PricewaterhouseCoopers offers A Level students an alternative to university

Against a backdrop of mounting student debt, reduced university places, budget cuts and increasing graduate unemployment, A Level student entry training schemes could re-emerge to offer an alternative...

Adidas Group moves to consolidate global recruitment strategy

Adidas Group has brought its recruitment in-house and launched an online recruitment solution across 100 locations worldwide in order to achieve an over arching global resourcing strategy.

Generation Y poses organisational and technological challenges for employers

Employers have been challenged to think more about Generation Y coming into their workplaces.

Company to recruit hot-shot employees with a round of golf

A Southampton-based company will be finding out if applicants are on par by asking them to complete a round of mini golf as the final part of the selection process.

Emergency Budget: Tax breaks on first 10 employees start-up firms in less affluent areas take on

The Government is to offer new firms in Britain's less affluent areas 900 million in tax breaks in order to hire new staff.

NATS adopts online checking test in recruitment of air traffic controllers

Air traffic control services provider NATS has launched an online checking test to recruit the highest quality candidates for its air traffic controller (ATC) roles.

Support for jobs will disappear with planned public spending cuts

Future jobs are the biggest casualty as the Government took the axe to 2 billion worth of public spending yesterday.

Rise in number of financial sector job applicants who fail to disclose criminal records

The number of job applicants to the financial services sector, who fail to disclose a criminal conviction, has trebled, according to new research.

Record numbers economically inactive

Unemployment has now reached 7.9% (2.47 million) according to latest figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics, and record numbers of Britons are now classed as economically...

Businesses confident of hiring soon

Despite record high unemployment figures released today, businesses say they are cautiously optimistic about hiring.

Employers are becoming more confident about hiring, according to GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey

The job market for new business school graduates remains difficult, but there are clear signs that employers are becoming increasingly confident about the economy and more eager to hire, according to...

CV misrepresentation is rising, according to a report by PeopleChecking

Employers have been given new warnings CV fraud is on the increase, following the findings of a new report.