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ICT Skills Gap in Canada – There won’t be enough qualified people to fill more than 218,000 new jobs
Canada’s tech companies are in stiff competition for retaining top prospects. There won’t be enough qualified people to fill more than 218,000 new information and communications technology jobs in the country by 2020, according to a report published by the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) earlier this month. That may be years away, but … Continue reading
Linkedin – Un guide pour la recherche
Voici donc quelques étapes à apprivoiser pour exploiter au mieux les diverses possibilités offertes par la recherche avec Linkedin. Premières bases d’une recherche Linkedin Si vous recherchez des présidents d’entreprise, vous n’avez qu’à saisir le mot-clé dans la barre de recherche principale, en prenant soin de sélectionner le filtre de gauche sur «personnes» et lancer la … Continue reading
Employment Insurance in Canada – Five key changes
Last federal budget outlined multiple changes coming to the employment insurance program that combined will have a total cost this year of $1.02 billion and almost $1.45 billion next year. Here are five key changes: 1) The Liberals are promising to add five weeks of eligibility up to a maximum of 50 weeks of regular … Continue reading
Education, Skills and Economic Opportunity in US – Fourteen Economic Facts
The Payoff to Skills is High Fact 1: Both cognitive and soft skills—such as perseverance, tenacity, and social skills—play an important role in shaping economic outcomes. Fact 2: The skills premium has increased dramatically. Fact 3: Educational attainment has increased in the United States, especially among women. Fact 4: Americans who did not attend college form … Continue reading
College in US – A’s were the most common grade
A’s were the most common grade on college campuses in 2013, accounting for 45% of grades awarded to students, according to an analysis of grade data at more than 80 schools by Stuart Rojstaczer, an independent researcher, and Chris Healy, a computer science professor at Furman University. By contrast, college students were most likely to … Continue reading
Canada – The Labour Force Survey can be kind of a mess
Part of the problem is shifting human behaviour: The Labour Force Survey relies on people voluntarily responding and telling strangers all about their work situation. And when was the last time you answered a call from a number you didn’t know? “People are less likely to take these surveys and answer the phone than they … Continue reading
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) – Three key opportunities to use technology
To thrive in the 21st century, students need more than traditional academic learning. They must be adept at collaboration, communication and problem-solving, which are some of the skills developed through social and emotional learning (SEL). Coupled with mastery of traditional skills, social and emotional proficiency will equip students to succeed in the swiftly evolving digital … Continue reading
Recruitment – Most hiring is a blind date, and referrals are an introduction
Hiring team members requires filtering for different hard and soft skills, so that new employees can slip into established patterns of company behavior. In this case, many companies depend on asking their employees to double as HR recruiters by leaning on referrals. Researchers have long known that referrals surface better job candidates. Referred candidates are … Continue reading
White-Guy Jobs Gap in US – 2.3 percentage points (or about 1.1 million jobs), a larger shortfall than any other group
By some measures, people in their prime working years have a long way to go to recoup the losses of the 2007-09 recession — and white men are further behind than most. On average over the three months through March, a nonseasonally adjusted 86 percent of white men between the ages of 25 and 54 were … Continue reading
$15 Minimum Wage Proposals in US – Pieces on the raging debate
The plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 in California and New York are ambitious and welcome at a time when the eroding value of the federal minimum wage means more and more working families can afford less and less. California’s minimum wage would reach $15 in 2023 for all employees and in 2022 … Continue reading
Wages Growth in US – Wage are indded growing with the decline of unemployment
Wage growth — described as slow and unconvincing by Federal Reserve officials plotting their path to higher interest rates — is more robust by some measures than commonly acknowledged due to changes in the composition of the workforce. With unemployment close to the lowest in eight years, accelerating pay gains would force Fed Chair Janet … Continue reading
Pushy, Unprofessional Recruiters – Six times you can and must say no
Although there are tremendous recruiters in every industry, they are outnumbered by the pushy, unprofessional recruiters so many job-seekers have come to know and despise. Here are six times you can and must say “Nope!” to a recruiter’s demand if you want to be taken seriously as a job candidate and as a professional: • … Continue reading
La Formations des Salariés en France – Premiers indicateurs de l’enquête Defis (graphiques)
Le dispositif d’enquêtes sur les formations et itinéraires des salariés (Defis), livre dans ce document une première série d’indicateurs sur le recours des entreprises à la formation, leur politique en matière d’information des salariés, de mobilité et de recrutement, les organismes qui les conseillent… Les indicateurs sont croisés selon la taille et le secteur de … Continue reading
Education in US – 8th Grade achievement and parents education level
Children born to well-educated parents are likely to have an advantage, even of the parents are not, or do not remain, married. Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Zill has crunched a longitudinal dataset from the Department of Education. Zill finds that most children (9 in 10) have parents with the same level … Continue reading
Involuntary Part-Time in US – Increased incidence during recessions research finds
In this paper we argue that involuntary part-time work has been overlooked by research on the dynamics of labor markets, which has mainly focused on unemployment. The notion of involuntary part-time work is closely related to that of unemployment, in that both entail a constraint on workers’ desired labor supply. An individual is considered to … Continue reading
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