lee Cooper has been selected to take over from Guy Lavender as the next Chief Executive. Recruited by Novo Executive Search & Selection. Lee Cooper has developed a very successful career in financial services culminating

Business secretary to announce creation of watchdog to monitor progress of white paper goals as biotech investment revealed. The government is to highlight five key areas where the UK needs to improve its performance when it reveals on Monday the details of a new industrial

Almost four-fifths of companies that have gone through a merger or acquisition have managed to hold on to their ‘acquired talent’, according to a study by Willis Towers Watson. Its 2017 Global M&A Retention Study found that 79% of acquirers had been successful in

Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute in partnership with IBM’s Smarter Workforce Institute, have released the findings of the latest edition of ‘The Employee Experience Index around the Globe’ survey, which finds that the biggest driver of a positive employee experience at work is ‘meaningful’ work.

Heads up: There’s a good chance a lot of your employees are currently looking for another job. A recent study showed that almost three out of four employees are so unhappy with their jobs they are looking for employment elsewhere. Mental Health America (MHA)

Employees are on course for yet another year of slow pay growth, according to research from XpertHR. Pay rise forecast 2018 Forecasts for pay awards in 2017-2018 XpertHR’s Benchmarking service has the full data on pay forecasts for 2017-2018. Private sector employers are planning to

Almost half of HR professionals are not aware of the new GCSE grading system, according to a poll by the CIPD. It found that 48% of respondents did not know that GCSE grades in England – starting with English, English Literature and Maths this

Skype now supports conducting technical interviews via its service through a new Interviews feature. From a dedicated website, interviewers can test candidates in seven programming languages over Skype using a real-time code editor The Skype interviews feature was introduced last week as a technical

Public sector hiring plans are positive for the first time in more than a year Employers have experienced a surge of positivity around hiring against a backdrop of record employment and ongoing Brexit negotiations, according to research from Manpower Group. The Manpower Group Employment Outlook

TEF (the Teaching Excellence Framework) should help universities create more work-ready graduates. Society’s expectations of universities have risen dramatically since the escalation of tuition fees in 2012. Never before has the value of a higher education been more scrutinised by students, parents, government and