HR job £40k an hour - quick!

grab it whilst you can folks - must be a helluva retailer!!

http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/jobs/jobdetails.htm?ID=6718E470-A695-40B1-94C4-729626245E01&loc=1&loctxt=ls22%207yl&rad=50&sortby=SalaryUpper&sortdir=desc&slo=30000,40000,50000,60000&shi=40000,50000,60000,80000&slo2=80000&shi2=100000&salid=3,4,5,6&distid=2&xmin=359450&xmax=520350&ymin=368950&ymax=529850&xmin2=279000&xmax2=600800&ymin2=288500&ymax2=610300&ps=10&pn=1&iscomplex=False&issecsalary=False


in case they spot it, it currently reads:

HR Business Partner

Salary:

£41400 per hour

Location:

Yorkshire

Organisation:

Michael Page

Posted on PM jobs:

20 October 2009

Job Ref:

MPPX13076467

Deadline:

No deadline specified

The Recruitment Ice Caps are melting...

When it comes to recruitment:

Web 2.0 (& soon to be 3.0) is polar-bear endangering climate change...compared to which the credit crunch is a mere weather front.

Recruitment may not be at the very top of many HR agendas just now - but the talent squeeze hasn''t gone away. During the noughties, candidate behaviours and expectations have changed fundamentally and for ever - regardless of the current jobs market. And that change is accelerating still...

This overview powerpoint of a recent Irish "future of recruitment conference" makes this point very well.. and is well worth a flick though...

http://show.zoho.com/embed?id=523922000000005793&SLIDE=1&P_STIME=0

Sisters are doin' HR for themselves...

Twenty years ago this week I set out on my postgrad' HR Diploma to gain IPM (now CIPD) status.

It wasn't uncommon at that time for mates to ask: "Is that not a woman's career?"
I listened not - and joined another 9 or 10 blokes on a course of around 40.
I went on to enjoy (most of) the challenges of HR enormously - only needing to handle disciplinary and dismissal cases to know it was anything other than a 'soft option.'

Roll forward twenty years to the same week... and I have just completed my first evening as a part time lecturer for the Employee Resourcing module of the self same course. Bizarre enough in itself, but guess how the male / female split looks in these much more enlightened times?

Yep, not one single male in sight, out of a class of 24.

Not a scientific study maybe, but it was a pretty surprising discovery.. As was the fact most students appeared to listen to what I had to say.

More on the still surreal development of me teaching on my old course to follow....