Businesses recovering from the recession are turning to the UK's estimated 1.4 million freelancers to fill their identified skills gap and cut costs normally associated with permanent staff.
Employees will be able to take their criminal records check results with them when they move jobs as part of a major overhaul of the vetting and barring regime.
Working women are less likely than men to have financial back up should they be unable to work.
More than half of private sector respondents to a recent survey admitted they do not know what skills their employers are likely to demand from them in the next five years.
After serving for three years as a private in the Intelligence Corps, Daniel August (pictured) left the Army in May 2008, unsure how to get a new job.
Business sectors are competing to attract young people onto apprenticeship schemes in a bid to increase homegrown talent and benefit their bottom lines.
Employees in the public sector are feeling the pressure of the Government's spending cuts, with more than one in three thinking it is likely they will lose their job and seven in 10 having had their...
As we are stepping out of one of the deepest recessions in history, it is an uncertain time in the investment banking industry. Nevertheless, contrary to popular belief, there are signs of a recovery...
Increasing numbers of jobseekers are resorting to fabricating their CVs in order to find work, according to background screening company Kroll Background Worldwide.
Immigration minister Damian Green is considering reducing the length of time overseas graduates can seek skilled work in the UK in order to keep jobs for UK graduates.
A culture of long working hours is leading to a rise in sickness, stress and industrial action, according to a survey of 550 senior HR professionals representing a combined workforce of more than two...
Only 33% of HRDs say they are 'good' or 'excellent' at coming up with innovative strategies for finding and recruiting new talent, according to Alexander Mann's Future Fit Recruitment Report (part 2).
