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Number of organisations measuring return on investment increases by over 20%

A premier global AESC member firm upgrades to leading edge, cloud-based executive search technology from Invenias, to expand its global delivery capability

Combined Company Sets a New Benchmark for Talent Assessment

As the UK jobs market rebalances in the wake of public sector cuts and private sector growth

Elevate Direct, the recruitment tool that automates the sourcing of contractors for in-house recruiters has been shortlisted for the ‘Global Recruiter Best Innovation Award 2014

Ford Retail, which operates 65 Ford dealer sites in the UK, has redefined what makes a good sales executive after analysing the personality traits and abilities of its top salespeople

HRsmart, a leading provider of global unified talent management solutions, reported strong sales in the first quarter of 2014 with new bookings that surpassed the fourth quarter of 2013 and representing a 221% increase over the year agperiod

In a recent poll to find out which social network users favoured to use when finding a new job, Linkedin came out on top. 41% of respondents said they would prefer to use it over Facebook, Twitter or Google+

For the third time in a row, the NHS was voted by undergraduates as the most popular graduate employer in a survey of nearly 30,000 undergraduates conducted by international research firm trendence – the trendence Graduate Barometer 2014

Puzzle publisher creates solution for ‘like’ epidemic sweeping the nation

Recruitment technology provider, Recruitive, has reported figures for March which supports those recently released by the Office of National Statistics; a drop in unemployment to below 7% for the first time since the recession

Two recruitment companies have earned places on the 15th annual Sunday Times Profit Track 100. The league table ranks Britain’s privately-owned companies with the fastest-growing profits over the last three years of available audited accounts and was published this Sunday gone

Have you ever been approached by a recruiter on social media for your dream job role? A recent study conducted by recruitment company, JobsTheWord, has revealed that candidates hired using ‘passive recruitment’ stay on average 21% longer in their positions than those hired via traditional channels

School students are being told to look at careers websites rather than being given proper face-to-face vocational advice, the British Sociological Association annual conference in Leeds heard today

ONS employment figures only tell half the story