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Anecdotally, I'd agree that it seems men are more likely to ask than women.

Exchange with my boss (the FD) about a year after I'd joined my current organisation:

FD: Some good news - you've managed to cut our recruitment costs by 40%, so saving…

A little off topic here, but my favourite episode of my favourite TV programme (The West Wing) was called Isaac and Ishmael. It was written and broadcast just after 9/11, and was the most sensitive and helpful discussion of these issues that I've seen…

Agreed. Information on an adverse DBS must be sensitive data by definition, so you are absolutely obliged to find somewhere private to meet. This may involve being creative (meeting out of hours) or spending some money (hiring a meeting room in a hotel…

There are some statutory policies that you need to have in place, as Sasha set out. But another starting point is your current practice - just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Find out what has been used as guidance…

This is certainly a live topic across the sector at the moment. The main scheme which seems to be developing as an alternative is APTIS, which I'm sure you've seen already. There are also quite a lot of financial advisers offering support with identifying…

I'm using Natural HR as our HR database and this includes an ATS. I just checked their settings - there is an 'anonymise candidates' option, but it's not clear what this does. I don't think you are interested in a wider HR database but just the ATS, but…

From our support staff contract:

1.3. The Employee’s employment is conditional upon the School receiving two references from previous employers which are satisfactory to the School and upon the satisfactory completion of all necessary pre-employment…

Hi Ali,
I think you can message directly somehow - but my email is nina.waters@emanuel.org.uk. Thanks, Nina

Well you formed a contract and then amended that contract to include remuneration at an increased level, with the offer, acceptance, consideration etc, whether or not it was intended. However, I'd suggest the most she could argue is that you pay her at…

Hi Ali,
Sorry this is rather late but I missed your post at the time. I'm in a similar situation (school using iSAMS with little else other than some spreadsheets to manage HR data), and am mid-process with implementing Natural HR. It's working reasonably…