UK businesses are failing to engage with the workforce through social media channels, damaging their reputation as an employer of choice and their ability to attract talent, according to new research. The survey shows that the reputation of businesses is increasingly forged online, with half (50.7%) of UK employees...

Following last weeks publication of ‘The Growth Factory’, a report exploring ways to rebalance the economy and backed by some high profile MPs, Anna Marie Detert, director in KPMG’s People and Change advisory team, comments: “With the economy shrinking more than was first thought in the first quarter of...

The latest EU legislation comes into force on 26th May 2012, and has potential consequences for every job board and recruitment website. The crux of the new law is that every website targeting users in any EU country must EXPLICITLY provide an OPT-IN to accept cookies being written to...

A survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has found that recruiters have a professional image in the eyes of the majority of the British public, and that people’s good opinion of recruitment consultants increases further when they turn to them for help with their own search for...