Recent research has analysed the behaviour of 4.8 million jobseekers and 5,000 recruiters each month, reveals that competition for jobs has risen to 18 applications per job, following a drop earlier in 2012. This is despite an overall increase in the number of jobs available across the country. Nationally,...

Only four percent of employers reported that they had reduced their use of agency workers in direct response to the Agency Worker Regulations, according to on-going analysis of the impact of the one-year-old rules conducted by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Further findings from the REC’s Industry Research...

Nearly 90 per cent of UK workers don’t want to make the daily commute into the office, and would prefer to work from home, according to a new study. The survey by staffbay.com, the social-media based recruitment website, shows that some 88 per cent said they would prefer to...

A rise in the earnings of the lowest paid workers has come into effect but athletes and hairdressers are likely to see their tax bill increase.    Various changes to the UK tax and benefits system come into force on 1 October.   These include an increase in the UK minimum...