Recruitment & retention

Strong performances in maths and sciences lead to best A-level results since 2010 if figures for pandemic years are discounted.

Indeed survey reveals that employers and workers are more appreciative of skills such as critical thinking and writing gained from academic courses rather than the direct skills learned.

Fewer than half of UK headquartered businesses are ready to meet the requirements of the European Union Pay Transparency directive.

More than half of UK professionals are quitting new roles because they do not meet their expectations, new research has revealed.

Former head sent a trainee who was in her first year of teaching at a junior school in King’s Lynn, Norfolk countless messages from the school’s social media accounts.

HR in August is all about minimum temperatures, clothing, holidays, temp cover, interns and free lollipops. Oh, and ‘lazy girl’ jobs. Whatever they are.

Young people are less interested in studying for a degree, the latest figures from Ucas show.

Hiring intentions in London are outpacing the rest of the UK, but the REC believes it could be encouraging news for the whole economy.

Care assistant who failed to disclose a murder charge has won her claim for unfair dismissal at Edinburgh Employment Tribunal.

The BBC is facing questions over why it continued to pay news presenter Huw Edwards his salary for five months after his arrest for possessing indecent images of children in November 2023.

US bank Wells Fargo is facing a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by conducting ‘sham interviews’ for non-white and female...

Half of retail employees in the UK are at risk of leaving their jobs this winter, according to research from the Retail Trust and consulting firm AlixPartners.

UK job vacancies fell to their lowest level in June since March 2021, according to data from Adzuna.

Delivery company Evri will hire 9,000 new staff after a multi-billion takeover by Apollo Global.

Most jobs in the UK will be enhanced by AI with only a small minority of roles being axed, according to new Google-commissioned research.