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HR career question: How to achieve further development in recruiting

Question: I am a recruiter – where is the role developing and which next career step suits me best? Many recruiting professionals know this: operational recruiting work is familiar, but at the same time recruiting itself is currently changing massively. AI takes over initial tasks, processes are automated and companies increasingly expect strategic advice and support in selection decisions instead of just filling positions. This means that the role also changes – and this is exactly where new career paths emerge. Some are thinking about leadership, others about greater specialization or moving into generalist or transformation-oriented roles. But which path…

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Latest political news, live | Bolaños hopes to exhaust the legislature and asks the PP “not to condemn a person who has not yet declared”

The Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, insisted this Tuesday that there is still “one year and two months of the legislature” and has asked the PP in the Senate to “not condemn a person who has not yet declared”, in reference to former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Upper House, Alicia García, has responded by attacking the former president, whom she has referred to as “the Maharaja of Ferraz” who turned his office “into a safe house.” In parallel, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, considers that the central Executive should…

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Scaling culture and structures internationally

Intercultural differences and global diversity pose growing leadership and organizational questions for international companies. How can teams be successfully led across cultures, time zones and regional characteristics? A values-based corporate culture creates the framework to strengthen belonging and at the same time make global structures locally compatible. Holm Braun, Senior Director HR at ADP, shows how global companies can productively use cultural differences and make international leadership scalable. Executive Summary Values-based leadership in global companies The challenge: International companies are faced with the task of organizing global collaboration across different cultures, time zones and regional work realities. Uniform leadership approaches…

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Stop ghosting: Ten concrete measures for companies

Candidates are waiting for feedback while top talent is long gone: ghosting is not an applicant problem, but often self-inflicted. Here are ten things companies can do about it. The interview is going well, but after a few minutes the applicant interrupts her interviewer, senior recruiter Patrick Lindsley, in the middle of the phone call. “I’m burned out. I can’t do this anymore.” She always waits for weeks for a sign of life from a company she has applied to. If anything, there will be a succinct rejection – without justification. She is tired of writing applications, taking tests, and…

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Heat in the workplace: What obligations apply to employers

Summer temperatures were already reached in many places last Pentecost weekend. According to forecasts from the German Weather Service, it will be even hotter this week with temperatures rising to up to 35 degrees. Attic offices, construction sites, production halls, field service and poorly air-conditioned home offices are particularly affected. Employers are then often confronted with legal questions. What obligations and protective measures apply at high temperatures in the workplace? What regulations apply when working from home and what consequences do employers face if they violate their occupational health and safety obligations? The article provides an overview of the most…

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Emiliano García-Page has once again said out loud what more and more PSOE leaders think in private but do not say in public. The president of Castilla-La Mancha has recovered the proposal he launched a year ago to Pedro Sánchez, when the PSOE looked over the precipice due to the corruption scandals of José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, and has asked him to submit to a question of confidence or call elections due to the magnitude of the crisis generated by the accusation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. “I hope that the situation can be clarified personally, I wish…

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The authorities are looking for Izan, a 12-year-old minor who resided in a juvenile center in Aranjuez, who disappeared a week ago.

Family, friends, teachers and Security Forces and Corps are searching for Izan CR, a 12-year-old minor who disappeared a week ago in the Madrid town of Aranjuez, according to the organization SOS Desaparecidos. The teenager resides in a center for supervised minors in that municipality, where he was last seen on Tuesday, May 19.Continue reading

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Julio Martínez’s business with the Venezuelan brothers investigated: export of gold and sale of oil

The investigation of Plus Ultra case reveals that the alleged deals between businessman Julio Martínez Martínez and Domingo Amaro Chacón in the sale and purchase of Venezuelan oil are not only limited to the deals that were closed between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 in which a Chinese Communist Party company and a “Swiss trader” tried to buy crude oil thanks to the intervention of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the Venezuelan Government. A UDEF document indicates that “the commercial relationship” extends from at least September 2021, according to an analysis of the messages…

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The Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the police found in an industrial warehouse of businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, a friend of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the contract signed between him and Plus Ultra that stipulated that the airline would pay the company Idella Consulenza Strategica, represented by Martínez Martínez, 1% more than the amount of the ransom granted by the Government. According to a police report included in the summary of the Plus Ultra caseto which EL PAÍS has had access, the document specifies that it is a “contract for the provision of professional services” and is dated…

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