Theresa May's rapid rise to prime minister will help the UK economy skirt a recession following the Brexit vote.

Life after university can mean more wealth and health, but challenges remain.

Our biggest building company is off to London as it searches for new staff to help keep up with a massive boom in construction work.

Faking your CV and ranting on social media and surefire ways to get fired.

Don't be too hung up on experience - attitude counts for more than you realise.

On NZ Herald Focus – The Treasury is warning that record levels of immigration could push New Zealanders out of low-skilled jobs and Islamic State militants launch a major counter-attack on Iraqi government troops in Fallujah. Also Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is a father again at the age of 68 after his wife gave birth to twin girls.

Look around - in the next few years, most of your colleagues will be gone, a leading workplace expert has warned. But there's good news.

COMMENT: A generation seems not to have the work skills, aptitude and life skills to work for the wages employers are able to pay, writes Bernard Hickey.

New Zealand's jobless rate rose in the first quarter as the nation's labour force recorded its biggest increase in 12 years.

The Employment Court has ruled Affco must allow 200 Wairoa freezing workers to return to their jobs.

INTERACTIVE: Unemployment rates have fallen to the lowest level since recession but not everyone is feeling the benefits.

The unemployment rate has unexpectedly fallen to a six year low of 5.3 per cent.

The U.S. faces the dilemma of whether to take in refugees from the Syrian civil war, but it could prove beneficial for the economy.

An economy with a permanent pool of unemployed and with no real growth in wage rates is also an economy with less purchasing power and demand than it ideally needs, writes Bryan Gould.

Unemployment rate rises to 6 per cent - the first rise in three years.

Unemployment benefit rolls have dropped to a seven-year low in Auckland, but are now rising again in 10 of New Zealand's 14 other regions.

Business confidence extended its decline in the third quarter, plunging to its lowest level in more than four years.

Workers at Christchurch's New Zealand Post contact centre are devastated to learn their jobs soon won't exist.

The layoffs come after Michael Bloomberg's return about a year ago following three terms as New York mayor.

Digital innovations and the development of robotics are disrupting industries across the globe.

A key result from EY's recent global job creation survey indicates that 65 per cent of those aged between 18 and 25 plan to run their own business at some point: 27 per cent immediately and 38 per cent after working for someone else.

There's something about working and it's not just the money, writes Gene Nicolson, a former employment skills tutor who found himself out of work.

The jobless rate is up as the number of new jobs created fails to keep pace with an expanding population.

Union chief says he received a tip that hundreds of Westpac staff face losing their jobs.

Australian unemployment is believed to have bumped higher last month thanks to a slowdown in the creation of new jobs.

A new report described as the first of its kind has broken down how much Chinese money is flowing into America.

Some regions will "fail" economically and perhaps socially unless we help them to adjust, the Salvation Army says.

The New Zealand dollar has dropped by US1c after labour data out this morning showed wage growth was less than expected.

Celebrations are planned this evening after McDonald's and Unite Union reached an agreement to end "zero hour" contracts.