HR Enters the Cybersecurity Arena

Bring Teams Together and Boost Employee Morale with a Meal Benefit They’ll Love

Drive engagement and satisfaction with Relish by ezCater, a meal program featuring high-quality food options from a rotating variety of restaurants, delivered to work on the schedule that works best for you. It’s a great way to provide an inclusive benefit and a great value-add for recruitment.

📊 HR Trends: Skills, Credentials and Potential

Organizations are shifting from credential-based hiring (degrees, certificates) toward skills-driven models and evaluating candidate potential more directly. This shift reflects a need to widen talent pools, reduce barriers, and respond to tighter labour markets. It also highlights the importance of updating infrastructure (data systems, assessment frameworks) to support skills-based approaches. The trend indicates a deeper focus on what a person can do, not merely what they have done or where they have been educated. Read more.

🎧 HR Insights: HR Enters the Cybersecurity Arena

As identity-based attacks have surged, HR functions are being drawn into cybersecurity responsibilities – connecting workforce risk, training, behaviour and access management. It is estimated that by 2026 more than 60% of security leaders will treat workforce risk reduction as a formal priority, and that HR must partner with security, IT and operations. The implication for HR leaders: the role is expanding beyond traditional talent, rewards and culture—into organisational resilience and trust.

💡 HR Tips & Tricks

Tip of the Day: Map your talent-supply ecosystem: identify internal talent pools, external sources, alternate-path pipelines (e.g., apprenticeships, returners) and overlay them with future skills needs. Use this map to prioritise talent sources strategically rather than reacting role-by-role.

Trick of the Day: Run a quarterly “skills ripple” review: select a core skill (e.g., data literacy, hybrid collaboration) and identify 5 employees at different levels. Track how that skill diffuses through their networks (mentoring, peer-to-peer sessions, project collaborations) and measure changes in team performance or readiness. This gives a dynamic view of how skills propagate in your workforce.

🧾 HR Case Files: Retaining Staff Through Hiring, Onboarding and Benefits in Camden County

In Camden County, Georgia the HR director emphasised how the county’s HR department uses competitive benefits, structured onboarding and consistent hiring practices to retain staff and thus save taxpayer dollars. This underlines that investment in early-employment touchpoints (hiring clarity, onboarding experience) and ongoing benefits alignment helps reduce turnover in the public sector.

Key Takeaways

• Hiring clarity and realistic job previews reduce early attrition.

• Structured onboarding supports employee assimilation and engagement.

• Competitive benefits contribute to retention and cost savings for the employer.

🧰 HR Toolbox

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Resource of the Day - AI in Hiring for Small Businesses

Small businesses can combine AI tools with human judgement to make hiring smarter, faster and fairer. The focus must be on balancing automation (speed, scale) with human oversight (context, judgement, fairness). For HR leaders this resource offers practical guidance on deploying recruitment technology without losing the human dimension.

Event of the Day

UNLEASH World 2025, happening from October 20-22, 2026 at the Paris Convention Center, is positioned as the global gathering for HR, recruitment and learning leaders, bringing together technology, talent, strategy and innovation in one setting. The event highlights current HR themes such as AI in talent, workforce experience, future of work and culture — making it worthwhile for HR strategists, tech leaders and practitioners.

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