Work experience is more important today than it has ever been, according to the director general of the CBI.

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McDonald's expects as many as 6,000 of its vacancies could be filled by long-term unemployed people this year following the nationwide launch of a partnership with job centres.

Tesco has calculated 20% of the 10,000 jobs it plans to create in 2009 will go to working mothers.

As unemployment soars above two million, Save the Children is planning to realign its recruitment strategy in order to attract high-performance candidates.

More than nine out of 10 CVs (94%) do not make it through to the next stage of the recruitment process.

School leavers aged 16 and 17 have the highest employment rate - 28% in the last quarter of 2008, and rising - according to Barnardo's.

Almost half (49%) of business managers confess age and gender does have a bearing on their decision to recruit someone and 81% say they would ask female job applicants if they plan to have children,...

The main teaching union is opposing a new government initiative to allow people switching to a career in teaching to train to qualify in just six months rather than a year.

Activity in online recruitment showed expansion in February after four months of contraction, according to the Monster Employment Index.

Staff made redundant 'at a moment's notice' by one hotel in Manchester were recruited by a competitor within three days.

In 2008 three times as many non-EU IT workers entered the UK as did during the dotcom boom earlier this decade - despite thousands of IT workers being made redundant in the downturn.