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The number of permanent jobs being filled grew at its slowest rate for 18 months, stoking fears of an unemployment rise.
Although the absolute number grew, the pace of growth in November showed a drop off and could turn negative.
A senior recruiter working for Amazon has boasted on Twitter of her power to stop the benefits of those sent to her for interview.
Kelly-Jane Stone from Watford used the Twitter account @DietQueen to bash unemployed people who came to her for work, calling them "suckers" and writing of her power to get their benefits stopped.
Stone has since been suspended from the Transline Group in Hemel Hempstead, which holds an account finding staff for online retail giant Amazon.
Companies that favour unpaid interns when they recruit staff are missing out on talent from poorer backgrounds.
That is the warning from a government-backed report, Graduate Recruitment: the HEAR and Now, written by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) and Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), which found that social mobility is being harmed by some companies' restrictive recruitment practices.
The total time needed to find a new job has risen by a quarter, a new survey has found.
Randstad, the specialist recruitment company, asked 2,000 jobseekers about their hunt for work, and found:
• The interview process for a new job has increased by 1.5 hours
• The number of roles requiring aptitude or technical testing has doubled to 29%
• Employers now take 5 weeks and 6 days to fill a job, up from 3 weeks and 4 days five years ago
• Interviewees relying on internet to prepare take twice as long to secure a role compared to five years ago
The Mirror's Get Britain Working campaign now includes a jobs board, showing which companies have work right now.
Some employers are undertaking big recruitment drives, including (with their website contacts):
Recruitment software company Bullhorn have carried out a survey of recruitment consultants to find out what actions are most likely to stop applicants getting a job from them. Anyone looking for a job should read this excellent Telegraph write up of it. Some of the advice is contradictory but that only shows that where human beings are involved there is no one right answer.
Some of the advice should be put in to practice by all jobseekers straight away:
