Employment programmes should focus more on improving potential employees’ skills, according to speakers at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) National Conference in London.

Employment minister Esther McVey yesterday admitted she has not contributed towards her apprentice’s training costs, despite skills minister Matt Hancock urging employers to do so less than one hour...

The Institute of Recruiters (IOR) is to offer the first alternative HR qualification to the CIPD.

Recruitment company Cordant Group has seen an increase in employers dismissing job applicants early because they are seen to be “over-qualified” for the role. HR director Ken Steers explains why this...

Britain's food and grocery sector is to extend the long-running employment programme Feeding Britain's Future into schools.

Business leaders love spouting the old cliché ‘our people are our greatest asset’. Although it may ring true in many organisations, why is it that the greatest asset is also one of the hardest to...

The engineering sector faces a skills shortage, mainly caused by skilled workers retiring and a lack of understanding of the industry among young people.

Implementing a company-wide training programme has revealed that different employee generations do not have learning styles wedded to their age, according to Santander people and talent director Simon...

The latest bon mot of Lucy Adams, former BBC HR director, is that “Appraisals don’t work”, In her view, they simply serve to strike fear in the hearts of employees.

An increasing number of businesses are measuring financial returns on learning and development (L&D) programmes, according to CIPD research.

There is a "gulf of expectation" between employers and contractors over how long the hiring process should take, according to a white paper by recruitment specialists Robert Walters.

The lack of young people in engineering is disheartening. However, it’s not enough to feel disappointed – one has to ask why this is the case, otherwise you can implicitly become part of the problem,...