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...