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HR Communication and employee’s involvement Regular HR communication: The vision, values, and goals of the company should be regularly communicated to employees, using different communication tools. Bad news is shared while success is celebrated. All employee’s need to be affected by the communication. HR strategies and activities need to be communicated and spread among the…
Traditionally HR, similar to other departments like Finance/ Accounting, Marketing, Compliance or Legal, is branded as a cost centre. All these departments are somehow necessary to keep the business running and support the other departments but they are not considered as driving any direct financial return to a company. The perception that HR and the…
Luxembourg ranks third in the ICC’s Open Markets Index of 2017 In July 2017, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) published a new edition of its Open Markets Index (OMI) study. The study compares the openness to international trade of 75 countries worldwide. There are four main areas of focus which are further divided into…
Companies have to source, hire, on-board, pay, train, manage, reward, retain and lead their employees day by day. Also, there will always be some kind of function fulfilling such kind of activities (even if some of these activities were brought to the line), whatever this function is called nowadays. However, the way these activities are…
According to the recent Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017 Luxembourg has slipped from 3rd place in 2016 to 7th place in 2017 but still remains in the top ten of the GTCI 2017! Luxembourg is still very good in attracting (2nd) and retaining talents (3rd) and shows a great external (3rd) and internal (5th) openness….
Expatriates – Leben und Arbeiten in Luxemburg In Luxemburg arbeiten ca. 160.000 Menschen aus den anliegenden Ländern Frankreich, Belgien und Deutschland. Dies entspricht in etwa 45% des Arbeitsmarktes. Allerdings zählen dieses Mitarbeiter nicht zu den echten Expatriates da sie nicht von einem Unternehmen in ein anderes Land entsendet wurden sondern lediglich in einem der angrenzenden…
Interviewing and Hiring Process – It’s all about the right candidate. The interview situation is a crucial point in the recruitment process as it might be the first and only personal contact between the candidates and your company. In an ideal world, the interviewing process could look like this: Send the candidate an email with…
Die Reform des Elternurlaubs Am 01.Dezember 2016 tritt der neue Elternurlaub in Kraft. Wer Interesse an einer deutschen Informationsveranstaltung hat, sollte am 22.11.2016 ab 18h30 ins Kulturzentrum Bonnevoi, 2 rue des Ardennes, kommen. Anbei habe ich die wesentlichen Punkte zusammengefasst: Wesentliche Vorteile des neuen Elternurlaubs: Flexiblere Elternzeiten Höheres Ersatzeinkommen Beide Elternteile können gleichzeitig den Elternurlaub…
Part 1 Candidate Experience –The importance behind it. What does it mean – candidate experience? Is it only the experience of a candidate during recruitment interviews or is it the experience along the recruitment process? Or does Candidate Experience stand for a process starting at the job advertisement and ending with the contract signature or…
Talking about HR Matters and why HR matters – now more than ever! The foundation of any organisation’s success is built on people. Whether the company is big, small, a start-up or a global company, a profit or a non profit organisation – people management is core to every company’s success. It’s all about employees:…
