Weeding out ‘unsuitable’ teaching applicants
Whilst it is not unusual for employers to ask prospective employees to undergo psychometric assessment as a tool to assist in their development it is rare, except for verbal and numeric reasoning, for it to be widely used as part of the recruitment process.
But, in a global first for England, the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has announced that by 2012 all applicants for University teacher training courses will undergo psychometric assessment. Continue Reading »
A Rewarding Career in HR
When graduates think of a career in HR the tendency is to think of generalist roles or perhaps recruitment, learning and development or equality and diversity. But employers offering HR graduate programmes vary considerably and the role that HR takes in an organisation often depends on the sector in which the organisation operates. Continue Reading »
Hire or Fire it’s a problem for the public sector
Hiring and firing in the public sector consumes huge amounts of time and money. The hiring process in the prison sector has 39 steps (a good title for a film?). The National Audit Office found that Continue Reading »