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Speaking on the day that the government has introduced caps on NHS spend on agency staff, following a final decision taken on Friday, just five working days after the close of the official consultation to which many recruitment agencies responded with concerns, REC director of policy Tom Hadley says

Deloitte has introduced gaming technology to its recruitment process to help identify people with skills in innovation, creativity and problem solving

New research from Monster.co.uk has revealed that half of Brits (49%) have never called in sick to work, with only a quarter (27%) admitting to having taken just one day off in their current job or most recent job. This follows a warning by MPs earlier this year that employees are under increasing pressure not to take sick leave when they’re ill

Few would argue that technology has revolutionised the graduate recruitment industry, making it more efficient and effective for all those involved. Engaging and attracting the very top talent has never been more crucial to organisational success, especially with candidates increasingly expecting forward thinking companies to have the tools and technologies in place to stand out above its competition

With the National Minimum Wage increasing from April 2016, Provident wanted to see how far Brits can make their monthly salaries stretch. Out of nearly 2,000 respondents, 19% admitted that they struggle financially within two weeks of getting paid and 40% don’t save any money on a monthly basis

Professional recruitment firms now have 6% more vacancies on their books than this time last year according to new survey data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). This is in line with the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which reveals that overall employment levels increased by 177,000 in the three months to September.

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares to rubber stamp a £16.6bn cash grab from 1.6 million contractors across the UK, a leading accountancy firm has called for an urgent rethink warning the move will hit British industry hardest

10th March2016 | The Grange St Pauls, London

North West-based recruitment agency, Meridian Business Support, has triumphed at the prestigious Recruitment International awards, collecting the Best Recruitment Campaign award

NCVO and the CIPD launch joint research calling for companies to collaborate with charities and make successful corporate volunteering a reality

The worst effects of the recession - unemployment, underemployment and inactivity – risk becoming ‘permanent features’ of the European economy, according to a new report published by IPPR today as part of JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills at Work programme

Large corporations, entrepreneurs, and startups increasingly struggle to retain great employees. They see the same cycle repeat over and over again: an energetic new employee comes on productive and full of new ideas for several months, but after the first eighteen months the employee stops taking initiative, their attendance and reliability changes and their work quality suffers

10th March2016 | The Grange St Pauls, London

Today, Jobsite announces collaboration with travel time search platform, iGeolise. The alliance, which is a first between any of the major UK job boards, is set to revolutionise candidate sourcing. The technology allows recruiters to locate prospective candidates using real time transport routes to a specific location rather than calculating distance as the crow flies

Hiring Hub has secured a £100,000 grant from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to part-fund its development of an intelligent, cloud-based recruitment system designed to help SMEs easily source and manage third-party recruitment suppliers, and their end-to-end recruitment process