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Fletcher heads to UK on big recruitment drive

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.

Five dumb ways people get fired

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

What do employers want? It's not what you think

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

Watch NZ Herald Focus: A warning that New Zealanders could be pushed out of low-skilled jobs

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.

Why your job is doomed

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.

Bernard Hickey: Why aren't Kiwis getting jobs?

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.

Jobless rate up - big jump in Akl construction

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

Chch jobseeker numbers soar as rebuild wanes

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

Inland Revenue to cut 1500 jobs

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

Business confidence drops to four-year low

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

Robots chipping away at our jobs

Look around you. Whether you're commuting or reading this at work, it's likely that in just a few years' time, the person to your right or left will have had their job taken by a robot. Maybe it will be yours.

Bank braked too hard, too long

Policymakers inevitably get things wrong from time to time, writes Brian Fallow. But if they are to learn from their mistakes, they first have to acknowledge that they are mistakes.

NZ Post job losses 'a kick in the gut'

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

Bloomberg to lay off 80 journalists

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

A workforce here today, gone tomorrow

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

Innovators big drivers of job creation

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.

Gene Nicolson: Being unemployed is hard, but not working is even worse

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.

Unemployment ticks up to 5.9pc

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