The CBI is calling for a radical shake up of schools from nursery to sixth form to ensure all young people achieve their potential. In a new report out today (Monday), the CBI warns the education system fosters a cult of the average; too often failing to stretch the...

The latest set of unemployment figures from the Office of National Statistics shows a further downward trend. Unemployment was down by 49,000 on the last quarter, at 2.51m people or 7.8 {6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}. However although there has also been a reduction in youth unemployment, this is still worryingly high at...

The fourth and final edition of Graduate Career for 2012 is free with The Times yesterday with a focus on technology. Produced in association with graduate recruitment website Milkround, the November issue also includes a spotlight on graduate career opportunities in East Anglia along with the usual blend of...

Commenting on the latest ONS Labour Market statistics released today, Gerwyn Davies, Labour Market Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), comments: “Employers have continued to focus on keeping labour costs down and a combination of pay restraint and a higher proportion of part-time and temporary...

Moving your employee to a new position within your company can be just as tricky, if not more, as recruiting someone new. Knowing the candidate beforehand often makes us more subjective. Patrick Leguide, founder and CEO of Central Test, describes five HR syndromes that could lead to possible mishaps...

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...