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  • Quiet hiring: why managers are recruiting from their own ranks

    • 13 Mar 2024
    • Bethan Staton, Emma Jacobs

    As a tight labour market makes finding outside expertise harder, managers identify who on payroll has nascent or existing skills, give them training, and reallocate their responsibilities to meet fresh needs.

  • 'What the voices of female executives reveal on investor calls

    • 6 Mar 2024
    • Anjli Raval

    Scrutiny of women at the top of companies can be brutal and unsparing. Nowhere more so than in the Wall Street ritual of the earnings call where executives face questions from financial analysts and investors over the latest set of results.

  • Research from the Boardroom

    CEO turnover: Cross-country effects

    • 28 Feb 2024
    • Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick, Laura Starks

    Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.

  • New jobs, green jobs: Planet-friendly roles dominate hiring

    • 21 Feb 2024
    • Martha Muir

    In sectors from energy to construction and transport, government programmes such as the US Inflation Reduction Act, and the rise of ESG investment, are accelerating work towards net zero targets, and demand for people to do it. Green jobs, defined as roles focused on sustainability and environmentally-friendly activities, now make up a third of postings in the UK.

  • Jobseekers Interview

    The scramble to find CFOs as departures hit decade high

    • 15 Feb 2024
    • Brooke Masters

    Decade-high turnover among chief financial officers in the UK and elevated departure rates in the US and Europe have left large companies scrambling to fill the role, forcing many to expand their searches, rethink requirements and pay more to their top choices.

  • New Technology Innovation

    Beyond tech: the extra skills needed to future-proof careers

    • 7 Feb 2024
    • Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

    Frontier AI systems are becoming increasingly powerful, with potential repercussions across the labour market. Future-proofing careers will mean not only gaining hard skills around technology but also developing a willingness to innovate, pivot, and learn on the fly.

  • Confident Business Duo

    The joy of being a great deputy

    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Isabel Berwick

    All leaders are incomplete. To have a deputy who completes the suite of leadership capabilities is the dream. Classically deputies are completer-finishers, process-orientated and deliverers, challenging leaders and acting as sounding boards. So why do so few aspire to these positions?

  • Boardroom

    Why companies are tapping the boardroom for their next CEO

    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Anjli Raval

    As Chief Executive vacancies rise, so does the appeal of insider-outsider candidates. Board members are separate enough to enact change, but hold detailed knowledge of the company's culture, strategy, and goals.

  • Employee Cut Backs

    UK recruiters register sharp rise in jobseekers as employers cut back

    • 17 Jan 2024
    • Delphine Strauss

    The growing pool of jobseekers reflects the growing trend of workforce restructuring and redundancy elimination across UK businesses. Employers are now tasked with raising offers to secure qualified jobseekers.

  • Working Mom

    FinecoBank takes on Italy’s women-in-workforce challenge

    • 10 Jan 2024
    • Amy Kazin

    Getting women into the workforce, and keeping them in the labour market through their child-rearing years, is a huge challenge for Italy, which has Europe’s lowest female labour force participation rate. Italy’s top company in the FT-Statista list of Diversity Leaders, strives to create an inclusive workplace in which all staff can juggle the demands of work and family.

  • Warren Buffett, aged 93, tops a ranking of global

    In search of chief executives who never grow 'old'

    • 3 Jan 2024
    • Andrew Hill

    An increasing number of big companies are abandoning or waiving mandatory retirement ages in favor of competance-based executive appraisal.

  • Learn New Skills

    Yawning skills gaps pose ‘a real challenge’

    • 27 Dec 2023
    • Bethan Staton

    A recent survey revealed that 36% of workforce vacancies resulted from skills shortages. Declining support for life-long learning isn't helping.

  • Colleagues in Government

    Whitehall seeks to turbocharge recruitment from the private sector

    • 20 Dec 2023
    • Lucy Fisher

    Recruiting industry executives to civil service is one pillar of Britain's strategy to tackle the public sector’s productivity problem.

  • Why personal conduct is a growing risk for business

    • 13 Dec 2023
    • Anjli Raval

    Embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval.

  • Hit the snooze button: it’s good for you

    • 6 Dec 2023
    • Isabel Berwick

    Getting up to exercise at 4am like a CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — the real health benefits are for later risers.

  • Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work

    • 29 Nov 2023
    • Simon Kuper

    Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society.

  • How the next generation is breaking into company boardrooms

    • 22 Nov 2023
    • Anjli Raval

    More businesses are offering apprenticeships to diversify the pool of future directors

  • AI in recruitment: the death knell of the CV?

    • 15 Nov 2023
    • Madhumita Murgia and Anjli Raval

    Generative technology is rebalancing the power dynamic towards applicants.

  • Wanted: in-house legal leaders who can interpret world events

    • 8 Nov 2023
    • Reena SenGupta

    Companies seek chief legal officers with an ability to assess geopolitical risk.

  • Mental health

    Having the conversation about mental health at work

    • 1 Nov 2023
    • Ben Parr

    Keep questions non-judgmental, do not make assumptions, do recognise boundaries