Employer hiring forecasts have fallen into negative territory for the first time in 16 years, new research shows.

The Work Foundation has called for the Government to construct a growth strategy based on expanding private-sector jobs in all regions and counties of the UK, in order to tackle the deficit.

Outsourcing in the UK was originally seen as a way of reducing costs and passing clerical and low-level customer contact tasks to another company and often another country. While the practice...

The recession has had significant repercussions on organisations across the globe and as the economy begins to show signs of recovery, the role of the human resources department has never been so...

The National Policing Improvement Agency, which has been targeted by the coalition government's programme of immediate cuts, provides the taxpayer with good value for money, according to its head of...

Job interviews lasting longer than it takes to run a marathon have been slammed by the Graduate Recruitment Bureau.

As the public sector braces itself for across-the-board job cuts, of survey of public sector workers finds 85% of them want career transition services and CV/interview advice to be made compulsory.

HR functions across Whitehall are to be simplified in one of the first acts by the new joint Treasury-Cabinet Office group set up to ensure savings in Government happen quickly.

Good communication and engagement with staff has helped to make the workforce changes needed to safeguard jobs during the recession, according to a new report by the CBI and recruitment experts Harvey...

The 6 billion worth of cuts in public expenditure planned by the chancellor, George Osborne, will damage delivery of front-line services because agency staff, on whom many parts of the public sector...

By chance today I found myself in the middle of a group of Service personnel who had just been presented with bravery awards. Among them was the widow of a bomb disposal expert who was posthumously...

The new Government has confirmed plans to cut 6 billion from the public-sector budget in the coming year by arguing for sustainable reform rather than indiscriminate cuts to staffing and agency...