Selecting staff

New and updated

• Financial services: How to resolve your top three HR challenges

  Date:

  30 August 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With Brexit looming and AI threatening to replace roles, assessment now has a broader role to play in resolving key talent challenges in the financial services sector, says Andreas Lohff.

• Recruitment: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the FCA's proposal to introduce a new public directory of individuals working in financial services.

• Graduate recruitment and starting salaries survey 2018

  Date:

  16 August 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  As the class of 2018 enters the world of work, XpertHR research provides an overview of graduate recruitment, retention and reward in 2018/2019.

• Employers prefer apprenticeship experience over university degrees

  Date:

  15 August 2018

  Type:

  News

  As thousands of students receive their A-level results this week, employers have revealed that the experience gained in an apprenticeship is more important than qualifications when hiring young members of staff.

• Discrimination arising from disability: Withdrawal of job offer after reference highlighting absences

  Date:

  2 August 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust v Lee and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a decision to withdraw a job offer that was at least partially influenced by a reference that focused on the applicant's sickness absence levels was discriminatory.

• Gender pay gap: PwC bans male-only candidate shortlists

  Date:

  5 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Accountancy giant PwC will no longer allow shortlists of candidates for any jobs in the UK that consist only of men as it attempts to close its gender pay gap, the worst among the big four for mean hourly pay.

• Policy on psychometric testing

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, covering arrangements with psychometric testing providers and the obligations of internal users of psychometric tests.

• Making job offers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Revised to provide chronological guidance on the process to follow when making job offers, and to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Interviewing job candidates

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Making a job offer

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.