“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Hellen Keller “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” – Elie Wiesel The year of 2018 is being called “‘the worst for humanitarian crises’” since World War II.(1) In the midst of…

In many developing countries, women and girls face unfair treatment due to cultural and religious expectations. However, many women from these countries have risen to the plate and have contributed significantly to fighting against the injustices that their fellow citizens face daily simply because of their gender. Their stories illustrate…

Competency-based interviews are increasingly becoming one of the most common interview methods employers are using. With HR becoming increasingly recognised as fundamental to business development, this format of interview gives employers the ability to assess how candidates have previously performed in relation to the job specification at hand (1). They…

Cambridge Analytica’s data breach, which has compromised at least 87 million Facebook users’ personal information,(1) has taken the internet by storm this week, causing many to vow to stop using the platform. The breach also included harvesting people’s personal messages, which has awakened the current conversation about privacy and caused…

At Oxford HR we do not only help organisations find the best people to bring a positive change in our societies. What brings us together is that we want to contribute to that change directly, ourselves. Conversations on how to best do that when we recruit, how to avoid discrimination…

This week, leadership in the international development sector has been in the spotlight like never before. Businesses tend to fail very, very slowly and then very, very quickly and this is equally true in the non-profit sector – as we saw last year with Kids Company and will no doubt…