Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
India – A new govn’t online employment portal
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Digital India” programme, the government on Monday launched a digital employment exchange that will enable industrial enterprises to find suitable workers and job-seekers to find employment. The government initiative is aimed at strengthening communication between stakeholders and improving efficiencies in service delivery in the micro, small and medium … Continue reading
Australia – More than five million jobs gone to computerisation and automation in 10 to 15 years
More than five million jobs, almost 40 per cent of Australian jobs that exist today, have a moderate to high likelihood of disappearing in the next 10 to 15 years due to technological advancements, a CEDA report being released today has found. Australia and the world is on the cusp of a new but very … Continue reading
Statoil Cutting up to 1,500 Permanent Jobs – WSJ
Norway’s Statoil launched the next phase of its efficiency program on Tuesday, announcing it would cut between 1,100 and 1,500 permanent employees by the end of 2016 as it looks to increase efficiency and strengthen competitiveness. The oil and gas major said a further 525 consultant positions will also be cut, while additional changes … Continue reading
Internship in US – 70.8 Percent of employers want to convert students into full-time, entry-level employees survey finds
Key findings PROGRAM STRUCTURE Nearly all respondents to this survey had a formal internship program (92.0 percent). Less than half had a co-op program (45.1 percent). The primary focus of most employers’ internship and co-op programs is to convert students into full-time, entry-level employees (70.8 percent and 62.6 percent, respectively). Very few employers required their … Continue reading
Mobile Phones of the Unemployed – The number of calls dropped by 51 percent study finds
A study co-authored by MIT researchers shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people’s communications patterns change when they are not working. Indeed, using a plant closing in Europe as the basis for their study, the researchers found that in the months following layoffs, the total number of … Continue reading
Skills Gap in UK Digital and Creative Sector – 1.2 Million new workers needed between 2012 and 2022
The UK digital and creative sector has grown rapidly in recent years. It contributes almost nine per cent of total UK GVA and employs 2.1 million people. Digitisation of the wider economy is driving extremely strong demand for digital services, and the recent widening of tax relief has stimulated very strong growth in certain areas … Continue reading
Prince Edward Island – Immigration not enough
Immigration has slowed the rate of aging of the P.E.I. population over the last five years, but it is still likely that 50 per cent of the population will be older than 45 by 2019. The good news is that this means the unemployment rate is likely to fall dramatically over the next decade, as … Continue reading
Job Search – Tips for a skills interview
1. Be prepared to offer examples of the work you’ve done: have you worked on logical or physical design or data conversion/migration projects? Have you ever lead a project? Similarly, you should think about the software and systems you know how to use, such as Siebel, SRM Organization, or SQL for a technology consulting role, … Continue reading
Bangladesh – Where is the demographic dividend ?
In Bangladesh, the proportion of the population at or below working age is among the highest in the world and almost a third of the population is between ages 15-30. A young population means a young workforce full of innovation and productivity. However, youth unemployment in Bangladesh remains a festering wound to the economy — … Continue reading
The Education Gap around the World – It’s going to take another 100 years to fill it
In the last 200 years, the number of children attending primary school globally has grown from 2.3 million to 700 million today, covering nearly 90 percent of the world’s school-age children. But the gulf in average levels of education between rich and poor countries remains huge. Without a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to education, … Continue reading
Contingent Workforce in US – More likely to have no high school degree and have low family income.
The size of the contingent workforce as a proportion of the total U.S. employed labor force can range widely, depending on how it is defined. Narrower definitions generally focus on employment that is temporary, and can result in estimates of less than 5 percent. Broader definitions include various employment arrangements, such as on-call, part-time, and … Continue reading
Temporary Help Employment in US – Accounts for a large share of gross job losses and job gains
The temporary help industry accounts for about 2 percent of average daily employment in the U.S. economy but plays an outsized role in workforce adjustment during recessions and recoveries. During the last recession, the largest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, employment in the temporary help industry contracted by 30 percent and accounted for … Continue reading
The skills gap in US – How companies can fill it
The labor market, meanwhile, has steadily bifurcated, with menial low-wage jobs on one end and high-skill, high-wage careers on the other. Technology and competition from emerging markets have undermined those in the middle. Yet at the same time, there’s a skills gap: in the US, nearly two-thirds of companies report having positions for which they … Continue reading
HSBC – To cut 50,000 jobs
HSBC (HSBA.L) pledged a new era of higher dividends on Tuesday, laying out plans to slash nearly one in five jobs and shrink its investment bank by a third to combat sluggish growth across its sprawling empire. Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver has made it his mission to boost profits since taking the helm of Europe’s … Continue reading
Online talent platforms could add $2.7 trillion McKinsey finds
Labor markets around the world haven’t kept pace with rapid shifts in the global economy, and their inefficiencies have taken a heavy toll. Millions of people cannot find work, even as sectors from technology to healthcare struggle to fill open positions. Many who do work feel overqualified or underutilized. These issues translate into costly wasted … Continue reading
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