We’re sleeping on the job before we’ve even got it, according to the latest research* from Monster.co.uk.  The survey of UK jobseekers has found that 40 per cent of respondents get bored during job interviews. With more than one in ten (14 per cent) admitting to always being bored...

Yesterday’s REC Skills Summit saw leading business figures from across the UK come together to discuss the challenges of equipping both current workforces, and the next generation, with the skills they need to flourish in the jobs market and the role recruiters can play in making this happen. A...

What is the strangest thing your boss has asked you to do?  Spy on senior management?  Work on her daughter’s science project?  How about loan him money?  Nearly three-in-ten workers (28 per cent) reported that their bosses have asked them to perform tasks that are not related to their...

A survey of 200 employers has found that the government has failed to win their support for the coalition’s flagship policy for tackling youth unemployment, the Youth Contract. None of the employers polled by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) had used the programme to employ a young person...

There is widespread support for performance-based pay in the UK with almost a third of workers already on results-based pay arrangements, and many others saying they would become more productive at work if they were. 30 per cent of UK workers have their pay tied to some form of...