UK recruitment: ‘world’s most competitive market’

• Beijing Career International has described Britain as the world's most competitive recruitment market, ahead of a multimillion pound deal.

• High street retailers continue to struggle. We examine the numbers, and see why recruitment has stalled on Britain's high streets.

• The PageUp data breach has finally reached the UK. Discover which of the Australian recruitment software company's UK clients have been affected by the breach.

• And is Australia's skills gap being over-reported? Data from different sources suggests that the country is a world leader for filling placements quickly.

Read these full stories in our round-up of the week's top global and UK Recruitment news stories.