The world of recruitment is undergoing a significant transformation, one that prioritises skills over traditional job roles. Chris and LACE Director Pavan Bilkhoo speak to Neil Carberry, CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), on how businesses and...
We’re often asked to comment on a variety of HR topics in the media and recently we were asked to talk about the impact of the current economic challenges that organisations are facing when it comes to driving their own skills agenda. You can see the article for...
Following on from our previous blog in which we talked about how to select the right systems implementation partner (SI), as well as how you should approach building out a request for proposal (RFP), in addition to the launch of our five step process you need to think...
In July we launched the first in our series of whitepapers looking at how you can reduce the stress from your HRIS implementation programme going wrong, costing you time, money and effort, resulting in a system that your people don’t use / won’t use / can’t use. At...
Skills based organisations are not a new concept, with global organisations already using skills-based practices and a further 75% of organisations intending to jump into a skills-based model in the next five years, according to our ongoing survey so far. Why?...
According to our skills survey so far, the main blocker to skills approaches in the market is that people don’t know where to start. Unpacking the jargon is one of the first steps to figuring out if a skills approach is for you and where you want to get started. If...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive forces impacting businesses today, and it's set to significantly alter the landscape of change management. We’ve recorded a number of podcasts in the last year looking at its impact from a holistic HR...
As a strategic advisory consultancy to some of the largest UK businesses, we’re occasionally asked at LACE Partners about how HR as a function can be more ‘strategic’. We’re asked what, in practical terms, does it mean to take on a more strategic role. We’re also...
Today’s blog follows the recent IT outage that many Microsoft users experienced due to the CrowdStrike update, which caused a loss of productivity and revenue and many headaches for many businesses. Some media outlets described it as a ‘digital pandemic’, and...
“What more could I possibly do?” cries the candidate on their fifth interview for the same position. Has the danger of over-interviewing been underestimated, with skills shortages dominating headlines internationally? Setting the over-interviewing scene… The UK...
Tomorrow the UK public will go to polling stations to decide who the next government should be. The various parties have been canvassing for votes for a month now. At LACE HQ, we’ve taken a perspective on the impact of a new government in our recently produced...
Many organisations have an embedded people analytics function. There is a plethora of organisations that we speak to at LACE who have some fantastic teams that deliver added value. While for some organisations people analytics is still a reasonably new concept, there...
Starting a new job at any stage of your career can be exciting and daunting; however, when you are a recent graduate or early in your career, these feelings are amplified as they come with an additional layer of uncertainty. Here at LACE, we have spent the last year...
This week, our Life@LACE series features Chiara Camerada, HR Transformation manager at LACE, exploring Chiara's experience, growth, and challenges faced by clients in the industry. How big was LACE when you first joined? I joined LACE in 2019 when we had around...
Why we recommend building your HR operating model around the business outcome you most want to achieve.Here at LACE HQ, our mission is to demystify the HR operating model. We are running this series to help HR and People teams set their HR operating model up for...
