Workplace pensions law has changed and every employer with workers in the UK will be required to help more of their workers save for their retirement. The new rules apply to more and more companies each month and it is important for employers to be aware when their staging...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for recruiters in the UK, is launching a new quality standard for recruitment within the education sector today. REC Audited Education is a new audit scheme run by the REC to provide quality assurance of recruitment agencies that supply teaching...

Graduate Prospects is launching a new awards initiative to recognise and reward businesses and universities that demonstrate excellence and innovation in the postgraduate arena. The Prospects Postgraduate Awards will be the only annual event solely dedicated to celebrating the most exciting developments in postgraduate education. There are eight categories,...

According to the CIPD’s Employee Engagement Index1, more than half (55{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) of employees in the voluntary sector feel engaged at work, compared with 41{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} last quarter, despite a backdrop of increasing redundancies (25{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} reporting planned redundancies ahead, a jump of 15 percentage points since last quarter). That’s compared with...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is launching a new Legal Partners scheme to enhance the legal services on offer to REC members. In addition to the existing free legal services, new paid for services including employment tribunal support, document review and tender support, as well as other commercial,...

Set to boost electrification jobs but do we have the skilled labour to meet demand for the ‘biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian era’? We’re seeing increasing skills shortages in many disciplines across this sector. This can be attributed to the nature of the rail industry – large-scale,...

The spectre of local elections, a diminishing lead in the polls and a call to action from the former Labour PM Tony Blair, have seen Ed Miliband and team come under increasing pressure to set out what they would do should Labour win the general election in 2015. Miliband...

The majority of the interim management provider community wants to remain in Europe because they believe being part of the union is good for business. In a recent survey[1] conducted by The Interim Management Association (IMA), which represents the interim management provider industry, 79 per cent of respondents voted...

New research reveals that graduates with a degree in the social sciences demonstrate the most diverse interests in terms of industry sectors they are keen to work in. The study by graduate-jobs.com, the largest independent graduate job board in the UK, shows that social science graduates top the industry...

Our first spotlight event in Bristol brought together MPs and recruiters to shine a light on the challenges of working in the jobs market in Bristol and drew decision makers’ attention to the issues that recruiters face. In just over two weeks’ time we will be holding a similar...

Moving from transactional to transformational people management practices is fundamental to the long-term performance of SMEs. That will be one of the key messages delivered during the CIPD’s first dedicated conference for those responsible for HR within small and medium sized organisations. The Conference, building on the CIPD’s research...

Lack of support from managers is a key contributor to employee’s disengagement in the workplace, a Webrecruit poll has revealed. The poll, taken by 257 respondents, asked ‘what was the biggest thing that affects your motivation at work?’ 30{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of survey respondents attributed their lack of motivation to little...

UK small businesses are rapidly developing e-commerce sites released last week by Freelancer. The survey of 280,000 online jobs found that businesses hiring experts to create an ecommerce site was up 19{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} in the first three months of 2013. The results reveal that British small businesses are moving online...

Today Monster.co.uk pledges publically that it will not support the advertisement of unpaid internships on its site. The announcement comes just weeks after HM Revenue and Customs launched an inquiry to investigate 100 companies believed to be breaking the law through their use of unpaid interns. It is also...

A recent survey of UK graduates has revealed that 34{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} have claimed jobseekers allowance since graduating whilst 21{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} have been looking for work for as long as 12 months. Almost a fifth (19{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) have applied for more than 100 jobs and many as a quarter (25{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) have not been...