The number of former students still out of work six months after graduating has dropped from 8.5% to 7.3% in one year, according to the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU).

A Labour government would create 36,000 NHS jobs over the course of the next parliament, Ed Miliband claimed yesterday in his speech at the party's conference in Manchester.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has announced its 250,000 members in England and Wales are to take part in a national strike on 15 October.

Administrators have closed 362 Phones 4u stores, effectively winding up the retail arm of the business and leaving 2,417 staff without jobs.

Barclays has rated top of an online student survey of top undergraduate employers for 2014, RateMyPlacement has said.

Unemployment fell by 468,000 from July 2013 to July 2014, the biggest year-on-year decrease since 1988, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Eight out of every 10 HR functions use social media as at least one part of their recruitment strategy, according to research by online recruitment specialists Konetic.

British companies' hiring intentions for the fourth quarter of 2014 are down two percentage points on the previous quarter – the largest decrease in three years, according to ManpowerGroup.

Nearly half (45%) of employers in London report that the capital is experiencing a skills shortage, according to a report by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and KPMG.

Business has become “disconnected” from society and must get back to its true purpose, according to former Morrisons HR director Norman Pickavance.

The IMA's latest Ipsos MORI poll indicated that demand for interim managers increased by 15 percentage points during the first quarter of 2014. However, the process of hiring an interim manager should...

More than half (52%) of jobseekers are not willing to take on roles under zero-hour contract terms, according to research by totaljobs.com.