Awards mark the official UK launch of Employment Hero’s charity, Hero Foundation Hero Foundation, the charitable arm of Employment Hero, launches in the UK in partnership with Leeds United Foundation to help people facing barriers to employment find meaningful work Employment Hero and Leeds United Foundation honour Nathan Kilkenny for the inaugural Pathways to Employment […]
Six in ten (61%) Leeds workers moved to the city from elsewhere, compared to half (52%) in Manchester, according to new research from Employment Hero Proprietary Employment Hero data shows employment at small businesses in Leeds grew 12.1% in the three months to September, five times the rate in Manchester (2.4%) Leeds is now a […]
Sara Essa has interviewed people at the very top of their sport, often minutes after the best or worst moment of their career. She’s worked across F1, SailGP and the World Sports Summit. On 15th October she’s hosting Beyond the Boundary at Headingley: two panels bringing elite athletes and business leaders together to talk about […]
Getting the go-ahead to hire is supposed to be good news. Budget approved, help on the way, someone to take work off the team. Then the applications start arriving. 200 by Friday. 2,000 by the end of the month. And the person who has to read them is doing it at 9pm, because their day […]
Most businesses don’t decide against changing payroll providers. They just decide they’re too busy and they’ll “do it later.” And later probably seems reasonable. There’s a lot on, the current system “basically” works, and nobody wants to be the person who broke payday. So switching payroll providers goes on the list for the next quarter, […]
Daniella Angel has spent nearly fifteen years in talent acquisition, agency and in-house, hiring everyone from entry level to executive. For most of those years she’d read every CV herself. Daniella had tried AI scoring on and off (with other tools) but had written it off. Then one role brought in 3,994 applications. Now, Daniella […]
Nobody books a quick chat to tell you they’re happy. So when someone good asks for ten minutes and doesn’t say what it’s about, you pretty much know they’ll be gone in a month. The temptation is to file it under money, or London, or bad luck… And sometimes that’s what it is. More often […]
You were just in your attorney’s office talking about the plea offer the prosecutor sent over. Your attorney explained what it is and the sentence range you would face if a jury convicts you. Nothing about this is easy, because either decision can affect your life. You know you would say “not guilty” if you […]
A recent USA TODAY article examined whether Graham Platner, until recently a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, could face criminal charges over a 2021 sexual assault allegation. The outlet turned to William Bly, founder of The Maine Criminal Defense Group, for perspective on how Maine law would treat an allegation like this. His […]
Getting the go-ahead to hire is supposed to be good news. Budget approved, help on the way, someone to take work off the team. Then the applications start arriving. 200 by Friday. 2,000 by the end of the month. And the person who has to read them is doing it at 9pm, because their day […]
