Business students turn to The Times 100

Major companies are adding their weight to the reference work whose reputation is going from strength to strength

Graduates play it safe as employers cut back

Emily Ford looks at the challenges facing graduates entering the jobs market in today's bleak economic climate

Graduates get hard lessons in finding jobs

With tough competition from the newly unemployed, students are finding it difficult to start a career

Top 100 Graduate employers: NHS

Now 60 years old, the National Health Service is the largest single organisation in Europe, with more than 1.3 million staff

Top 100 graduate employers: No 81 E.ON

E.ON is one of only five energy groups to feature in this year's edition of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers

Management briefing: the 'career crunch'

Without a doubt, there is a perception that public sector employment is more secure as graduates alter their working plans

Top 100 graduate employers: No 46. WPP

WPP is one of the world’s largest communications services groupswith its brands including JWT, Millward Brown and G2

Top 100 Graduate employers

No 1 PricewaterhouseCoopers

Top 100 Graduate employers: No 12 - HSBC

One of the world’s largest financial services organisations, with 330,000 staff and more than 10,000 offices in 83 countries

Movers and shakers

Former chief executive of Friends Provident joins Pension Corporation to help with 'facilitating the strategic development'

Gender pay differences

Women are paid less than their male colleagues, but why? Is it because of discrimination or a result of life choices?

Regulators must develop cross-border alliances

By their nature, insurance companies are prepared to cope with turmoil and their risk assessment has stood them in good stead

An end to laissez-faire approach to pensions

Market turmoil has exposed weaknesses in management of many funds and it's time for fund managers to face obligations

Pay consultants by results

While there will be pressure to justify spending, industry says it is in position to bring savings and to add value