About Us
HR has come a long way since it was traditionally known as the ‘hire and fire' job of‘ personnel. Today, the responsibilities of HR professionals have transformed beyond recognition. As well as dealing with pure recruitment and retention, (and having to keep abreast with the latest legal and compliance issues), contemporary HR directors are just as likely to be responsible for the hard business issues of:-
- Corporate governance
- Internal communications
- Engagement
- Corporate social responsibility
- Development of the internal brand
- Talent management
- Succession planning
- Coaching
- Training
- Rewards and benefits.
The HR brand
Since relaunching with Haymarket Publishing in 1999, HR magazine has been steering readers though the journey the industry is taking, adding insight and debate on current HR practice and future HR thinking. HR believes human resources strategy should always be closely linked to corporate strategy and performance.
- HR only goes to the cream of the crop - HR directors and board directors responsible for handling people and with budgets to spend and consultancy to buy
- HR is the industry's only monthly publication that promises to provide readers with original research, new thinking, best practice case studies and strategic information to help them improve performance
- HR is personally requested by 17,000 HR-director-level professionals
- HR is the first and only magazine many readers turn to for current HR advice and future HR thinking
What HR brings
Each month HR brings you:
- Interviews with the country's leading HR directors, including the first major interview with NHS HR director Clare Chapman, and profiles of HR directors from the likes of Vodafone, Easyjet, Starbucks, O2, BAA and many more
- Columnists including Chris Bones, dean of Henley Business School and David Fairhust, VP of HR for McDonalds Europe
- Campaigns - In 2008 HR launched two campaigns - its groundbreaking ‘Make A Difference' campaign, promoting the CSR agenda among HR professionals, and a campaign for the government to provide generic care vouchers, applicable to those supporting elderly dependents as well as children
- Exclusives - the first, and most frank interviews, with the industry's most important figures, including Chris Humphries, chair of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, and Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC. But HR also brings you more familiar faces, such as the first business interview with James Caan - one of the BBC's Dragons' - who started in recruitment
- Supplements - Special supplements that get to the heart of thorny issues - such as the state of the UK skills maze, and why the many agencies serving it may not be value for money; Green fleets - whether they will really change the future of commuting and the latest trends in recruitment and wikinomics.
- Regulars - updates on aspects of learning and development, pensions, benefits, new products, books, and legal issues each and every month
- HRmagazine.co.uk - breaking daily news, blogs and forums and even more features and opinions
- Plus - HR's annual Most Influential ranking, exclusive surveys, seminars and conferences
Written by the best, not afraid to question
Three reasons why HR magazine features the strongest editorial content:
Award-winning journalists: HR magazine is a former British Business Magazine of the Year, and is currently under the stewardship of award-winning journalists. In 2008 HR magazine won two external awards for excellence in business journalism, including recognition from the Work Foundation.
Industry Experts HR magazine's journalists are frequent ‘industry experts' used by BBC radio stations and television news channels
Questioning mindset As befitting its high journalistic standards, HR is not afraid to question the industry and debate where it is going. Our interview with the Terminal 5 HR director weeks before it opened made industrial relations news when it was quoted and covered by The Observer.
