Doughnut retailer, Krispy Kreme UK, is to create 500 new jobs as part of expansion exercise in a bid to double its UK presence by 2015.

Tesco is to create 20,000 new jobs in the UK over the next two years through a “significant investment” in customer service, refreshing existing stores and opening new ones.

Gazprom Energy, the UK-based retail arm of Russia’s biggest firm Gazprom, is defying the economic downturn and recruiting for more than 30 roles at its Manchester headquarters.

Job opportunities across the country rose more sharply in February than in January while salaries are back to the level of 23 months ago, according to recruitment firm Reed.

Campaigning group Professions for Good has launched a Social Mobility Toolkit for the Professions, the first common framework to measure the progress of social mobility within the workplace.

Employers are calling for more from the next generation of office workers as traditional skill sets in corporate Britain change.

Employers have been warned not to put all their trust in social media sites, when recruiting.

At Britvic, we have just opened our search for applicants to our 2012 apprenticeship programme.

With sights set on hiring 15 developers in 15 days, software company Atlassian is heading to London to launch a European "Recruitment Roadshow" bus tour.

With no miraculous recovery evident in the economy, we seem set for years of slow growth and raised unemployment levels. So where does this leave recruiters?

Five months in, the employment minister Chris Grayling (pictured) has welcomed promising results from the Government’s Work Programme.

The number of job vacancies advertised this year suggests the job market is bouncing back, according to Adecco.