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UK / NHS nursing posts / 12,000 to go says Labour

Thousands of NHS nursing posts could be lost in the next two years, the shadow Health Secretary has warned. Labour’s Andy Burnham said the health service would lose 12,000 nurses while the Coalition was in power if the current rate of loss continued. Mr Burnham said there was new evidence that NHS trusts were meeting … Continue reading →

JPMorgan / 4,000 jobs to be cut

JPMorgan is trimming about 4,000 jobs, or about 1.5 percent of its work force, becoming the latest big bank to shrink its staff. The bank said the cuts will be focused in consumer banking and mortgages. Many of the cuts would come through attrition, but the bank will lay off workers as well, a bank … Continue reading →

Quebec / The Summit on Higher Education: The losers are youth holders of vocational and technical degrees

Quebec / The Summit on Higher Education: The losers are youth holders of vocational and technical degrees

The Obsession with Growth Rates

For progressives, the economy of the mid-20th century constitutes a kind of paradise lost. Between 1947 and 1973, mean family income doubled, rising as much among the poor as among the rich. By contrast, from 1973 to 2007, income growth was half as great. While growth was less equally distributed than in the earlier “Golden … Continue reading →

Job Search / Do Women Have An Edge In It ?

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the issue of gender stereotyping when it comes to job hunting. It’s totally un-PC to say that women are better at making personal connections than men, but that’s exactly what Sam Pease, a vice president at the Boston career-coaching and job search firm, New Directions, told me when I asked … Continue reading →

Denmark / A massive increase in highly skilled foreign workers

Denmark has seen a massive increase in highly skilled foreign workers in recent years, a new report has shown. According to fresh figures from the Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen), the number of educated people immigrating to Denmark from abroad has increase five-fold in the last two decades. Only 3,000 skilled non-EU foreigners entered the country for … Continue reading →

Spain / Caixabank to cut about 3,000 jobs

CAIXABANK, Spain’s biggest bank as measured by assets under management, plans to slash around 3,000 jobs as part of a restructuring. The Barcelona-based bank said the restructuring was needed following the purchase of smaller rivals Banca Civica and Banco de Valencia, which has caused its staffing levels to soar. “The implementation of this restructuring will … Continue reading →

The most important employable skills in Public Relations

The Flexible Work: What About Telecommuting

Marissa Mayer left Google to tackle what ailed Yahoo. And this week she took on … telecommuting. Yahoos were pleased with the new iPhones and free food from the new boss – a Google-icious touch. But, depending on the speaker, this “bold,” “outrageous,” or “1950s” decree eliminating work from home has stirred up comment, incredulity … Continue reading →

US / Associate’s degree out-earn bachelor’s degree holders

Berevan Omer graduated on a Friday in February with an associate’s degree from Nashville State Community College and started work the following Monday as a computer-networking engineer at a local television station, making about $50,000 a year. That’s 15% higher than the average starting salary for graduates — not only from community colleges, but for … Continue reading →

Over 50 / The new ‘unemployables’

Unemployed workers in their fifties are increasingly finding themselves stuck in limbo. On one hand, they’re too young to retire. They may also be too old to get re-hired. Call them the “new unemployables,” say researchers at Boston College. Older workers were less likely to lose their jobs during the recession, but those who were … Continue reading →

US / Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy. CBO develops estimates of ARRA’s effects on output and employment by looking at recorded spending to date … Continue reading →

British Gas / To create 1,000 ‘green jobs’

British Gas has unveiled plans to create 1,000 “green” jobs over the next three years for young, unemployed people. The energy giant has teamed up with environmental charity Global Action Plan and consultancy Accenture to provide free training to more than 1,400 young people not currently in education, employment or training. Each person who completes … Continue reading →

Making Yourself Employable

In today‟s graduate market a degree on its own is not usually enough to convince employers that you are worthy of a job. A survey carried out on behalf of the Institute of Directors (IoD) in October 2007 questioned 500 directors to gain their views on the skills and qualities they particularly valued in graduate … Continue reading →

Over-educated / College Degree Required

The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job. Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the college-educated population. Like other employers across the country, the … Continue reading →