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Developing a skilled long‑term care workforce
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Francesca Colombo and Tim Muir
Published: 18 December 2015
... wanted? . Other co-authors of this report are Ana Llena-Nozal and Jérôme Mercier. This chapter reviews the strategies to address the need for more LTC workers carried out internationally. A main strand consists of policies focused on recruitment, adding new inflows in the sector. It is possible...
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Published: 11 June 2014
... victimisation family neighbourhood normalisation of gang culture proximate fields push and pull factors social field analysis social norms emergence and evolution of gangs Pupil Referral Units recruitment to gangs social networks Densley J Hallsworth S outcasts peer pressure and affiliation...
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Staff Wellbeing and Communication
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Ursula Kilkelly and Pat Bergin
Published: 02 November 2021
...International children’s rights standards identify the importance of staffing and communication in the implementation of the rights-based model of detention. The recruitment, training and performance of staff, as well as research and communication, are integral to the provision and protection...
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Policy capacity and recruiting expertise in public services: acquiring talent in evolving governance environments
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Evert A. Lindquist
Published: 23 May 2018
... understanding of a field or mastery of a set of technical skills; requires a longer-term investment in training. Rare talent – people acknowledged as experts and at the top of their fields. Table 8.2: Recruitment objectives for policy analysis units Competencies and capacities...
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Changes for specialists III: The establishment of multidisciplinary higher specialist training in public health
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Jenny Wright and others
Published: 30 July 2014
..., formal funding via NMET for non-medics. Public health benefited from a unified curriculum from 2007 through PMETB then, from 2008, following ‘Modernising Medical Careers’, a unified approach to recruitment across all Deaneries. From 2011 there has been a single recruitment system to the training scheme...
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Joining the Line
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James Densley and others
Published: 17 January 2023
... lines recruitment. business building the children county lines drug dealing employment family Grease money Robert women mobile phones WhatsApp Graham deprivation disposable income lived experiences Amy Echo gangs migration of gang members Peter Redthread rivalry violence...
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People Making Change
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Silke Roth and Clare Saunders
Published: 15 December 2023
...Chapter 5 turns to the undoubtedly most important resource of SCOs: SCMs, the people who found, run and participate in SCOs. Participation in SCOs is embedded in everyday life and matters for the recruitment as well as for the sustainability of SCO involvement throughout the life course of SCMs...
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Women and BECTU, 1991–2017
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Frances C. Galt
Published: 27 November 2020
... recruitment and retainment strategy, and so lacked the militancy of the 1980s women’s conferences. However, women’s separate self-organisation again raised the profile of women’s demands within the union and facilitated women’s activity. This chapter further explores the challenges of organising...
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The Why and How of Community Involvement
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Michel Lallement
Published: 19 July 2024
...This chapter helps to understand who chooses to become a communard. At Twin Oaks, as elsewhere, withdrawing into a community is mainly the preserve of the young, white, and middle class. It then describes the reasons why Twin Oaks, like other communities, regularly recruits new members...
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Who Are the Engaged Employers? Strategic Entry-Level Resourcing in Low-Wage Sectors
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Patrick McGurk and Richard Meredith
Published: 28 February 2023
...This chapter examines employers’ recruitment of staff via active labour market programmes (ALMPs) through the lens of corporate human resource (HR) strategy. It reviews the available evidence on the characteristics of employers engaged with ALMPs in England and highlights their concentration in low...
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Criminal pyramid scheme: organised crime recruitment strategies
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Sasha Jesperson and Rune Henriksen
Published: 06 December 2022
... groups and the factors that make people vulnerable to recruitment results in new tactics being adopted to avoid detection and disruption. In many countries, particularly where there is demand for outward migration, a worrying trend has emerged where communities, families and victims themselves become...
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Automated Candidate Screening, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
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Angelo Capuano
Published: 28 July 2023
.... The chapter examines three recruitment tools: (1) contextual recruitment systems (CRS); (2) Hiretech such as Asynchronous Video Interviewing (AVI); and (3) gamification. algorithms as recruitment tools automation candidate screening facial expressions of candidates technology Amazon AI recruitment tool...
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Personnel
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Peter Knoepfel
Published: 14 August 2018
... homogenous exchanges pantouflage ‘political’ personnel Political Support business associations NGOs exchanges of personnel public and civil society actors human resource policies political personnel political support recruitment policies The strategies developed and actions carried out by public...
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Commissioning and delivery
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Jane South and others
Published: 12 December 2012
... expenses and any additional occurred expenses, for example, £ 10 a session for walk leaders. Financial incentives for attending training or recruiting participants, for example, shopping vouchers. Sessional payment based on type and number of activities attended. May or may...
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The Future of Policing
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Bryn Caless and Steve Tong
Published: 01 July 2015
... where polarisation between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ will lead to confrontation. The gendarmeries of Europe are positioning themselves in anticipation of such events. Others point to the need for police forces to become more active against on-line crime and for the recruitment of officers who have...
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Setting up an advocacy project and running it
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Scott Rorison
Published: 30 June 2009
...This chapter focuses on some of the issues that will particularly concern those who set up and manage an independent advocacy agency. These include the recruitment of its board and staff, training and accreditation, securing funds for its work, and providing the support its advocates need...
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Published: 09 June 2020
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Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs
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Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
Published: 27 January 2016
...This chapter provides insights into the experiences, businesses and business practices of minority ethnic employers from migrant backgrounds. Although we review their routes into business, our main focus is on their employment practices, including the recruitment of workers; the impact...
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Organisations' Age Management of Older Volunteers: Pointing to the Future
Joop Schippers and Andrea Principi
Published: 14 May 2014
.... Voluntary organisations particularly underlined the role played by staff shortages, service quality and older volunteers' high experience and competencies as relevant aspects to explain why recruitment, satisfaction and also retainment of older volunteer are essential in the current scenario of increased...
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Active Labour Market Programmes and Employer Engagement in the UK and Germany
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Jay Wiggan and Matthias Knuth
Published: 28 February 2023
... Fund 1999 Federal Employment Agency two tier system welcome pilots dilemma employer recruitment practices employers’ limited use of Universal Jobmatch Universal Jobmatch service disadvantaged groups further and higher education suitable candidates lack of jobseekers employers’ survey 2011...