Cloud computing: 14 million jobs by 2015?
smartplanet.com – I’m not Convinced Cloud computing is about efficiency. Cloud computing is about replacing thousands of underutilized server rooms and IT departments with shared facilities with higher utilization r…
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Romney’s Bain Record on Job Creation Attacked – Businessweek
businessweek.com – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign attacked Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital LLC, with a top adviser saying Americans have a “visceral reaction” to the Republican candidate’s record …
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NUJ to cut jobs | Media
guardian.co.uk – The National Union of Journalists is to cut jobs and reduce costs in order to stave off an impending financial crisis. The NUJ executive council said it had been forced to take the action to counte…
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allAfrica.com: Jobs for Youth Key to Africa’s Continued Economic Growth and Social Cohesion
allafrica.com – With the number of youths in Africa set to double by 2045, countries across the continent should boost job creation and help young people acquire new skills, according to the African Economic Outlo…
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Suburban employers to hire more college grads – DailyHerald.com
dailyherald.com – This years college graduates might have an easier time entering the workforce than their recent predecessors, thanks to local companies hiring plans and grads in-demand skills. As the economy co…
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Expats eyeing local job opportunities | BUSINESS
themoscownews.com – Expats eyeing local job opportunities28/05/201216:34
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850 oil refinery jobs at risk – ITV News
itv.com – 850 jobs are at risk at an oil refinery that is set to close after administrators failed to find a buyer or the investment needed to keep it going. The Coryton plant in Essex supplies 20% of fuel i…
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Money Matters: Schwab survey shows older workers want to keep working – Topix
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Employment trends and policies for older workers in the recession
eurofound.europa.eu – Employment trends and policies for older workers in the recession This report summarises available data on recent employment trends for older workers in the EU27 as well as the results of organis…
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Minimum wage advocates renew NY push this week – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com – ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates including the Occupy Albany movement and clergy pushing New York’s proposal to raise the minimum wage are gearing up for the final four weeks of the legislative session. Re…
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Analysis – Canada’s jobs comeback? Too good to be true
uk.reuters.com – Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, p…
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The jobless generation: Regional crisis in youth employment
english.alarabiya.net – The International Labor Organization is sounding the alarm about a global crisis in youth unemployment, which is worsening by the day. This crisis turns into a catastrophe in our region, which is a…
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Veteran Central: A Career-Oriented Social Network for Vets
mashable.com – After spending nine years on tour with the Navy, Michael Barrett found that adjusting to civilian life — especially finding a stable and well-paying job — was a tough and arduous process. “It’s a d…
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Apprenticeships a profitable substitute to college: studies – The Globe and Mail
theglobeandmail.com – Want to boost your earnings power without the trouble and expense of traditional post-secondary education? Do an apprenticeship. Turns out, at least for men, getting an apprenticeship certification…
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10 of the Most Desired College Internships in this Techno Age
savedelete.com – One of the sweetest sounds to students is when that last bell in the last class rings to signal school is out for summer. The sudden appearance of interns around the office is as sure a sign that s…
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When You Have Gaps In Your Resume
biginterview.com – Having a gap in your resume — a period of time when you weren’t working, or weren’t working at anything that you want to include in your resume — is common these days. The current 9.1% unemployment…
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The Most Common 6 Body Language Mistakes That Jobseekers Make, And Don’t Even Know It – Business Insider
businessinsider.com – “Because applicants are so similar in the schools they attended, the degrees they have, the jobs they’ve held, and the resumes and cover letters that they provide, the interview is an outstanding o…
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What NOT to say to Recent Grads in a Job Interview
smartrecruiters.com – Graduation season is here! Bright eyed and fresh faced students leave the fuzzy comfort of academia for the harsh light of the real world. Soon, recent grads all around the world will be readying t…
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Essential Job Interview Tips for your Civil Engineering Jobs
civilengineerdegree.com – Are you interested in working for a dream job of your civil engineering career? If yes, you should find your way to work hard for the job interview. There are a lot of things that you may need to p…
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Career Savvy – Get More Out of Your Next Interview: 3 Tips For Asking Better Questions
vestiigo.com – The dreaded job interview is probably up there with going to the dentist and getting a flu vaccination on most people’s list of fun things to do. After all, there’s a reason why interviewing tips …
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10 Reasons Why The U.S. Is Great – Business Insider
businessinsider.com – But when looking at the country’s global peers — especially in Europe — things start to look not just middling, but surprisingly robust. Take the U.K., which is in substantially better shape than …
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WTO’s Lamy urges China to free up services sector
reuters.com – Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, p…
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Crisis draws squatters to Spain’s empty buildings – The Globe and Mail
theglobeandmail.com – Sleeping on inflatable mattresses with just a few boxes to hold their belongings, 32 families have occupied an empty new apartment block in Seville in southern Spain to put a roof over their heads …
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Spanish PM insists banks won’t need EU rescue – seattlepi.com
seattlepi.com – MADRID (AP) — Conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insisted Monday that Spain’s banking sector would not need an international rescue as concern over the bailout of nationalized lender…
Youth unemployment: Africa’s biggest challenge? – Across the Atlantic
moneyweb.co.za – As we’ve discussed before, Africa is basically the only continent in the world where the youth population is growing; everywhere else is seeing a massive expansion in the population of the elderly….
