Dr Nick Wiltonis currently Associate Dean for Professional Education and Accreditation at Oxford Brookes Business School. For more than 20 years, he has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels in a variety of disciplines including Human Resource Management and Development, employment relations and cross-cultural andinternational management. He is the author of an Introduction to Human Resource Management(5th ed.). His research interests include employability, careers and career development, and labour market inequality. He holds a doctorate in the sociologyof work and employment, an Mphil in the management of employee relations, is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personneland Development and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.