Skills shortages

How can net migration be reduced, as the government wants, while addressing UK skills shortages?

T-level industry placements will be able to be completed remotely under government reforms announced this week.

Government unveils biggest reforms to employment support for a generation with the publication of its Get Britain Working white paper.

Engineering, infrastructure and property firm Kier Group’s new recruitment system has seen it win the Personnel Today Candidate Experience Award.

Suzanne Treen explains how employers facing skills gaps can still gain a competitive edge by using strategic immigration.

Abolition of the sponsorship system would address imbalance in power between workers and employers, finds study.

Next week’s Budget must avoid imposing fresh costs on business in the wake of the Employment Rights Bill, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation has warned.

House of Lords committee finds companies fear investing in training because of the risk of losing staff to other employers.

The energy skills passport will be launched in January, and will help the offshore wind industry with recruitment by identifying transferable skills.

September saw a further fall in the number of permanent staff placements, new figures show, as businesses await the new UK government's first Budget.

UK employers have lost confidence in government skills initiatives, according to research from O’Reilly.

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A tightening UK jobs market saw competition for new roles reach a three-year peak in August.

The Home Office has issued further details of how it intends to reduce the flow of migrant workers into the UK.

Skills England publishes first report, ‘setting the scene’ for its role as ‘the driving force’ behind the much-needed upskilling of the economy.