Almost half (45%) of HR directors admit they know of companies where potential CEOs go through fewer checks than graduate candidates during recruitment, according to research by HireRight.

The experience employers give potential employees is getting worse. All the figures show that while we spend a huge amount of time creating employer brands, streamlining recruitment processes and...

The leadership team organising the inaugural European Games is being recruited on a “one degree of separation” principle, according to the organisation’s HR director Rob Clarke.

HR magazine's sister job site HRjobs.co.uk is a finalist in the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs) for 2014, alongside sites such as Indeed and Monster.

Almost one in six (16%) global employees sees London as the most desirable city to work in, according to a survey by Totaljobs.com and Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Most employers do not see a link between hiring migrant workers and damaging youth employment, according to a report by the CIPD.

Average advertised salaries saw a year-on-year increase of 1.9% up to August 2014, according to research by Adzuna.

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.