Blog/News

08 Jun 2018

You can’t help but have heard about zero hours contracts. At its heart is a pretty simple idea.

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Interviews

08 Jun 2018

It’s one of the first questions anyone working in HR gets asked. Exactly what can you ask – and what must you steer clear of – when you are interviewing a candidate for a job? It sounds simple enough, but we’ve all heard of cases where the employer got things disastrously wrong and ended up in a tribunal facing a discrimination action. But there are a few simple tips to follow which should steer you in the right direction – and help ensure you pick the best candidate for all the right reasons. Most importantly, remember that any interview should be used to test the candidate’s ability to do the job they are applying for. Questions should be directed entirely to this goal. Anything which might suggest a bias on your part must be avoided.

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Press Release - I'm a Finalist

07 May 2018

A Shropshire HR expert is celebrating the perfect end to her first year in business – by being shortlisted for one of the country's most prestigious awards. Ishbel Lapper's company HR Solutions Shropshire is one of four finalists in the best new small business category of the Shropshire Chamber Business Awards. Delighted Ishbel, of Telford, said the news was the icing on the cake of a fantastic first year running her own business offering tailor-made HR and employment support to business across the region. "I am thrilled to bits to be one of just four businesses shortlisted and cannot believe just how successfully this first year has gone," she said.

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Social Media

07 May 2018

We live in an age of social media. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn or any one of the myriad of other platforms, there are few of us who don’t have one kind of digital footprint or another these days. But with the opportunities that social media can provide come some risks too. And if you are in the market for a new job, it makes sense to be aware of just what some of those risks might be.

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