by Andrew Marshall

Top Employers a Whisker away from Lord Davies Gender Target

By Peter Crush writing on the CIPDs magazine ‘People Management’: A near doubling of the number of women in Britain’s boardrooms in just four years has been hailed as a major breakthrough in gender diversity. Figures published on [25 March] reveal that total female representation on FTSE 100 boards has almost doubled from 12.5 per… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

53% of UK workers had a pay rise last year!

Whilst more than half of workers received a pay rise last year, and 63% are expecting one in 2015, the typical pay rise has been just 2% for two years running. The CIPDs latest ‘Employee Attitudes to Pay and Pensions‘ survey finds that almost half of respondents (48%) are dissatisfied with their employer’s pay decisions… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Playing Games could find the Best Candidates for Plum Jobs

An article by Hal Hodson writing in the New Scientist: Hate writing covering letters? Fall to pieces in interviews? Not to worry. Soon the top candidates for a job will be chosen by how well they play video games. Last week a company called Starfighter was launched. Its aim is to create games you can only master if… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Warrant Officers & the British Armed Forces

“…though the ranks are few, the appointments which may be held by them are many. Indeed, there are, today, over seventy appointments among the Warrant Officers…” (Dawnay, 1949, p.3). The rank of warrant officer has a rather interesting history which is not well known, even amongst those who hold that rank. The military grade of… Read More