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Ultimate Guide for Remote...

Remote workers often ask: "How can I become a professional freelance writer if I don't hav...

The STAR interview techni...

5 Best Career Development...

Are you looking to get ahead in your career? There’s so much advice out there, no matter w...

How to Create SEO Content...

Every website owner strives to have a constantly increasing conversion rate. The concept o...

How Supporting Employees'...

Once upon a time, employers typically didn’t trouble themselves much about their employees...

How improving communicati...

When Should You Provide T...

How the Great Reshuffle a...

Auditing Your Onboarding ...

As a human resources professional, you recognize that the hiring process is one of the mos...

Focusing On Employee Work...

Companies nowadays often suffer from high employee churn rates. Training expenses for new ...

Guide to Building Your Em...

Usually, startups don't have time or money in abundance. Therefore, they need an employer ...

Creating an Inclusive Dre...

Remodeling Kitchen Ideas

How Employers Can Navigat...

Perfecting the hiring and onboarding is always difficult in an ever-changing world. As Bab...

Parents penalised at work...

A new study reveals widespread bias against those taking parental leave in the UK, as 1 in...

The Rise of Certification...

Since 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported an increase in demand for medical ...

How To Write A Concise Bu...

The job market is getting highly competitive. Apparently, everyone wants the job you want ...

Ways to Make a Great Firs...

Regardless of whether you are applying for office- or home-based work, chances are, you ar...

HOW TO ACHIEVE A WORK-LIF...

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there’s been a significant change in how p...

6 Steps That Every HR Pro...

Diversity hiring is a term we hear many HR professionals talk about nowadays. Every big co...

7 Tips to Reach Your Job ...

Success, they say, is relative. Some people may achieve it quickly, but some may not in th...

Millennials in the Workpl...

As the global workforce becomes “younger” with older generations heading into retirement, ...

5 Ways to Make Your Workp...

In the United States, more than 70% of people with disabilities are unemployed. This commu...

Types of Employer Brand C...

Every good business owner and company manager would agree that developing a strong employe...

How Can Workplace Diversi...

For a number of years, diversity in the workplace has been a goal of many businesses acros...

The Suddenly Remote Playb...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was a surprise for the world. People and businesses man...

How to Create an Inclusiv...

Inclusion and diversity are some of the most essential aspects of the modern workplace, no...

How To Create The Perfect...

Working from home has always been a nice notion for many. No more office distractions: pun...

Top 3 Challenges Facing H...

Its not you, its me

Attract More Candidates U...

Recruitment marketing can often be a challenging process but we have a few marketing ideas...

6 Ways Companies Can Crea...

Mental health can affect all of us, one way or another. While people are gradually becomin...

Dan Robertson- Most Influ...

Dan Robertson Director at Vercida Consulting has been named by Hive Learning as one of the...

6th Annual Global Equalit...

Many employees, clients or customers and service users can no longer be seen or understood...

Tips for inserting a happ...

A happy and positive company culture can help your business grow at a rapid pace. It can b...

DISABILITY BY DESIGN:6 WA...

Including disability on the Diversity & Inclusion agenda Around 7.6 million working ag...

Promoting inclusive recru...

In order to create change, organisations need to let go of the old ways of doing recruitme...

Why Your Business Should ...

Recruitment is never easy and it is often a subject that gives most businesses a headache,...

An accessible recruitment...

A good equality and inclusion policy doesn’t target any one specific group. Instead it upl...

Does your workplace creat...

How well-developed is your diversity and inclusion strategy? The joy of working with peopl...

Uncovering Disability Bia...

Keep Your Employees Engag...

Age-inclusive workplaces:...

The world of work used to be quite rigid. Workers moved their way up the career ladder acc...

Why Bisexual People Feel ...

You know the acronym LGB, right? The L, the G and the B so easily roll off the tongue in t...

Gender Neutral Uniforms -...

Should skirts be banned in schools?

How to consult staff on y...

Great management strategies focus on people. That seems like an obvious statement but plan...

An evening with the six m...

Join the conversation with a panel of trailblazing women making waves in business Public R...

Disability film festival ...

- Watch the winning entries

How to accommodate employ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is a m...

The UK Workforce as 100 P...

New research highlights areas of under-representation across British industry

Three ways to make your w...

Blind and sight impaired candidates can be brilliant members of your team. But if your wor...

The makings of a leader

In Daniel Goleman’s now classic HRB article ‘What Makes a Leader?’ he makes two key statem...

Get SMART: Why perspectiv...

Early career professionals are transitioning into busy work environments. They are learnin...

Are people with mental he...

Some people with mental health conditions could be waiting for over a year for employers t...

Professional focus: What ...

Early career professionals are usually described as graduates within five years of complet...

A Crisis of Leadership

“The Supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real succe...

The 2019 gender pay gap h...

The first gender pay gap report was published in a blaze of publicity. This was progress, ...

New research shows greate...

Findings from a new and extensive survey on workplace adjustments were announced today (25...

Returner Programmes: Best...

There are almost two million women in the UK who are economically inactive for caring reas...

Mental Health in the Work...

Supporting and maintaining employees’ mental health is a growing priority for business own...

How do you build forward ...

The government is currently consulting on requiring employers with more than 250 staff to ...

The Art of Inspirational ...

In the current age of political turmoil and a business landscape often dominated by storie...

What role should quotas p...

“Who wants to feel they have been given a job due to their gender or ethnicity?” I’ve neve...

Act now to get more women...

