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Comment on Government Graduate Labour Market Stats

Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna, comments:

When it comes to recruiting ‘Digital Natives’, a generation raised in the post-digital, media saturated world who grew up with computers and the internet as an ever-present and natural extension of their ‘real’ life world, the recruitment process for those seeking to employ them, can look very different from the traditional face to face interactions used to recruit previous generations

From making connections, to finding company information, or spotting new job openings before they’re advertised, there’s no doubt that social media now plays an integral role in the job search.

Advice from Kloodle on how to protect your online reputation for job hunting

Ian Burke, director of totaljobs.com, said

How linking CSR activities can benefit Learning & Development and HR Strategies

Disruption has been a favorite of ‘thought leaders’ in every industry since the publication of Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma’ in 1997 (coincidentally the year I entered the job board world)

Ian Burke, director of totaljobs.com, said

By Ian Dowd, Marketing Director at NGA HR

The costs associated with employment tribunals and any appeals were previously the responsibility of the taxpayer, this was the position until the 29 July 2013 when the Government introduced fees for such claims made to the employment tribunal

Reacting to the publication, today, of the latest UK employment figures, which have seen unemployment levels fall by 115,000 to 1.96 million, Bernard Brown, partner and head of business services at KPMG, says

Gerwyn Davies, Labour Market Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) comments as follows on official labour market statistics published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS):

The proposed new regulation requiring agencies and employment businesses to advertise UK jobs in the UK, if they are to be advertised abroad, is one step closer following the government’s announcement that it intends to press ahead with new regulations by the end of this year.

Mike Kelly, head of Living Wage at KPMG, comments on the news that 31% of university graduates working as interns are doing so for no pay, with a six month unpaid internship costing a single person living in London a minimum of £926 a month