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Sick days are costing UK business nearly £29bn a year as UK workers take more than four times as many days off work due to sickness as their global counterparts, according to new research by PwC

Less than 1% (1,835) of UK graduates are known to be working in unpaid internships six months after leaving university, reports the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU)

Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of employers agree weaknesses in leadership and management in the UK are holding back company growth, according to new research* published by Cranfield School of Management and learndirect

1st October 2013 | The Grange City Hotel, London

In a recent article published by The Wall Street Journal, it was reported that 85% of Fortune 1000 executives have projects planned or underway for getting more business value out of data their companies generate and collect. A recent Gartner report projects that Big Data will account for $34 billion of IT spending globally this year alone

According to new survey data, nearly three in five freelancers cite the possibility of earning more money and getting more work as the main reasons they decided to go freelance. This equates to more than 935,000 freelancers in the UK today[CJ1]

SiteVisibility’s Director of Strategy adds the Econsultancy and NMA top five most influential people to his growing list of accolades

Eight week scheme to provide up to 10 young jobseekers with opportunity to work in London’s cutting edge technology sector

Compliance issues and concerns about umbrella providers were two of the key issues discussed at Recruitment Leaders - the debating forum set up by Brabners, Outsauce, Saffery Champness and RBS

Dillistone Group Plc (www.dillistonegroup.com), the AIM quoted parent of Dillistone Systems (www.dillistone.com) and Voyager Software (www.voyage.co.uk), has today announced the acquisition of FCP Internet (FCP), supplier of the evolve™ SaaS application used by hundreds of recruiters around the World (www.evolvedb.co.uk)

Adecco Group – the UK’s largest recruitment consultancy – this week announces plans to recruit 160 recruitment consultants during the remainder of 2013 across its professional and technology staffing businesses

LinkedIn report reveals budgets and priorities of UK recruiters

After a long period of depression and gloom, the UK jobs market is beginning to show real signs of recovery

“Recruitment agencies are spoilt for choice when it comes to day-to-day funding, but significant transactions require a specialist level of support,” says Miles Lloyd, CEO of Outsauce, explaining the rationale behind the company’s new Corporate Financing Proposition

Freelancer.co.uk today announced that it had broken through the 8 million user mark, the same day as it launched 10 new languages. The new user total now surpasses the combined value of all its nearest competitors