Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement of the new growth and skills levy and new foundation apprenticeships, as well as the first Skills England report on the nationwide skills gaps, Tania...

Applications for roles in the legal sector have plummeted over the past year, despite stable demand for talent, suggesting the market is feeling the impact of growing skills shortages at a crucial...

The number of people applying for roles in the IT sector has continued to fall, highlighting the extent of worsening skills shortages facing firms. That’s according to the latest insights from the...

Imagine discovering that for every pound you spend on job boards, up to 24 pence might as well be poured down the drain.

Despite the Parliamentary recess, the Labour government had Whitehall working hard over the summer, particularly the new teams set up in Department of Business and Trade to draft the Employment...

As a concept, social mobility refers to the ways in which someone’s socio-economic status can change over the course of their lifetime, and how it may differ to those of previous generations. The...

Many recruitment roles are challenging to fill due to talent shortages. Every recruitment consultant needs and wants to find fantastic candidates through well-developed networks and well-placed...

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has launched a new member service, APSCo Advanced Media, powered by advertising specialist TRS Media, to help recruitment firms fully...

“Those who are unaware of history are destined to repeat it.” When I started in the IT recruitment industry back in the early 1980s, for a company called Myriad Appointments, it was a very different...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" – Sir Isaac Newton.