Young unemployed's unused digital skills, could be worth £6.7 billion to business, claims O2

The unused digital skills sitting within the community of one million unemployed young people is estimated by UK businesses to be worth £6.7 billion, research from O2 reveals.

One in five unemployed young people claim finding a job in the next year is 'unachievable', warns Prince's Trust and RBS report

One in five unemployed young people claim that finding a job in the next year is ‘unachievable’, according to a Prince's Trust and RBS report released alongside the launch of the A-Z of Young...

National Audit Office uncovers 'weaknesses' in DWP contract with Atos to carry out fit-to-work assessments

Auditors have found "weaknesses" in the contract between the government and Atos, the private firm paid to carry out fit-to-work medical assessments, according to the BBC.

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TUC study uncovers widening North-South pay divide and lack of Government action to re-balance the economy

The Government is failing in its pledge to rebalance the economy, which is now more dependent than ever on financial services, according to the latest TUC economy report published today.

Dental firm launches iPhone app to recruit 'new generation' of dentists

Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) has launched a smartphone app to help dental workers and clinicians find positions at the group more easily.?

Lack of holiday cover leads to stress and anxiety for line managers, poll of 200 HRDs suggests

HR directors are reluctant to bring in extra help to cover staff holidays with 70% delegating tasks to other employees to manage workloads.

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A level results: young people are facing toughest employement outlook since 1994, claims TUC

School leavers may be anxiously awaiting A level results this morning, but the TUC has claimed young people finishing school, college or university this summer are facing the toughest outlook since...

Dropping levels of unemployment ‘almost impossible to explain’, says Work Foundation

Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported the unemployment rate was 8.0% of the economically active population, down 0.2% on the quarter. There were 2.56 million unemployed people,...

The old model of ‘graduate recruitment’ is dead: why few employers are winning the war for talent

In 1906 the economist Vilfred Pareto developed his ‘Pareto Principle’, more commonly known as the 80-20 rule.

Unemployment falls by 46,000 to 2.56 million, ONS reports

Employment levels in the UK are continuing to rise, according to the Office for National Statistics, with the employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 at 71% for the past quarter of 2012 (April to...

HMRC to hire 1,000 additional contact centre staff to ensure more calls are answered

HM Revenue and Customs is to hire an additional 1,000 contact centre staff, in a bid to ensure 90% of calls are answered, its chief executive Lin Homer, has promised.

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Volatile climate means only 4% of people applying for graduate schemes will secure their place, recruiter IntaPeople warns

As young people contend with one of the worst job markets the UK has ever seen, a poll of 3,140 newly graduated and final year students by recruiter IntaPeople showed over two thirds (69%) have...

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