The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.5% in the third quarter of this year, according to figures from the US commerce department.   The published figure was in line with expectations and an improvement on growth in the second quarter of the year of 1.3 percent. Overall...

Organisations can achieve greater success by meeting the seven fundamental needs of employees, according to a new book by Jack Wiley, Ph.D., and Brenda Kowske, Ph.D, titled “RESPECT: Delivering Results by Giving Employees what They Really Want.” A world authority on the factors that motivate employees and how they...

A survey of nearly 250 students and graduates by graduate recruitment website Milkround found 37 percent of respondents had been discriminated against. Overall, 31 percent of those who had been discriminated against said they faced age discrimination, with 30 percent getting singled out based on their ethnicity. Male and...

All the indicators in today’s labour market statistics from the Office of National Statistics suggest further deterioration in the jobs market: The headline unemployment figure from the Labour Force Survey increased by 114,000 over the quarter to August, taking the total to 2.57 million. The unemployment rate, at 8.1...

How do you produce a student resource that encourages excellence in researching potential graduate employer without spoon-feeding those students?  You hire a team of crack researchers and editors and brief them to produce an informational one-stop-shop for job candidates. You also secure the involvement of recruiters and give useful,...