New Resource for HR Professionals Working in MR
May 12 2004
MrWeb today launches the HRchive, a new site section designed specifically for Human Resources professionals in the market research industry. The resource includes live and historical stats on vacancies and salaries, advice on recruiting, features on legislation and trends by recruitment experts, training info and a full set of 'Love and Hate' articles about working in MR.
Most of the features are already live, although the section will evolve, with new articles added regularly and the 'current vacancies' stats, covering more than 1,200 vacancies in the MrWeb index, updated every evening.
Like MRWho, the HRchive is UK-focused but contains some content for audiences in the US, Australia and elsewhere. Efforts will be made to add to International content in the near future, for example with updated stats for US and Australian salaries.
Three feature articles appear today, looking at:
- getting the most from your recruitment consultant (for candidates and clients), by Clive Warren of CSA
- what you need to know about new legislation concerning recruitment, by specialists at PriceJamieson
- changes in the skills needs and job remit of in-house 'field' professionals - from the forthcoming MRWho, with input from four recruiters
The 'Love and Hate' archive includes 36 short pieces by researchers with strong views about their job, grouped into pairs where one is positive and the other negative. The pieces cover most of the basic job functions from graduate / JRE up to Agency MD and clientside Head of Research, some specific sector-based jobs such as TV researcher or pharmaceuticals research client, and some other functions from personnel manager to software salesperson.
Commentaries on vacancy stats, and accompanying graphs, will be updated every six months along with MRWho coverage. Training and skills articles will be added shortly as will an index of training courses.
The resource also links through to other relevant site sections, including a soon-to-be-relaunched career clinic, the vacancy search and the MrGrad graduate section, and the new interviewer and coder vacancies list. Use of the HRchive is free and no password is required.
MrWeb MD Nick Thomas says the new resource has been on the drawing board in one form or another for two years. 'We have wanted to put MRWho online for a long time, rather than just providing it as a pdf file, but the HRchive recognises that there's a lot more we can do besides - things that are possible online and not in a publication principally intended to be printed out. This includes linking between live sections of the site, adding features that wouldn't make it into the MRWho format and providing new or easier searches and cross-references. However, it's only the beginning for the section and we'd welcome suggestions from people in HR functions as to what else they'd like to see added - if it's useful, and practical to add, we'll add it'.
The HRchive has been designed by MrWeb Creative Director Ian Paterson, who is responsible for most of the 'look' of MrWeb, and who according to Thomas has 'worked his socks off' to meet the section's first-half-of-May deadline while producing a stylish, easy to use resource.
See
www.mrweb.com/hrchive for the resource, and let us have any comments or suggestions on
hrchive@mrweb.com
Please note that the name is pronounced 'Aitch-archive' and has nothing to do with the herb, chives.
All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.
