Employers are being challenged to take on 500 unemployed young people in the next 50 days to give young New Zealanders a break into their first jobs.

What's the best way to secure 10 job interviews? Sending your CV with a box of donuts.

Bunnings has defended the sacking of a disabled man, saying details of the situation can't be discussed publicly.

The worst job interview experiences have been revealed on social media.

It's the catch-22 of the jobs market: you need a degree to compete, but employers want candidates with experience.

Employers views on inked employees are changing.

Job advertisements on jobs website Seek rose 9.9 per cent in the year to August.

A Kaitaia schoolgirl who has organised three community meetings about a spate of suspected youth suicides in the town says she is frustrated that adult agencies have not been more supportive.

Small businesses have been hurt by the gastro outbreak in Havelock North.

More than 50 per cent of IT industry workers are planning to change jobs within 12 months.

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A survey of 1000 full and part-time employees, as well as the self-employed, examined job satisfaction, technology, productivity and general health of workers

More than three quarters of Kiwis are actively looking for a new job, up more than 20 per cent in six months.

Roger Ailes resigned as head of the Fox News Channel leaving Rupert Murdoch to settle frayed nerves.

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.

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.

Jobseeker beneficiaries in Canterbury have jumped by 18pc in the past year as the massive rebuild winds down.

Inland Revenue is set to cut 1500 jobs between 2018 and 2021.

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.