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Recruitment, retention and off-boarding – a lifecycle for valuing your employees

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 15th March 2021 Valuing people when they work for you I had the opportunity recently to host a breakout discussion during a One Nucleus’ (2021) “My question is..” lunchtime session. The question I posed was: “If individuals can choose the company they work for, how do leaders and managers demonstrate that they …

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Diversity in the workplace – making it meaningful

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th November 2020 I have just come off a panel discussion at Bio Integrates 2020 (Life Science Integrates), on “Diversity Driving Decisions”, hosted by One Nucleus‘ CEO Tony Jones and accompanied by Joanna Gould, CEO and co-founder of VisusNano. The conference organisers cited an article by Anna Powers, which  found that diverse …

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Using smarter criteria than experience for selecting the right candidates?

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th October 2019 The area where RiverRhee works, in Cambridgeshire UK, is a real magnet for talent in the Life Science and IT sectors in particular.  Many of the companies are growing rapidly and there is also fierce competition between the companies. We all know that the recruitment process can be time-consuming …

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Revisiting the positive qualities of more traditional methods of recruitment

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th May 2019 Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and director of its Centre for Human Resources, has written a really helpful overview of how newer methods of hiring have lost some of the positive qualities of more traditional methods. (See: Your Approach to Hiring is …

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Tips for hiring the best people in rapidly growing Biotech and Life Science companies

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Guest blog by Alison Proffitt – 30th January 2018 Editor’s comment: Many of the Biotech and Life Sciences organisations we work with are growing in size and investing a large amount of time and resource in their recruitment process, yet there is often a feeling that they are not doing it as effectively as they …

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Competency frameworks – a management tool for recruitment, development and knowledge sharing

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 15th November 2017 Competency frameworks have been very much in my mind at the moment as they are core to the recruitment and interview skills course that my RiverRhee Associate, Alison Proffitt and I recently delivered for a client as an in-house course. They are also an excellent foundation for discussions about …

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