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Glassdoor investigates job seekers’ salary inflation with 5.5 million employees prepared to inflate it by almost £4,000

Gen Y are worst offenders and job title inflation is on the rise

15% of business drivers would change jobs if they had to work with driverless cars in the future, according to new research from Masternaut, a pan-European provider of fleet telematics solutions

Graduates are struggling with the transition from university to employment, with just 43% reporting that they felt prepared for working life, reveals a new study1

One in 10 new recruits are regarded as a ‘poor hiring decision’ according to the latest report, Management Insights: How to avoid common hiring mistakes from leading recruitment specialists, Robert Half UK, with 70% of HR directors admitting that they have hired someone who did not meet expectations1.

Four in ten employers (39 per cent) have ‘no capacity’ to take on more work without more staff, and a further 56 per cent have only ‘a little’ capacity, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)

theExMILITARYjob’s research into ex-military family, careers and employees have found in their latest survey that 56% of companies do not currently employ ex-military personnel into their organisations showing that there could be a lot more done by everyone to help our ex-military back to work

Talk of strong wage growth might be premature, with private-sector employers planning across-the-board pay increases to staff of just 2% in 2015, according to the latest data from pay analysts at XpertHR

Commenting on today's labour market statistics, Geraint Johnes, director at Lancaster University’s Work Foundation, said

Enquiries for interim management are increasing, finds the latest polling data from the IMA, the body that represents the interim management provider industry[1]. In its latest Ipsos MORI survey[2], the IMA highlights increased demand towards the end of 2014 - with the average number of enquiries per member up by almost a quarter (23 per cent) for Q4, compared to the same period in 2013

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."