There’s a scene in the 1998 Star Trek film Insurrection where Captain Jean-Luc Picard admires a beautifully made blanket by a Ba’ku inhabitant of a planet on which everyone has the secret of...

On Tuesday 27 November there will be a live TV debate: Practical steps to close the skills gap in today's workplace.

UK entrepreneurs have made a call for young people to develop an 'employ yourself' attitude, starting up their own business rather than trying to get a job when faced with high youth unemployment and...

Many countries are witnessing high and rising unemployment, while still suffering from chronic skill shortages in crucial professions as a result of labour market inflexibility, global competition for...

Oh no, I didn’t want to join Groupon at all,” says Bernard van Stekelenburg without an apology.

Job vacancies continued to increase in September, with the rate of growth accelerating to a 13-month high, says the latest monthly report by The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG...

Everyone has individual biases, which are determined by factors such as social environment, upbringing and culture. However, when it comes to the recruitment selection process, these prejudices play a...

The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee has released an independent report on Youth unemployment and the Youth Contract today.

The Paralympics gave us a wonderful opening ceremony and delivered some great performances, as well as gold medals for Team GB.

The prevailing public opinion of banks is, to put it mildly, not a positive one. Stories of major banking firms conducting themselves in an unedifying manner seem to be popping up almost daily.

Anybody visiting the Olympic sites could not help but be impressed with the positivity and friendliness of some 70,000 unpaid volunteers.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Northern Rock crisis, this extended period of instability does not appear to be playing out in the war for talent as one might expect.