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Quebec protest leaders hint at compromise – – Macleans OnCampus
oncampus.macleans.ca – Leaders of at least two of the three large student groups who organized Quebec’s student “strike” movement suggest that a compromise could soon end the 106-day conflict. Martine Desjardins, leader …
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Why a traditional CV isn’t always enough | Guardian careers
careers.guardian.co.uk – Although a traditional CV and cover letter combination is still the standard job application method, the growing popularity and clout of social networks has made a supplementary, online presence vi…
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Spain runs out of money – Telegraph Blogs
blogs.telegraph.co.uk – El Mundo reports that the country can no longer resist the bond markets as 10-year yields flirt with 6.5pc again, and the spread over Bunds – or `prima de riesgo’ — hits a fresh record each day. Pr…
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President Obama refines economic pitch by focusing on steady jobs growth – TheHill.com
thehill.com – President Obama’s campaign is highlighting job growth and a steep decline in the unemployment rate over the last year to sell the public on the idea that his economic policies are working. Obama’s …
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Academics lament lack of respect and reward in India – FT.com
ft.com – When Bakul Dholakia was a young man, he says being a teacher meant something. The former dean of the elite Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad says the respect that students then had for teach…
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The Nation – Should age be a barrier to employment?
thenationonlineng.net – Applicants are confronted with obstacles, such as age and work experience, when searching for jobs. Labour leaders are seeking a waiver of some of the requirements to tackle unemployment, reports L…
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Coming up, 100 more skill development centres
igovernment.in – Kolkata: The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) will open 100 more training centres in the country. “Our target has been revised to 400,000 persons from 250,000 persons for the year 2012…
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P & amp;W to lay off 200 in state? – Avionics Intelligence
avionics-intelligence.com – Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney announced Thursday that it is eliminating 200 salaried jobs in Connecticut and another 100 positions outside the state. The layoffs are effective immediately, and c…
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Check integrity before you hire
azcentral.com – A father who had been laid off from his job had been watching expenses for months. He’d made a promise to his twin sons that he’d take them to a nearby amusement park to celebrate their tenth birth…
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Eurozone woes drive youth to Australia | Connect Asia
radioaustralia.net.au – Government statistics show a jump in the number of Spanish, Italian and Greek students arriving to study English. Many of them hope that brushing up their language skills will give them an edge whe…
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AM – Thousands of engineering jobs to be axed 28/05/2012
abc.net.au – Emily Bourke reported this story on Monday, May 28, 2012 08:08:00
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Heyday sheds 500 jobs in wake of Hastie collapse
smh.com.au – As many as 500 employees of NSW electrical contractor, the Heyday Group, are believed to be out of work following the collapse at the weekend of parent Hastie Group, making it the latest in a sprea…
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Economist: For Every One High Tech Job, Five Other Jobs Created « CBS Philly
philadelphia.cbslocal.com – PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – High tech or big wreck? That’s the stark choice for our region’s economy and others as put forth by an economist’s years of study. There are not two Americas, as some political…
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Canada’s demographic ‘golden age’ coming to an end – The Globe and Mail
theglobeandmail.com – Canada is at a demographic peak, but the descent will be swift and steep. A greater proportion of people are working now than ever before. The largest chunk of the population, the baby boomers, are…
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Fears of mass job cuts at Hastie Group
news.com.au – UP to 2000 jobs in Victoria and New South Wales are at risk after engineering services company Hastie Group appointed voluntary administrators this morning. But it will be business as usual while r…
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Sky News: News Ltd to cut 400 jobs – report
skynews.com.au – News Limited has declined comment on reports the media company is set to cut 400 jobs as it restructures its largely print-based publishing business and shifts its focus online. The reports come fr…
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Finding jobs for disabled Canadians « Social Policy in Ontario
spon.ca – TheStar.com – moneyville.ca May 27, 2012. By Alison Griffiths In late 2009 I had a quiet word with Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. We spoke with the easy intimacy of strangers who have som…
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Africa needs programmes to boost youth employment – study
engineeringnews.co.za – Africans aged between 15 and 24 currently comprise 60% of the continent’s unemployed, with 22-million of those 40-million unemployed youths having abandoned the search for a job, the latest ‘Africa…
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Alberta and jobs – Saint John General Labour Jobs – Kijiji Saint John Canada.
