Imagine a world where your office space is server free, where you can work from anywhere and where every employee uses the same program. According to a panel of experts brought together by Rezonance in Geneva earlier this year, we will all be going ‘up’ by 2015. Many businesses have already transitioned to the virtual world, but others question its sustainability. What is Cloud Computing? Google is the curr ...

GDS International is a worldwide events and media company and its model for summits is built around networking and focused on interactive workshops. This year, the "Next Generation Retail Summit" was organized in Geneva at the Hotel President Wilson from the 5-7April and followed on from the previous two events in Wiesbaden and London. The Summit provided a number of different networking channels to execute ...

Worries in the workplace With unemployment up, 49% of British working people fear for their jobs with those between 45 and 54 being most concerned. At the same time, some 63% of workers believe they do not possess the skills or experience to change industry if they find themselves jobless. Click here for more results from this new online survey Panique au travail Avec la recrudescence du chômage, 49% des tr ...

Revolution now! A new study demonstrates that older and younger staff have different expectations when it comes to work. The result? With 30% of employees over the age of 50 by 2020, employers have to invest more energy in both hiring and retaining older workers. Read more on what motivates older workers Révolution des séniors! Une nouvelle étude démontre que les attentes envers son travail ne sont pas les ...

How PR or HR are you? The process of finding a job has moved on from the days when you could only head down to the local job centre or spend your time checking the jobs pages in the newspapers to find something. Today, thanks to the internet, there is an abundance of employment websites, recruitment agencies, job focussed networking sites and sites to upload your CV onto. For people focused on building a ca ...

Neoliberal policies result in unemployment and inflation rise Many poor developing countries believed that free market dogma based on Milton Freedman's Chicago School of Economics would bring prosperity. The final result was a deepened level of inequality. The free-market ideology, known as neoliberalism has been encouraged by rightwing thinktanks before being experimented during the 1970s in Chile. Freedma ...

  Generation Y in the driving seat HR needs new solutions to attract young people. For generation Y - those born after 1977 - work-life balance, a job matching their values and opportunities for training and self-improvement are essential. In addition, how can you retain a group which is more mobile and views its evolution in terms of individual projects rather than career? Click here to read the artic ...

It’s all about the money and making a ‘good’ impression The most common lie candidates tell in an interview is about their previous salary, according to a new report, followed by inflating grades and qualifications and then relevant experience. Only 8% insist that they have never lied in a job interview. Read the full results here La plupart des demandeurs d'emploi mentent concernant leurs précédents emploi ...

Age change management starts now Companies can now predict how demographic change could affect the size and nature of their workforce as well as helping to mitigate against potential future skills shortages. How? By filling in a free 30-minute online questionnaire to produce a report on how to recruit and retain different age-groups. Click here for more on the utility of this tool Comment savoir quelle main ...

No trust = no work A study by Ceridian reveals that trust between employees and employers is essential to productivity and engagement and could be key to whether or not a business survives the recession. Click here to read the article Moins de confiance = moins de rendement La confiance est primordiale pour le bon déroulement des activités professionnelles. Cependant, selon une étude, un quart des employés ...

No executive job for Mum! This is the conclusion of a survey compiled by InterExec. The headhunters interviewed for the survey are not against women in high profile jobs, but instead believe that to reach the top women have to give up any kind of career break, including maternity leave. Click here to find out more Pas d’emploi de cadre pour maman! C’est la conclusion d’un sondage effectué par InterExec. Les ...

Raise your visibility for your career Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and VisualCV are just some of the means to help you put your skills and experience on display. An online presence can help sell yourself to the widest possible audience and give you more chance of landing a job. Click here to read the article Augmentez votre visibilité pour votre carrière Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter et VisualCV sont des moyen ...

An effective Meeting Successful meetings need to be managed before, during and after they take place to make sure that you maximize the return on the time you invest in them. Before the Meeting If you want your meeting to get results, you have to make a plan. Look for people who can help you in this task and decide what you hope to accomplish by holding the meeting. Set your meeting goals and they will be t ...

Public sector flexibility on the rise. A recent survey indicates that public sector workers are ready to accept pay cuts, commute further or relocate to secure a job. The second quarter of 2010 also saw a 14% fall in public sector vacancies while private sector opportunities increased by 7%. Click here to read the article Flexibilité en hausse du secteur public. Un récent sondage indique que les travailleur ...

Coach and best friend: two separate entities? Caroline Cryer won the Telegraph Jobs and Henley Business School competition thanks to her essay on the subject: 'Is a coach a business leader's best friend?' Here is what she answered.She first clarified the distinction between a coach and a best friend. Your best friend can be guaranteed to support you in every part of your life and is the first person you wan ...

It really is who you know that counts! This is what a research from Edinburgh Napier University’s Employment Research Institute has revealed. Although social networking is increasingly being used as one of the most cost-effective recruitment methods, it has varying degrees of success amongst different age groups. Click here to find out more Ce qui compte, c'est qui on connaît ! C’est ce qu’a révélé une étud ...

Soldiering on in the workplace The same skills and experience that a British reservist develops before and during a deployment to Afghanistan would cost up to £18 432 for their company to purchase. Now, employers are being encouraged to more pro-actively use these extra skills. Click here to find out more L’expérience militaire des réservistes peut être utilisée dans le civil Les mêmes compétences et expéri ...

How to fight recession depression Mental health problems related to work pressure have been growing during the recession, with one survey suggesting 9% of workers have had to see their doctor. Companies need to address working conditions more carefully to keep workers productive and engaged. Click for more on the causes of stress and why it should be combatted Que faire pour combattre la dépression due à la ...

Posez-vous les bonnes questions? L'auteur du best seller : The Boss's Survival Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2001) et l'un des plus célèbres chroniqueurs de RH aux Etats Unis, Bob Rosner, nous apprend dans une deses dernières chroniques les bonnes questions à poser. Cliquez ici pour connaitre les 25 questions qui vont vous aider à bien interviewer vos futurs employés. As the boss, do you always ask good interview que ...

When a degree isn't worth the paper it is written onDespite a recent survey showing that 59% of graduates over the last two years are not working in the field in which they studied, the Government keeps investing in extra university places.Click to discover the causes of this problem and what can be done about itÇa sert à quoi d'avoir des études si on ne peut pas les mettre en pratique pour gagner sa vie?Ma ...

HR shouldn't be backward about coming forwardRecently, both HR and non-HR professionals in the public sector have suggested that the future of HR is in peril. Spending cuts are on the way and decisions on what to cut will be based on the impact on so-called front line services and cost benefit. Since it is not a visible front line service, the challenge for HR is to show that it is essential to delivering t ...

Trade unions and Managers: 30 years on... With the recent problems at British Airways, unions have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. They started in the era of industrialisation as a means to protect workers from employers but have evolved into a tool for development of their members and negotiation to resolve conflict. Click to discover what has produced this change and how unions contribute ...

"Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This is the essence of sustainable development and necessarily means that the social, economic and environmental outcomes of meeting those needs have to be considered. What is WBCSD? A CEO-led programme dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development 200 members, f ...

The media are full of doom and gloom about the economic situation around the world. Is there a silver lining to the dark clouds hanging over the economy and the other threats we face like climate change and a global food crisis? Some organizations think that green jobs and a global green new deal could be a way out and actually turn the crisis into an opportunity to build a better future. Peter Poschen, Sen ...