Employers in the business and professional services sector increased headcount at the fastest rate for seven years in the past quarter, according to a report by the Confederation of British Industry...

Pay rises are twice as high for employees in the private sector than in the public, according to research by reward specialists XpertHR.

People looking to progress to senior positions within their organisations should be able to find alternatives to management roles, according to IT firm T-Systems HR director Sarah Sandbrook.

Government reforms to welfare and benefits hit working families harder than those out of work, according to research by TUC.

Two-thirds of graduates regret the first job they take when they start work, according to global research by CEB.

Employers and industry experts have reacted positively to the government's Get In, Go Far apprenticeship campaign.

A lack of diversity would deter 69% of young people (aged between 12 and 25 years old) from working for a particular company, according to research by social enterprise MyKindaCrowd.

Companies recruiting people under-25 place more importance on a candidate's attitude than their qualifications, according to a report by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

Lancaster University's Work Foundation has criticised the government's "watered down" implementation of the Raising the Participant Age (RPA) policy.

The head of the UK Statistics Authority has challenged claims made by prime minister David Cameron that new jobs are increasingly being taken by UK nationals rather than immigrants.

The 2015 Baku European Games, Europe's first Olympics-style sporting event, has launched a global recruitment programme for around 200 graduates.

Direct Line has announced the appointment of Simon Linares as its HR director.