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India | Brings visa fee hike to WTO
India is challenging the United States at the World Trade Organisation over increased visa fees for skilled workers that have hit the country’s flagship outsourcing firms, an official said Tuesday. “We are pursuing this at the consultation level. It is our hope we reach an amicable conclusion,” a senior commerce department official in New Delhi … Continue reading
College Return on Investment
When people talk about the value of a college degree, they mean different things. A report last year by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce pegs the median value of a four-year bachelor’s degree at $2.3 million, which is the average earnings for a degree holder employed full-time from ages 25 to 64. … Continue reading
Canada – A Widening Skills Gap
A fault line is splintering Canada’s labour market into those who can’t find work and those who can’t find workers. There’s no shortage of people looking for work. Some 1.4 million Canadians are unemployed, the jobless rate is still above pre-recession levels and youth unemployment is nearly 14 per cent. Despite this, employers across the … Continue reading
Prime Aged American Men | From over 80 percent at work to less than 3 in 4
The percentage of Prime Aged American Men Without Disability (PAAM) who are employed is one of the best labor market indicator.
Consumer Goods | Layoffs Mounting
Consumer goods companies are planning more layoffs than all other industries this year due to company reorganizations, rising commodity prices and weak consumer spending, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Companies such as Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo and Kraft Foods announced a total of 18,438 job cuts in the first quarter of … Continue reading
India | Dhanlaxmi Bank | To cut more jobs
More pain of job loss awaits employees of Dhanlaxmi Bank. As the Kerala-based private bank moves ahead with business consolidation and rationalisation, more heads are expected to roll. Already, the staff strength of the Thrissur-headquartered bank has come down to a little over 4,200 from 4,600 in November last year, as more than 300 employees … Continue reading
Finland | Tieto | After 1300 job cuts
Despite 1300 job cuts globally, Finland’s IT major Tieto Corporation is planning to restructure the business and may exit some unprofitable markets. Tieto will downsize 1,300 jobs including about 500 in Finland and 300 in Sweden. The company is planning to save over 50 million euros in annual costs by cutting these jobs. Speaking to … Continue reading
Canada | Skilled workers program changes will deter future immigrants
Canada’s decision to close the files of skilled workers who applied to immigrate before March 2008 will give the country a black eye and deter future immigrants with needed skills, according to a Vancouver immigration lawyer. The federal government plans to return applications and refund fees for nearly everyone who applied under the program before … Continue reading
India | Privacy invasion in job interviews
You may be very secretive otherwise, and not want to share your passwords for your email or social networking accounts, and rightly so. But what if it is your employer who is asking you for it? In what is branded as an unethical and a rather provocative measure, candidates looking for a job have been … Continue reading
For Dummies | Skills and Personal Qualities that Employers Want
Popular skills that employers want A roundup of several surveys suggests skills that employers often admire. The following list is representative but not comprehensive: Effective communication: Employers seek candidates who can listen to instructions and act on those instructions with minimal guidance. They want employees who speak, write, and listen effectively, organize their thoughts logically, … Continue reading
Don’t do that during an interview : the Seven Deadly Interview Sins
Here are seven deadly thing that you must not do during a job interview. Call them the Seven Deadly Interview Sins. Don’t Be Late To the Interview Don’t Show Up Unprepared Don’t Ask About Salary, Benefits, Perks Don’t Focus On Future Roles Instead Of The Job At Hand Don’t Turn The Weakness Question Into A … Continue reading
Who Is the Most Unemployed?
As the recent recession and recovery have demonstrated, the storms and lulls in the labor market are rarely felt evenly among its participants. A variety of factors, including education and industry concentration, mean that some groups will remain vulnerable to job losses. However, as the economic recovery gains speed, the employment prospects for all workers should continue to improve. Continue reading
Skills Gap | U.S. | Demand Rises for Skilled-Worker Visas
In a sign of the improving economy, the U.S. government said it saw a sharp rise in petitions for skilled-foreign-worker visas during the first week of this year’s application season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since April 2, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire … Continue reading
Ontario | Job training excludes half of unemployed
Making employment supports available to all job-seekers would level the playing field and help the province’s neediest escape poverty, says Ontario’s social services review commission, headed by Frances Lankin and Munir Sheikh. The commission’s final report, to be released in June, will also include recommendations on how to improve the administration of the province’s two … Continue reading
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