Jess Bailes, HR Consultant
Jess is a CIPD qualified human resources generalist with over 20 years’ human resources experience. She and has enjoyed working in HR in a variety of organisations in different sectors – including investment banking, education, healthcare, and conferencing and events.
Her roles have given her valuable insight into the following key areas of expertise:
- Compensation and benefits
- Reward management
- Talent acquisition
- Employee relations including union interaction
- Change management and restructuring
- Expatriate compensation and management
- Performance management
- Policy review and development
Jess always tailors her advice according to her clients’ needs and aims to delivers high quality, concise solutions in a user–friendly format. She enjoys building strong relationships with clients who often feed back that she is approachable and easy to work with.
Outside work Jess enjoys looking after her two lively spaniels, socialising and open water swimming.
Take a look at some of our latest blogs…
Halloween might be the season for ghosts and goblins, but for HR professionals, the real chills come from the office. Forget haunted houses, HR departments have seen their fair share of HR horror stories, from discriminatory disasters to onboarding gone wrong. And unlike ghost stories, these ones are real… some even ended up in [...]
Roughly 27% of the UK workforce is Gen Z, projected to become the largest working group by 2035 – and Millennials make up a major portion too (34%). At the same time many Baby Boomers are still active in the workforce (12%), while Gen X (27%) continue to lead in many organisations. For the [...]
30th July marks the International Day of Friendship, a global celebration that encourages appreciation of friendships across all backgrounds, promoting understanding between cultures and individuals. In the workplace, it’s about working well with and connecting meaningfully with others, creating a happy environment with more engaged, more productive employees who are more likely to stay. [...]
Companies often face the challenge of scaling their workforce and hiring at pace to meet growing demands. Teams wait for months to get the budget signed off, then rush to get someone in as quickly as possible to take the ‘work weight’ off. Speed in hiring should never come at the expense of quality, [...]
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