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The Barclays Employers’ Survey 2015, which questioned over 660 UK businesses1, has revealed that mid-size businesses will be leading on job creation and wage growth in 2015. Against a positive backdrop of continued falling unemployment and wage growth outstripping inflation in recent months, 67% are planning to take on new staff (compared to 62% in 2014) and 82% are set to increase wages, a significant increase on last year (67%)

New research1 from leading recruitment specialist Robert Half UK reveals that workplace discussions on politics are heating up in the run up to this year’s General Election

Only 8% of HR heads fully believe the LinkedIn profiles they see, and 29% feel they are likely to be less honest than a CV

More than half (52%) of UK companies have increased the number of female IT professionals they employ over the past five years, according to new research1 from specialist IT recruiter Robert Half Technology. UK Chief Information Officers (CIOs) say the growth in employment of women in technology is being largely driven by mentoring programmes (cited by 34%), greater enrolment in technology education (28%) and government initiatives (17%)

Since Social Media first started allowing businesses to create their own accounts, there has been more and more discussion of how Social Media is "the future of marketing," "the answer to customer and employee engagement," and yes, "the key to recruiting in the 21st century."

Leadership development has become the new top priority for HR professionals in the UK in 2015, and minimising succession risk their 2nd HR priority

Responding to a report published today by Dr Ros Altmann, the government’s Business Champion for Older Workers, about the challenges faced by older workers, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) announces plans for an ‘Older Workers Pledge’. To be developed with Age UK, the country’s largest charity working with and for older people, it will aid the professional body for the recruitment industry raise awareness of the issue and champion best practice

Consumers prefer to do business with businesses employing apprentices, a new report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has revealed

Regional jobs recovery continues with positive start to 2015 for Cork, Limerick and the South East

New research by a website dedicated to spreading awareness of the opportunities that exist outside of university has discovered that over half of teachers within the UK don't educate their students on apprenticeships, vocational training and the others options readily available to them for when they complete their studies

A positive year ahead for the recruitment industry as thirty-one percent of agencies predict growth of 25 percent or more this year

IPSE, the association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, has today reacted to the news that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defence have been fined a total of £1.5m, after the departments were found to have failed to seek adequate assurances that contractors were being used appropriately

Brightwork Group, the Glasgow and Edinburgh based recruitment specialist, saw turnover rise by 3.6 per cent to £32.65m in the year to December 2014

Two in five (40%) of UK employers have seen their sickness absence rates improve over the last 12 months, according to new research from Group Risk Development (GRiD), the trade body for the group risk industry

Business awareness of the auto enrolment charge cap is increasing among SMEs, but fewer are taking action to ensure they are prepared, according to the latest research from Close Brothers Asset Management