Posts by HRLife
Preparing to start your job search
For many HR professionals, the New Year feels like the natural time to start their job search. Others wait until Spring, when new budgets appear and a whole raft of fresh opportunities often hit the market. Whatever the timing, deciding to explore your next HR move can feel both exciting and daunting. Where do you…
Read MoreFinding the right HRBP in a crowded market
Recruiting for your HR team – do you look at this task fondly or worry about getting it right? 🤔 For many senior HR leaders, hiring is both an opportunity and a challenge. It’s a chance to strengthen team capability, plug knowledge gaps, bring in fresh thinking and help shape the future of the function.…
Read MoreDrowning in Applications? You’re Not Alone.
When we take the brief from a client on a new role, it’s sufficiently detailed, clear and concise as we are curious and inquisitive and know the right questions to ask. Our clients know the skills they need, the experience that matters, and the type of person who’ll genuinely strengthen their team and suit their…
Read MorePresentations at Interview: Essential Assessment or Free Consultancy?
Have you been in a senior HR interview process lately? Chances are it was a fairly lengthy affair with multiple stages and included a presentation. Maybe it was the classic 30/60/90 day plan, a people strategy outline or the real-life business challenge scenario. We’ve had so many of our candidates tell us these presentations feel…
Read MoreAre You Flexing Your Leadership Muscle? Juliet Summers shares her views.
If your business is only as strong as its people, then your managers are its backbone. Yet often, leadership development is treated as a nice-to-have rather than mission critical. Are your managers pulling their weight, or are they unintentionally holding your business back? According to Gallup, 70% of team engagement is directly influenced by managers.…
Read MoreHow 2025 is shaping up. Jemma and Kerry share some interesting market insights…
With the first three months of 2025 now behind us, we’re starting to get some early indications of the lay of the HR and recruitment land and how the next nine months look to be shaping up. We asked our network what they were seeing and what they thought would be the key focus for…
Read MoreEnhancing Your Personal LinkedIn Page: Top Tips for Job Seekers and HR Professionals
In today’s competitive job market, LinkedIn is far more than a social networking site, it’s your personal brand on display. With companies like Amazon leading the way by accepting LinkedIn profiles in place of traditional CVs, it’s essential to ensure your page stands out against the masses. Whether you’re actively job hunting, seeking to expand…
Read MoreQuarterly HR Legislation Update from Clear Bridge HR
At Clear Bridge HR, we’re all about providing no-nonsense HR support to start-ups and SMEs across the UK and Europe. In collaboration with our friends at HRLife, we’ve put together this quarterly update to help keep you in the loop with the latest employment law changes that might affect your business. This time, we’re looking…
Read MoreVR in Recruitment: The Future of Hiring or Just a Fad?
Recruitment methods have evolved rapidly, with technology playing an increasingly pivotal role. In the UK, tools like virtual reality (VR) are shaking up traditional hiring processes. But are these methods really here to stay, or are they just a passing trend? At HRLife, we’re diving into the latest technological innovations and how they’re changing the…
Read MoreJob Titles – should we use them or lose them?!
Well, we guess this would come down to how important a job title is to you!If asked the question, many of us would probably say they’re important and have their uses. Internally they tell people what you do and give a sense of where you sit in the business. Externally they can do a number of…
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