How can UK employers sharpen internal recruitment against a backdrop of a global skills shortage?

A poll of 2,000 working-age adults found London is the UK’s top city for nepotism, with half of respondents saying connections gave them a job compared with 42% of British workers overall.

The latest Report on Jobs from KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has found candidate availability, for both permanent and temporary roles, has risen for the first time since...

Traditional recruitment involves unwritten social rules which are a barrier for autistic candidates, a new report has found.

HR has made considerable strides in creating genuinely inclusive workplaces but if we stand back and wait to welcome the neurodiverse into our businesses, it will be too little, too late. The only way...

Takeaway delivery company Just Eat has announced it will be reorganising jobs in the UK, cutting back the employment rights of its couriers.

Almost half (44%) of businesses do not reply to candidates within four weeks of receiving their job application, according to research from Resource Solutions. The study also found that 95% of job...

Nearly a million (913,000) young people have been lost from the labour market over the last 30 years, according to CIPD analysis released today.

More doors than ever have been opened by the latest ESFA apprenticeship funding rules, cementing opportunities for asylum seekers and opening up apprenticeships to qualifying prisoners, wishing to...

Demand for workers remains high in the UK economy, though vacancies are increasingly being filled by temporary workers as companies hesitate to take on permanent staff.

Six in 10 employers have said they would consider hiring ex-offenders this year, according to new research.

British employers claimed £26 billion worth of free labour in 2022 from workers doing unpaid overtime, according to analysis published today (24 February).