Gender balanced leadership teams make better decisions, but they also demonstrate a compan...

The Great Big Workplace A...

Tell us your views on adjustments

Blackface must always be ...

Fashion houses Prada and Gucci and superstar Katy Perry have all been called out for harki...

#BalanceForBetter: Employ...

March 8th sees the 110th International Women’s Day which this year adopts the theme #Balan...

How to make positive stri...

There are many steps leaders, managers and recruiters can take to improve the working expe...

Pay Gap Report

The press release below accompanies the paygaps.com Pulse Report (attached) which provides...

LGBT+ bullying and discri...

February is LGBT History Month. Festivals, initiatives and events promote equality and cel...

Nike showing commitment t...

Sportwear firm Nike is making a statement with more than just great design.

Body language for busines...

How do you fine-tune your body language for the best impression in business?

Effective Communication- ...

Effective communication tips: how to give bad news?

Body Language- How to giv...

One of the hardest responsibilities for business leaders, mangers and HR professionals is ...

"Boys will be boys"... ri...

The problem of Toxic Masculinity Think of the ideal man – who comes to mind? Sean Connery ...

Business Disability Forum

Business Disability Forum calls for strengthened role for equality body in tackling discri...

NHS LONG TERM PLAN

PRESS RELEASE

Five top tips for employe...

What is wellbeing? And what does it mean for employers? It’s usually described as aspects ...

Who manages the managers?...

Six in ten employees told the mental health charity mind that they wouldfeel more motivate...

Uncovering Bias

The impact of Stigma on workplace attitudes and opportunities

Top 5 Faith-Inclusive Emp...

Here at VERCIDA we conducted research to find out how our clients are managing Faith Initi...

Top 10 Disability-Inclusi...

Here at VERCIDA we conducted research to find out how our clients are tackling sexual orie...

Top 10 LGBT-inclusive Emp...

Here at VERCIDA we recently conducted research to find out how our clients are tackling LG...

Top 10 BAME-Inclusive Emp...

Here at VERCIDA we conducted research to find out how our clients are tackling BAME in the...

Top 10 Gender-inclusive E...

Here at VERCIDA we conducted research to find out how our clients are tackling gender-incl...

Gender diversity in Pharm...

Gender diversity in employment, is arguably one of the most pertinent issues in contempora...

How to promote men’s heal...

Men are consistently less likely to seek medical treatment for medical problems than women...

Accommodating employees w...

While many of us have heard of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), it is less commonly u...

The Invisible Faces of Hi...

The invisible faces of hidden disabilities Mick has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Simple ...

VERCIDA launches world-fi...

Innovative inclusive employment career site, VERCIDA, has announced a partnership with Iri...

Age ain’t nothing but a n...

There are no easy answers to fixing the skills gap in the UK employment market that we tal...

Why internet outrage coul...

“Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation”, scream the headlines. Young people born between 19...

A leap of faith: What doe...

This month we’ll consider how to manage a multi-faith workplace. It’s not a new topic. Cha...

World Breastfeeding Week ...

The latest data shows that around half of British women are still breastfeeding their babi...

The importance of wellbei...

Only 13% of employees around the world feel engaged in their day-to-day work. This figure ...

Work-life balance in mode...

Remote working has blurred the lines between desk time and home time. When emails arrive a...

Managing employees with h...

96% of illnesses are invisible. And so are many of the people that suffer them. People don...

Diversity and inclusion i...

Opinion from Dr Mark McBride-Wright, Founder & Managing Director of EqualEngineers Sui...

They haven’t even got a w...

We love a bit of good news. This month we’ve been loudly cheering the Government announcem...

VERCIDA gets top-level go...

Inclusive employment experts, VERCIDA, have been awarded the highest level of government r...

Is your management style ...

You look around at your team… fresh eager faces, heads glued to lighted screens, seamlessl...

How do you make a multi-f...

Religious affiliations in the workforce are set to rise significantly over the next 25 yea...

How to create a multi-fai...

Many corporate bodies already provide canteens to help cater for the physical well-being o...

HR Tips On Dealing With A...

On a professional level, it is expected that employees would be able to effectively contai...

Are Diversity Quotas Beco...

As I travel the world advising leaders of some of the world’s biggest global enterprises o...

Five simple things your c...

You’ll easily spot an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning) ally in...

Mind the gap: why are eth...

An ethnicity pay audit of organisations in the Greater London authority group found that e...

Coming out had me worried...

Casey Stoney takes over this week as the Manchester United women’s team manager. The forme...

How to manage inter-faith...

This September we’re talking about multi-faith representation in the workplace. Your emplo...

Young people are not the ...

Our population, and so our workforce, is ageing. The number of people aged 65 and over now...

VERCIDA nominated for fie...

Diversity and inclusion experts, VERCIDA, have been nominated for the fiercely-contested B...

How Technology Is Changin...

Learning Possibilities at Work – A Myth? When thinking about technology in relation to the...

Barriers to gender equali...

Women’s opportunities in the workplace have changed significantly in the past few decades....

Starting out: Lessons fro...

Best UK LGBT policy Basically, they gave employees dignity in their everyday work. They ga...

Corporate boards and casu...

Sometimes you read a news story so ridiculous and full of misunderstanding that you can’t ...

How To Support A Trans Pe...

When someone comes out to you as being transgender what is the best thing to say and how c...

News and updates for inclusive employers, HR, and D&I professionals. Learn about diversity on-boarding, leadership development and best practise when creating an inclusive work culture.