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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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Agathe Monpay, CEO

    Younger CEOs may be an answer to business uncertainty

    • 4 Oct 2023
    • Peggy Hollinger

    The average age of chief executives is falling — but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing

  • Virtual PA

    Can a virtual PA turbocharge your career?

    • 19 Jul 2023
    • Emma Jacobs

    Services that take on the boring family admin claim they free up more headspace for professional endeavours. The FT’s Emma Jacobs tried it out.

  • Does it pay for British executives to move to the US?

    • 21 Jun 2023
    • Daniel Thomas, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

    When Gavin Patterson moved to become a top executive at San Francisco-based tech company Salesforce in 2019 after a sometimes bruising few years running BT, there was one clear perk.

  • Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard part

    • 4 Apr 2023
    • Pilita Clark

    What might an insurer, a housebuilder and two water companies have in common in early 21st-century Britain?

  • Communication in the workplace

    How to communicate better at work

    • 11 Mar 2023
    • Isabel Berwick and Sophia Smith

    Millennial workers have long been branded “entitled” — often by their older bosses.

  • business card

    The business card is back, sort of

    • 3 Jan 2023
    • Pilita Clark

    From time to time, people say unexpected things in the comments section below this column, but the other day one remark stood out. It came from a reader demanding something to be done about the parlous state of the business card.

  • sweet spot

    Working It: Can you speak your mind in the office?

    • 13 Sep 2022
    • Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith

    Last week, The Intercept reported that Amazon would ban words like “union,” “compensation” and “diversity” from an internal employee messaging system which is set to pilot later this month.

  • working it

    Working It: Welcome to the new world of work

    • 16 Aug 2022
    • Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith

    Hello, and welcome to the new Working It newsletter.

  • alumni networks

    Are you in on the secret? Why alumni networks are flourishing

    • 9 Aug 2022
    • Sophia Smith

    It was a little bit like getting an invite to a secret after-party.

  • chef's training

    What my chef’s training taught me about journalism

    • 26 Jul 2022
    • Madison Darbyshire

    The challenge of hiking in Scotland, I discovered in the Highlands with absolutely no one else around, is that the weather can change in a flash.

  • battlefield lessons

    Battlefield lessons for the modern workplace

    • 12 Jul 2022
    • Pilita Clark

    I cannot remember exactly how old I was the first time I held a gun, but I was almost certainly in my teens, growing up on my parents’ farm.

  • hybrid working

    Hybrid working enters a third dimension

    • 28 Jun 2022
    • Janina Conboye

    After two years in my spare bedroom, I decided to switch things up and went to work in a café in my east London neighbourhood. As I settled in, I realised the WiFi was so slow that I could not even send emails. Long black coffee barely finished, I was forced back home.

  • Lucy Kellaway

    Four big lessons for getting the most out of a career change

    • 21 Jun 2022
    • Lucy Kellaway

    Most salaried workers share two things: a dislike for their jobs and a reluctance to leave them. Breaking through the inertia takes something big.

  • boomerang employees

    Boomerang employees: returning with new skills and experience

    • 31 May 2022
    • Emma Jacobs

    In 2018, Lien Ceulemans left Salesforce for a new job at Google in London. She returned to the cloud software group, becoming a “boomerang” employee, last year. “The people I used to work with reached out when a role came up.”

  • office is fine

    The office is fine but the commute is still atrocious

    • 24 May 2022
    • Pilita Clark

    It rained and rained in London last Tuesday. There was a Tube strike. The buses were packed. The roads were choked. The news from Ukraine was sickening.

  • tribal

    Why a more tribal work life might be a good thing

    • 10 May 2022
    • Gillian Tett

    Many of us in America and Europe are tiptoeing back into the office. For some, it’s a relief; for others, a curse. Either way, as we reacclimatise it is worth considering how the Covid-19 lockdowns have increased our tendency to be tribal beings.

  • job resignation

    The Great Resignation: Challenges in Financial Recruitment

    • 12 Apr 2022
    • John Carson

    Learn how companies plan to attract top financial professionals in a disrupted market.