saintjohn.kijiji.ca – We are ALBERTA OILFIELD EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS You saw us in the business section of the TELEGRAPHER We are coming back to SAINT JOHN June 23rd -25th We will be holding a 3 day seminar after which we…
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‘More Indian Working Women Aborting Motherhood’ – IPS ipsnews.net
ipsnews.net – ‘More Indian Working Women Aborting Motherhood’ By Sujoy Dhar NEW DELHI, May 28, 2012 (IPS) – A young professional in India’s burgeoning IT hub Gurgaon, a major satellite city of national capital N…
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Analysis: With or without euro, Europe must raise its game
reuters.com – Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, p…
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Why not work these jobs?
windsorstar.com – Almost 17,000 people in Windsor and the surrounding area don’t have a job. That’s 10.1 per cent of the workforce, the highest unemployment rate in Canada. When it comes to doling out the dole, Wind…
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Bain’s priority wasn’t job creation – Monday, May 28, 2012
lasvegassun.com – Mitt Romney keeps insisting that he was a job creator at Bain Capital. Unfortunately for his argument, Bain’s goal, like every other private company, was to make money. Job creation was never a pri…
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Defeated Tories land public jobs
vancouversun.com – About one in four defeated Conservative candidates in the 2011 election have received a taxpayer-funded federal job within the last year. An analysis by Postmedia News has found that 35 of the 141 …
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2ndUPDATE: Thousands Of Jobs At Risk As Hastie Fails – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com – –MEP businesses suspended while finances are assessed –Thousands of Australian, Middle East jobs at risk (Adds comments from the administrator in seventh paragraph; comments from the employment m…
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RIM ‘could cut 6,000 jobs’ | Technology
guardian.co.uk – Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, is preparing for a major restructuring that could cut up to 6,000 jobs from its worldwide workforce of 16,500. Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper …
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Krugman and depression economics « Michael Roberts Blog
thenextrecession.wordpress.com – Paul Krugman’s latest book, End this depression now!, is easy reading (http://www.amazon.com/End-This-Depression-Paul-Krugman/dp/0393088774). In this well-written piece, the Nobel prize winner and…
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Cyclical Unemployment vs. Structural Unemployment
ritholtz.com – Real Time Economics (WSJ Blog) – Structural Unemployment Would Affect Both Sides of Fed Mandate Over the past few months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other Fed officials have wondered…
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Asian Americans Suffer Most from Long-Term Unemployment – COLORLINES
colorlines.com – For the past two years, Asian Americans have had the highest share of unemployed workers who were unemployed long term (for more than half a year) when compared with white, black, and Latino worker…
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FactCheck: Is regulation to blame for unemployment?
