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Business leaders are far less confident than HR professionals about the strength of their organisation's talent practices, according to a new report from management consultancy Hay Group.

Male workplace leaders who believe gender diversity initiatives are unfair to men need some "attitude restructuring and a dose of reality", says experienced executive Avril Henry.

• Motivation trumps skills and experience for hiring managers
  
• Contingent workforce strategies help organisations "pivot"
  
• Low "AQ" holding employers back
  
• Job ads up 11% on last year
  
• Hiring on hold for rest of 2015
  
• Deloitte appoints high-profile leadership advisor

Better preparing recruits for the psychological demands of their roles has helped an employer achieve a 100 per cent new-hire retention rate.

An employer has reduced its graduate recruitment costs by more than 60 per cent after equipping itself to administer psychometric assessments.

• How to embed a career development culture
  
• Graduate salaries stable, as gender gap narrows
  
• Jobseeking is "always on"
  
• Redouble inclusion efforts to combat racism

• Eight strategies for engaging and retaining older workers
  
• "Purely decorative" competencies a common problem
  
• Unclear job ads a major gripe for jobseekers
  
• Video gaining popularity in recruitment

• HR demand concentrated in three key areas
  
• How to reduce the effects of "emotional labour"
  
• Six steps to more authentic employer branding

The average time it takes to fill a vacant position has blown out over the past five years, but employers aren't seeing a corresponding increase in the quality of their hires, according to new research from insights and technology company, CEB.

• "Inclusive leadership" requires six traits
  
• One in two workers support social media screening for certain roles
  
• Workers biased against older colleagues
  
• Male employees more likely to be s-xually harassed by men than women
  
• Confidence returning to recruitment market