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Recruitment and talent management: Labour market

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Graduates choose retail over the City

Supermarkets are expanding their graduate recruitment programmes as students turn their backs on jobs in the City

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News

17 March 2010
Unemployment falls for third consecutive month
Unemployment has fallen by 33,000 in the past three months to 2.45 million, the largest drop in unemployment for two...
16 March 2010
Tories plan 'service academy' for training unemployed people
The Conservatives plan to set up a "service academy" if elected that would create up to 50,000 work and training places for the unemployed...
16 March 2010
Wage increases could push up unemployment, Bank of England warns
Lower wage increases meant unemployment during the recession peaked at a lower rate than previous economic downturns, according to the Bank of...

Features and columnists

14 January 2010
A new era for age
Older workers have fared relatively well during this recession. That's just as well, because with dwindling pension pots...
10 September 2009
Slim pickings
Migrant workers tend to sit at the bottom of the supply chain, vulnerable and open to exploitation. Hashi Syedain investigates what's being done...

HR essentials

25 February 2010
TV review: The Day the Immigrants Left
The Day the Immigrants Left was supposed to answer the question: could the UK cope without its immigrant workers? But the questions it posed...
25 February 2010
Film review: Capitalism: A Love Story
Having taken on big business, gun culture, defence policy and the healthcare insurance industry, documentary maker Michael Moore has turned his...

Careers

07 May 2009
Lynne Weedall
After leaving school I went on the management training programme at Waitrose. I found that dealing with people was the...
02 October 2008
Sara Carthy
My stepfather, who was an HR director, helped to guide me into HR as a profession. At 16, I joined an NHS Youth Training...

Your say

12 March 2010
HR must lead from the front during public-sector cuts
HR professionals will have a major role in cutting public-sector budgets while maintaining services - but we could make ourselves extinct
19 January 2010
It's time to do away with the default retirement age
A combination of tradition and confusing legislation encourages firms to continue with a fixed retirement date, but older workers can still contribute...

Blogs

02 March 2010
BBC is playing politics with proposed cuts
Cutting innovative content will make for a blander BBC, writes Tim Smedley
29 January 2010
The FTSE files: Cadbury
James Brockett takes a look at the business and HR facts and figures behind FTSE-100 companies hitting the headlines

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The UK may draw comfort from having lower measured unemployment than the EU average but in truth we are no better than a mid-table performer

John Philpott, CIPD’s chief economic adviser