The CIPD has warned that news headlines associating voluntary unpaid work experience with “slave labour”, is in danger of denying young people a route into permanent employment, by discouraging...
Business leaders from Adecco, Cisco, Business in the Community and Deloitte have called on the Government, educators and employers to work together to ensure the employees of tomorrow have the...
There was an 11.8% decrease in the use of temporary labour in the last quarter of 2011 in the public sector, when compared to the same time in 2010 and this has had a “disproportionate effect” on...
HR and marketing, as business functions, have a lot more in common than might be apparent at first glance.
Workers are being trapped in career silos because they don’t believe they can cross sector or industry boundaries, according to data published this morning from the Hays Career Outlook Survey.
Law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has entered into a partnership with the Faculty of Laws at UCL (University College London) to provide two scholarships per year for law students from socially...
There is a perception gap between the skills employers are looking for from prospective employees and the skills jobseekers believe to be important, according to Learndirect.
So many young people now attend Britain’s Universities that it is becoming prohibitively expensive and difficult for employers to sift through a growing surge of CV’s marked “graduate”.
The deputy prime minister has called on businesses to sign up to the government’s £1 billion Youth Contract so they are ready to offer the jobs to young people in April.
Permanent vacancies have 1.55% month on month to 1,967 and permanent salaries up 0.08% on average, according to the Talent Spotlight Report from Badenoch & Clark.
Is it time for human resources professionals to go beyond the ‘toe-dipping’ stage with social media recruitment?
The first quarter of 2012 will be the most difficult quarter for the jobs market since the recession, as the number of private sector firms surveyed planning to make redundancies increases, according...
