Recruitment & HR Community

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At CharityJob, we’re exploring how the recruitment landscape is changing - and we’d love to hear from you! If you're a recruiter, please could you take five minutes to share your insights in our surv...
Zac Leonard
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Hello! Has anyone ever come across full funding opportunities for accreditations in either AI or Coaching? I have had requests for both recently but am really struggling to find fully funded opportun...
Annette Reid
Does anyone have both volunteering and HR under their remit? If so, I would love to chat.
Annette Reid
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Dear fellow members, I am looking for an AI guide for hiring managers on how to handle situations where the candidates seem to be using an AI tool during the hiring process. Any inputs will be apprec...
I am hoping someone could offer me some advice. We have a very small number of volunteers at present, however, we are looking to expand! That being said, not all of them will be able to come into the...
Sarah Small
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I have a  high ranking role in an organisation and for the last 6 months there has been a relentless campaign to oust me. Have been suspended on spurious grounds and currently going through investiga...
Anonymous user
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Does anyone know  how I ensure an investigator is independent when my grievance is with the chair of a small charity
Anonymous user
Hi all 👋   Hope you're all having a great start to the week!  I am currently reviewing and working on a couple of compensation topics and wondered if anyone could very kindly provide any information...
Samantha Rees
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I work in a charity supporting families. The support is low level at the early help stage but sometimes it does throw up safeguarding concerns and other issues, i.e. a recent bereavement in one fami...
Anonymous user
At CharityJob, we’re exploring how the recruitment landscape is changing - and we’d love to hear from you! If you're a recruiter, please could you take just five minutes to share your insights in our...
Jinsha Joshy
We're currently in the process of recruiting for a couple of roles. We are a micro-charity and these are part-time positions. We are exploring solutions for an effective recruitment ATS that can: - C...
Matt Mahmood-Ogston
Hi. Is anyone willing to share their menopause policy with us please? Thanks.
Karen Bateson
Hello, We are wanting to introduce a more structured recognition and rewards programme for length of service, likely celebrating 1 year and then rewarding for 5, 10, 15 years.  Does anyone do somethi...
Isabel Love
It’s a weird time right now. We’re all riding the corona coaster as best we can. While some have been on and off furlough, others have been keeping the organisation ticking over and many have been ge...
Lucy Gower
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What is the policy of taking notes/ minutes/notes at Redundancy discussions leading to a Redundancy? One would think they would be mandatory, and an essential requirement. Also that this requirement...
Anonymous user
HI all,  Thanks for letting me join this great community - it was a recommendation as the charity and not for profot sector are things I'm very passionate about and would love to make an impact in. A...
Hi All, I'm looking for recommendations of free or low cost e-learnig for subjects like basioc health and saftey, safeguarding and data protection. Any help would be greatly apporcated
Mike Preston
Hello, I’m curious to know how you handle situations where someone wants to raise a concern anonymously. Do you have any suggestions on how this can be done in practice? For example, do you use a spe...
Veronica Ghobert
Super excited that I've started working in The Glasgow Science Centre this week! I had no idea it was a charity!
Anonymous
Hi everyone, I am currently a primary school Headteacher, but am leaving this summer in search of a new challenge and hopefully a better work life balance! I would love to work in the charity sector...
Anonymous user
Hi All, We are considering going out to market for our benefits provider, as we have been with the same company for a number of years. They liaise with our pension provider;  do an annual market revi...
Hello,  I would like to understand if a charity contracts a consultant overseas, is it legal for that consultant to also represent the organisation in conferences and collectives and attend team conv...
Devika Kapoor
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Do you use professional, paid-for coaching within your organisation and how do you find a good coach?
Ocean King
who can provide with template policies which can then tweak and adapt to our situation.   We ideally like the idea of working with someone who can provide us templates to work with, and we can then g...
Mike Preston
Hi, can anyone recommend any good fully funded or part funded managers training courses? I know about the apprenticeship 95% funded courses funded by the government but wondered if there was anything...
Corinne Dicker
We have outsourced HR and the agreement is up for renewal. The new terms aren't great and we've decided to shop around for alternatives - ideally a London or south east based company, but we're flexi...
Nick Parr
Hi, We have recently reviewed our contract of employment and I had proposed included reference to short-term working and lay offs. We introduced this into some contracts after COVID. Before we roll t...
Jo Tredgett
As a charity within the care sector, we are increasingly concerned about the upcoming changes limiting our ability to sponsor or renew Care Support Worker visas beyond July 2028. We are keen to under...
Jo Plimmer
Hi all I've got these two running on CharityJobs and Linked In, plus a bit of legwork on Facebook  and other social media. The question is whether there are other low-cost platforms to increase reach...
A CharityConnect User
Hi, I am benchmarking our current company sick pay entitlement. I know this can vary widely from organisation to organisation. We have approx 60 employees in the charity, which includes our retail te...
Jo Tredgett
Hi, can anyone offer any help/advice for recruiting new trustees and treasurer? We've had adverts on the borough volunteering hub, LinkedIn and ICAEW charity job hub for months and not had a single a...
Beverley Jordan
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