recruitment

With a continuing high level of unemployment among graduates, Poppy Ring asks: are universities adequately equipping students with the transferable skills required for the workplace?

Despite high levels of domestic unemployment, organisations are turning to both migrant workers and offshore outsourcers in a bid to plug UK skills gaps as the economy starts to recover.

While workers’ use of social media is costing UK business £14 billion a year in lost productivity, nearly two thirds of graduate recruiters are wary of using the channel because of fears over damage to reputation.

Unemployment is disproportionately hitting young people and older workers but official jobless figures appear to indicate that the situation is only set to get worse.

Age UK says the coalition government should do more to tackle age discrimination if it is to push through proposed benefit reforms.

Three out of five employers believe that personnel with a less academic background are more equipped to contribute to the business from day one.

The chairman of Reed specialist recruitment talks recruiting, attraction and talent with Charlie Duff.

Using social networking in the recruitment process, or social recruiting, is a cost-effective way to target the emerging generation of workers.

Despite the "war for talent" being bandied about since 1997, many companies still take a reactive approach to talent attraction.

Employers are being urged to take advantage of ‘golden hello’ recruitment and training subsidies before an expected government review puts their future in jeopardy.