The 2014 Budget has provided evidence of a significant economic upturn and points to the candidate-driven jobs market making a comeback.

Many of you will have seen the photo of the new French Cabinet. It includes the new environment minister Ségolène Royal, who happens to be President Hollande’s ex-partner and mother of his four...

Businesses from all the major economies, including the UK, are losing billions of pounds through recruitment errors. This is mainly caused by employees' inability to adapt and retrain for new roles...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has today launched the Good Recruitment Campaign in an effort to provide organisations with guidance to help improve recruitment standards and...

A forum for small and medium-sized businesses has reacted largely positively to Iain Duncan-Smith's plans to ensure jobseekers are more "workplace ready".

Experts are divided over whether interviews are always necessary in the recruitment process, a London HR Connection debate has heard.

Managers are not offering enough support to new executives hired internally, assuming they require less integration support than external recruits.

Organisations hire hundreds of thousands of people each year and , in the face of such numbers, no one can avoid bad hires. However, some require more due diligence than others.

Pay for contractors in the South East and other big financial centres of the UK is significantly higher than the UK average.

Both employers and young people are showing increased interest in apprenticeships after the Government and many employers promoted National Apprenticeship Week last week.

Work created by the effects of widespread flooding in the UK this year has seen the construction sector post its best employment results for six years.

A report on the UK labour market has shown the pool of candidates for employers to choose from is in steep decline.