IES Reflects

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Alison CarterConnecting investments on skills, careers guidance and employment 

18 December 2024

Following a recent Parliamentary roundtable discussion on the role of careers guidance in national economic growth, Alison Carter reflects on how careers guidance services can best be developed further to help fill the potential gaps in the future UK labour market.

Duncan Brown

Total reward strategies in 2024 and the direction for 2025: planning, purpose and practice

16 December 2024

As we approach year-end, some twenty years after publishing his first book on taking ‘Reward Strategies: from intent to impact’, IES Associate Duncan Brown assesses the state of reward strategy and total rewards packages today, and what’s needed in the 2020s.

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