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Job Front: Matching military vets to employers is group’s goal
In Sacramento, a number of veterans groups and state and local employment agencies work to make local employers aware of job-ready veterans. Here are a few: • Sacramento Area Human Resource Association (www.sahra.org). • Sacramento Veterans Resource Center (www.vietvets.org/svrc.htm). • Employment Development Department (www.edd.ca.gov). • California Department of Veterans Affairs (www.cdva.ca.gov). • Sacramento Employment and … Continue reading
ICT skills shortage hampers Northern Ireland companies’ expansion – BBC News
Amidst the gloom of rising unemployment, here’s some good news: a survey by a recruitment firm says Belfast is one of the best cities in the UK to get a job in the information and computer technology (ICT) sector. But there’s a reason for that: we have got a serious shortage of suitably qualified people. … Continue reading
Solving the Inefficient Student Job Market
StudentJobsEverywhere.com launched its job matching service aimed at addressing the historical issues pertaining to hiring students. The service provides organizations access to the 16 to 26 year old market across Canada, in one convenient location. Jobs can be posted free of charge. The service matches the organization’s requirements such as skills, experience, location, with those … Continue reading
Job Search Differences Between Today and Yesterday | CAREEREALISM
Here they are: 1. Google Has Replaced the Resume 2. A Summary is Enough 3. Social Proof is a Must 4. Resumes and Cover Letters Are Not Read on Paper Anymore 5. Relationships First, Resume’s Second 6. Employers Only Care About What They Want 7. Don’t Mind the Gap 8. Nouns Are the New Currency … Continue reading
The You Behind Your Resume | Psychology Today
One of the key factors in determining emotional resiliency is what social psychologists call an “internal locus of control.” A locus of control, which can be either external or internal, is a belief about our power to effect change in our lives. Those with a dominant external locus of control believe their destiny lies beyond … Continue reading
Mismatch shocks and the natural rate of unemployment
The authors estimate a DSGE model that features nominal rigidities and search frictions in the labor market. They evaluate the importance of mismatch shocks in accounting for the recent behavior of the Beveridge curve. Their fndings suggest that the rise in the unemployment rate during the Great Recession is mainly due to cyclical factors rather than to an increase in … Continue reading
The Top 3 Mistakes Job Seekers Will Make on Facebook Timeline
More than 18.4 million Americans have used Facebook to find a job. Facebook Timeline poses new obstacles for current adults looking for work. How can the Timeline mess up an existing job search? Here are three things job seekers should avoid doing on Facebook Timeline. It should be abundantly clear that Facebook Timeline is different, … Continue reading
Bank of America to freeze pension plan
Bank of America announced plans Thursday to freeze pension plans, effective in July, and increase its 401(k) contributions instead. Eligible employees will keep the pension benefits that they’ve earned to date but will not receive additional benefits, Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) spokesman Scott Silvestri said. The company will instead begin making an additional … Continue reading
Which skills do count when you are unemployed and looking for work ?
There are two groups of skills that make a difference if you’re looking for work : Your search skills Your own skills, your competencies.
Digital Literacy | Cisco International Education Survey: World Education Leaders See Increasing Role for Technology to Transform Learning
“More than three-quarters of top education officials around the world believe technology can play a major role in how students learn and how teachers educate, according to a global survey commissioned by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and conducted by Clarus Research Group, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm. Telephone interviews were conducted with 500 education administrators and … Continue reading
Skills Gap | US : Toward a well-prepared workforce
High and lasting unemployment is the fate of several OECD countries. But at the same time, employers widely report difficulty finding qualified and skilled workers. That used to be called “structural unemployment”. More and more analysts call it the Skills Gap. It has been observed for a long time in countries, or part of them, … Continue reading
Australia : Enhancing the retention of young people to Year 12, especially through vocational skills
In late 2008, the Australian College of Educators (ACE) commissioned the Work-based Education Research Centre at Victoria University to undertake a research project entitled Enhancing retention of young people to year 12, especially through vocational skills. The broad aim of the project was to examine the factors that contribute to the retention, completion and transition … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Mismatch in the Labor Market: The Supply of and Demand for “Middle-Skill” Workers in New England
Alicia Sasser Modestino reports in the Journal of the NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION a very common concern that concerned that the region’s slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will lead to a shortage of skilled labor—particularly when the baby boom generation retires. “Prior to the Great … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Massachusetts : no current worker gap but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations
There is no worker gap in Massachusetts currently: there are a large number of people available to work (those unemployed, underemployed or in the labor force reserve), but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations a report says. Full Report @ :
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