As part of ongoing research into the employment habits of small businesses across the UK, an independent online HR consultancy polled 1,163 members of staff from separate businesses, each with less than 20 employees, to find out more about the hiring process each company had in place; in order...

A survey of recently graduated women working within the field of IT has revealed that female workers may benefit the industry by offering a stronger set of soft skills compared to male employees. The results of the study, conducted by recruitment site Target Jobs, revealed that 56% of the...

The continuing Eurozone crisis has caused a sharp fall in confidence among senior business leaders and the possibility of a second banking crisis is weighing heavily on corporate sentiment, the CBI said today (Sunday). On the eve of its flagship Annual Conference, the CBI revealed the findings of new...

Cloud-computing is an innovation destined to foster wealth and enterprise on an epic scale in Britain – a “gateway to explode entrepreneurship”. This is the message which emerged from an appropriately fog-shrouded Tower 42 in the city of London early today, where some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and...

Commenting on the UK unemployment statistics showing more than one million young people out of work, Managing Director of Manpower UK, Mark Cahill said: “It’s all too easy to just gloomily sink our heads into our hands but there are still opportunities for young people with the right attitude....