Take a moment to look around yourself. Now consider the truth of this statement: Every single thing of any value was created by one thing: human effort. The skill of the tradesperson,…

Ambitious companies aiming to leverage the advantages of a professional HR infrastructure are discovering in numbers that simple job descriptions for roles filled by prospective employees offer little scope for the kind…

The HR function is getting more attention in the boardroom, amid a new commercial awareness of the business side of hiring staff and keeping them contented. What had been previously seen as…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 18 months or so, you won’t have failed to notice that one of the biggest stories in financial markets was the rise…

What can only be described as an onslaught of global financial regulation over the last few years, has translated into significant demand for legal expertise in the regulatory and compliance spheres and…

Anyone successful will tell you that their career goal is never straight forward and you will take a number of falls and criticisms on the the way. When I began my career…

The Cayman Islands is one of the leading international centers for the creation and administration of Trust structures. Over the last 40 years, Trusts law in the Cayman Islands has consistently evolved…

This article is meant to shed some light on an occasionally mystifying purpose for employing what is often referred to as temporary, contract, or ad-hoc labor.  Before we get started, let’s define…

Great blog from Hans-Paul Burkner, Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group about the need for leaders to try harder to promote all forms of diversity in the workplace as a bulwark against…

Don’t panic, I’m talking about expats in the EU. As reported in today’s CIPD bulletin, groups representing professionals in various industries recently testified to a Commons Select Committee that unless the UK takes…

Indispensable reading for HR professionals from the UK’s CIPD: Attitudes to Employability and Talent. What does talent mean? One of the most interesting snippets is the lack of a definition for “talent”…

Can you imagine any boss in this day and age giving or receiving that advice?!  Yikes. This article from the CIPD caught my eye recently which reported that, citing a survey commissioned by…