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KEY MESSAGES

*The nuclear industry has an ageing staff and needs to recruit new professionals as they retire

*Its strong health and retirement benefits packages could help it attract the new staff it needs

*The nuclear industry outside north America has a strong expat component, making it easier for recruit staff from abroad

INTRODUCTION

The nuclear industry sector is facing some significant human resources challenges, but new research carried out by Airswift and Energy Jobline indicates that the nuclear sector can still compete for talent.…

COMPANIES want to avoid hiring fraudsters, but can trained HR professionals weed out the scammers at interview through detected personality traits? It is a tough call and cybercrime makes this job so much harder. Lee Adendorff reports.

IT has never been an easy job for company personnel managers to detect fraudsters before they embezzle, counterfeit, bribe and steal.…

THE GERMAN paint and coatings industry is predicting that its sales will grow steadily in the coming year, as Europe’s largest economy continues its steady economic good fortunes.

The World Bank forecasts that 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be 1.6% and in 2018 it will be 1.5%.…

WORLD leader in viscose staple fibre, Mumbai-based conglomerate the Aditya Birla Group has boosted its sustainability policies through a social and agro-forestry programme designed to reduce the environmental and community impact of its in-house fibre sourcing.

Focused on its operations in Karnataka, India, the group has launched what it calls a ‘Better Viscose Initiative’, developing new in house cloned eucalyptus fibre sourcing plantations that are about to come online, supplying quality fibre for Birla operations.…

The German paint and coatings industry is predicting that its sales will grow steadily in the coming year, as Europe’s largest economy continues its steady economic good fortunes. The World Bank forecasts that 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be 1.6% and in 2018 it will be 1.5%.…

WINTER sportsmen and women are busy training for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, in South Korea, from next February 9 to 28 (2018), and part of their preparation will be securing the best clothing and footwear made from carefully drafted technical textiles.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) XP-DITE accelerated checkpoint design integration test and evaluation project has enabled the creation and approval of the world’s first combined EU and United States pre-clearance checkpoint. Its goal is to create a regulatory system that gives the designers and operators of airport checkpoints more freedom to choose how they build and run these systems, making them more effective and maybe cheaper, but at the same time guaranteeing a high level of security.…

Volkswagen will plead guilty to three criminal charges in the USA, and pay a USD2.8 billion fine for selling around 590,000 diesel vehicles in America using a device to cheat emissions tests, while lying and obstructing justice to further the scheme.…

Companies want to avoid hiring fraudsters, but can trained HR professionals weed out the scammers at interview through detected personality traits – or sensitive managers pinpoint an employee who has an inbuilt propensity for graft?

Research can certainly help employers know who is more likely to turn fraudster than not, but it is far from a precise science.…

NORTH Africa has never been a particular easy place to do business, but female and male consumers are prepared to spend on personal care products, and profits are there for the taking for companies that take time to understand these vibrant and often contrasting markets.…