blogs.channel4.com – “Many regulations, conceived in an era of full employment, are designed to make employment more attractive to potential employees…in today’s era of a lack of jobs those regulations simply exacerbat…
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The Benefits Of A College Education
zerohedge.com – Depends on what your major is in college. Undergrad was Zoology. It was a “hard science”, but no jobs out there so…..on to grad school. MBA track that time, but it was 30+ years ago. I’ll never f…
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Thousands Denied Jobless Aid Under New Florida Law — Puppet Masters — Sott.net
sott.net – Thousands Denied Jobless Aid Under New Florida Law Florida is the stingiest state in the country when it comes to providing jobless benefits for the unemployed, two workers’ rights groups argued in…
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Sustained unemployment rises
ajc.com – Nearly six out of every 10 unemployed workers in Georgia have been out of work for more than six months — believed to be the highest rate of long-term joblessness since the Great Depression. Even w…
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Rising employment or tall tales – does lowering tax produce jobs?
skwalker1964.wordpress.com – It’s been another glorious, sunny day today. So, naturally(!), I decided to spend an afternoon researching figures and playing with tables to find out whether yet another ideology/policy combinatio…
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Postgraduate students are being used as ‘slave labour’ – Education News – Education – The Independent
independent.co.uk – They warned teaching conditions were getting dramatically worse as academic cuts bite and universities are under mounting pressure to cut costs. PhD students – occupying the precarious first rung o…
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Bubble in Austerity Shows Europe Is Ignoring 1997- Bloomberg
mobile.bloomberg.com – As Greece burns, European officials fiddle and Asia braces for another global crisis, my thoughts are on Thailand. This summer marks the 15th anniversary of the baht devaluation that ignited one of…
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IMF chief comes under fire in Greece – Europe – Al Jazeera English
aljazeera.com – Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has earned the ire of Greek politicians after she made comments that they say brand the Greek people as tax-dodgers in…
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Economist’s View: The Politics of the Super-Rich
economistsview.typepad.com – This graph from his post shows the ideological distribution of Democrats (blue), Republicans (red), and the Forbes 400 (black):
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The Jobless Generation: Regional crisis in youth employment
arabnews.com – The International Labor Organization is sounding the alarm about a global crisis in youth unemployment, which is worsening by the day. This crisis turns into a catastrophe in our region, which is a…
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Only one in three pensioners stop work at retirement age – Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk – “Sadly many people are finding their retirement plans turn out to be a mirage. They get near, realise they can’t afford it, and see the day when they’ll stop working slip further into the distance,…
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Macau labor shortage seen as hurdle for casino expansion – DailyHerald.com
dailyherald.com – HONG KONG Macaus $34 billion gaming industry has an obstacle. With 28 million visitors and 21 percent economic growth last year, Macau is confronting a severe labor shortage. The Chinese city, o…
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N.S. employers experience skilled workers shortage
atlantic.ctv.ca – The federal government says changes to the Employment Insurance system are meant to encourage more Canadians to work but some employers say the real problem is that there aren’t enough skilled work…
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Office workers flood market
news.com.au – SKILLS shortages in engineering and IT have been increasing while mid-level office workers are facing a tougher labour market, a survey has found. The Clarius Skills Index, which measures supply an…
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Manufacturers push skills certificate as good jobs go unfilled – Today’s News – TheSunNews.com
myrtlebeachonline.com – WASHINGTON — The U.S. unemployment rate remains above 8 percent, and every politician extols the importance of job creation. Yet each month thousands of manufacturing jobs are there for the taking…
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Tough times ahead: News Ltd set to cut up to 400 jobs
smh.com.au – NEWS LTD is poised to announce major job cuts as it restructures its print publishing business to ensure its survival in a digital future. Up to 400 editorial jobs are set to go as part of a cost-c…
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Milke: Canada must share its wealth – and its jobs – with others
calgaryherald.com – It seems everyone has advice on how Western Canada should manage its resources. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair blames the oilsands for Dutch disease, the notion that high resource prices cause a hollowi…
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Is there such thing as a bad job? Yes, but we can’t be fastidious
digitaljournal.com – Toronto – As the Canadian federal government makes significant changes to the Employment Insurance system, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s comments of there is no such thing as a bad job must be qu…
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Jobs: The number of baby boomers retiring is holding down the unemployment rate – UPI.com
upi.com – President Obama can thank baby boomers at least in part for the drop in the U.S. unemployment rate, with the first post-World War II generation hitting retirement age at a rate of 10,000 a day. Une…
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