Following news from the CIPD this week that UK employment is expected to continue to grow, Tom Lovell, group managing director of specialist recruitment consultancy REED, explains how they are also seeing this positive trend in the market: “Reed’s latest figures show continued incremental growth in the jobs market,...

Employment Minister Mark Hoban visited the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)’s offices on Friday to sign a partnership agreement between the REC and Jobcentre Plus. REC and Jobcentre Plus have renewed an agreement that their organisations will work together sharing their expertise and knowledge to help employers and job...

In the first agency study of the digital marketing sector, digital marketing recruitment specialists The Candidate quizzed dozens of industry professionals across a variety of positions and levels of seniority. Their findings show that there is more to the skills shortage than just money as a series of structural...

More than nine in ten employers in Asia are facing difficulties recruiting and retaining talent and an inability to match candidates’ salary expectations is the top reason firms in the region struggle to fill roles. That’s according to a survey of more than 1,000 employers across Hong Kong, China,...

Almost half of UK entrepreneurs (48{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) predict the enterprise environment will improve in the next two years and just 2{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} forecast any further decline, according to new research released today by Youth Business International (YBI) to mark the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 hosted by YBI in partnership...

Over a quarter of GB employees (26{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) have no long-term career plan and 39{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} fail to plan ahead at all in terms of career goals, according to new research released today (Monday 5 November 2012) by career management experts Fairplace. The survey suggests that many employees are clocking in...

40{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of employees report that individuals whose behaviour consistently goes against the values of the organisations they work for are either left unpunished or are rewarded or promoted, according to research launched on the first day of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) annual conference and exhibition....

The pay gap between men and women is at risk of widening for the first time on record, a leading pay equality campaign group warns.   The Fawcett Society says that women still earn 14.9{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} less on average than men for the same job.    But it says this gap could...

New research suggests the bosses of top firms made an average of £4m a year.    But Incomes Data Services, which compiled the figures, says pay and bonuses have hardly risen at all.   Instead the increase is due to a rise in value of long term incentive plans which have...

Okay, there are no cold hard facts to back this last one up but we probably still think it’s true, especially if your life has less office politics, a better work life balance and you generally enjoy your work more. According to over 1,000 contractors who completed SJD’s biannual...

The UK’s demand for a flexible workforce remains strong, according to new evidence from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC) latest JobsOutlook survey, a monthly poll of employer hiring intentions. The research confirms that, despite fears at the time, the introduction of Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) in October 2011...

At the recent Youth Enterprise Live show groups of young adults heard some strong advice about what it will take for British companies and British workers to succeed in the workplace of the future. Dr Carl Rohde, an eminent futurologist, warned that hard work and competitive prices alone won’t...

Linkedin, the world’s largest professional network, with more than 175 million members worldwide including 10 million in the UK, today revealed that Google is the UK’s most sought after employer, with BBC, Unilever, Shell and BP rounding out the top five. The new employer rankings, based on the billions...