Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
China / IBM to cut at least 500 job
International Business Machines Corp, the US technology giant, is cutting jobs in China after a disappointing decline in earnings. The world’s biggest computer service provider said in an e-mailed reply to China Daily on Wednesday, from its China office, that “change is constant” in the technology industry and that “transformation is an essential feature of … Continue reading
US Jobs Gap / States are closely mirroring the nation in terms of pace of recovery
Somewhat surprisingly, in contrast with past cycles a state’s job-growth performance in the recovery to date appears largely uncorrelated to its rate of job loss in the 2008 downturn. The job-growth rates in the ensuing recovery are clustered in a fairly tight range around the 4.8 percent U.S. average, suggesting that states are closely mirroring the nation in terms of pace of recovery Continue reading
Layoffs / The Incredible Shrinking Mining Sector
Who will be left to mine the world’s metals and minerals? As prices for gold, silver, copper, uranium, and iron ore continue to fall, miners are increasingly turning to layoffs to help meet the need to contain costs. Continue reading
US / Education gap widens Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce finds
The Education Gap, the projected shortfall between the demand for workers with university degrees and the supply of Americans who have them continues to widen, according to new research from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce Continue reading
Mexico / OECD Alerts About The ‘NiNis’, Ni Estudian, Ni Trabajan, the NEET
Mexico has the highest number of young people that neither study nor work. It is the third country, among those countries that belong to the OECD and ten more, with the biggest number of what they call “the NiNis” (Ni Estudian, Ni Trabajan) Continue reading
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Women lead in post-secondary education and Immigrants more educated than average Canadian
Canada’s New Census on Higher education: Women are continuing to outpace men, while newcomers are arriving in Canada with more post-secondary experience than the average canadian Continue reading
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Young backing away from skilled trades
Canada is facing a looming shortage in handy skilled trades workers — including mechanics, welders and construction staff — as the number of qualified older workers approaching retirement outnumbers younger ones, according to new data from Statistics Canada Continue reading
Job Search / How to Clean up Your Online Profiles
Here are five ways to protect your online profiles during a job search. Continue reading
Job Search / Nokia’s New Toll: JobLens
Nokia is giving job seekers a new tool in their job search: JobLens, an application that marries augmented reality and social networking Continue reading
Spain / 69 percent jump in NEETs between 2008 and 2011
One in four Spaniards aged 15–29 who have completed tertiary education, such as vocational training or the Bachillerato, are NEET — or neither employed nor in education or training Continue reading
Canada / Skilled workers lured west, Thx EI changes
Of all the provinces, Alberta registered in the 2011 survey as having the largest proportion of workers – 7.6 per cent – who were living in a different province five years earlier. Continue reading
Australia / Coal miners jobs cut by Peabody and Glencore Xstrata
Peabody Energy Corp and Glencore Xstrata will cut around 500 mining jobs in Australia, a company official and trade publication says, as a global glut in coal supply pushes down prices Continue reading
Australia / 600 SA Health jobs cut
Australia. Health Minister Jack Snelling has told a parliamentary committee that 600 full time equivalent jobs would be axed over the next four years. Continue reading
US / Immigration and the Job Market
The belief that immigration would simply displace American workers relies on the assumption that employers would do nothing but replace a costlier domestic labor force with cheaper imports. But companies actually invest and expand to reap the higher profits that the new labor allows. This provides new opportunities for immigrants and domestic workers alike Continue reading
US / A Jobs Recovery ? Charts
The recession ended four years ago. Bur the recovery is slow. Charts Continue reading
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