In a recent interview with Mike Walters, John Lewis Partnership’s waste and recycling manager, he ­predicted that in 20 years’ time there will be no such thing called “waste”.

Over half of organisations (59%) have rejected a potential candidate based on cultural fit, research from assessment and development consultancy Cubiks has found.

How can HR departments find the best staff? We look at the many options, ranging from tracking on the latest social media platforms to hiring consultants and posting on job boards. And as for that old...

Employers are not engaging with the Government’s policy for tackling youth unemployment, a survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has found.

More jobs are being advertised in the UK but at a lower average salary than a year ago, according to the latest UK employment market report by jobs search engine Adzuna.

Nearly 900,000 people sent on the Government's controversial Work Programme have still not found a job, according to figures published today by the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA).

The majority of employers are planning to take on more permanent workers in the next three months despite a slight dip in employer confidence, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey from the...

Nearly 5,000 army personnel are expected to lose their jobs today, in the latest round of redundancies following the 2010 defence review.

Few schoolchildren or students hanker for a career in HR, which suggests the profession has an image problem. How can HR ensure it's a career of choice?

The Government's controversial Work Programme has been hailed a success by minister for employment, Mark Hoban.

This week we have run a series of features, which looked at the findings of research into the attitudes of working mothers and the ways in which they feel employers could support them. Now we would...

There was a time when the annual HR calendar was arranged around a comfortable, familiar cycle: wakes weeks in the summer; the graduate milk round in the autumn; and the CIPD conference in Harrogate....