Channel 4 Jobs Report: special report

Channel 4 News is looking for young people entering the jobs market this summer, and people from the generation above who got their first job in 1978, to take part in a film about the Class of 2012.

A report into this year’s graduate market shows a 0.9 per cent increase in graduate vacancies. But with a record number of applications for graduate positions, competition for jobs is high.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will today endorse an initiative which aims to inspire state school pupils to be ambitious in their job aspirations.

David Cameron warns that the welfare system is causing deep social divisions and signals a rethink over what benefits are for and who receives them.

Labour leader Ed Miliband admits in a speech that the previous government was wrong in allowing so many eastern europeans into the country and then ignoring public concerns over their arrival.

The government’s spending cuts create recruitment problems for public sector organisations as people “shy away” from the sector, a new report warns.

Business Secretary Vince Cable publishes plans to give shareholders more power over directors’ pay and remuneration packages, but are they tough enough?

As the UK struggles under the government’s coalition cuts, the latest unemployment figures show a surprise fall in jobless numbers – but why?

With Tesco reporting a 1.5 decline in sales, former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy tells Channel 4 News a doubling in the price of oil has hit UK consumers “more than anything else”.

London’s six Olympic host boroughs look set to provide more than 40 per cent of security staff for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, its official security provider reveals.

Computer-maker Hewlett-Packard is cutting 27,000 jobs to save $3bn a year but worried UK staff won’t know their fate for months because the cuts will not be fully implemented until October.

The UK’s tax-collecting service is praised by MPs for recovering billions of pounds in lost revenue – but it could have been considerably more if it had not shed so many jobs.

British defence giant BAE Systems secures a £1.6bn deal with Saudi Arabia that will safeguard more than 240 jobs that were under threat at its Yorkshire factory.

As GM chooses Ellesmere Port for the production of the new Astra, Channel 4 News looks at the differences between British and German workers’ rights and pay to find out why Britain closed the deal.

The UK economy receives a boost as the US motor giant confirms a £125m investment in Vauxhall’s car plant in Cheshire, creating thousands of new jobs.