Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
UK / Flagship government employment program finds jobs for only 3.5 % of participants
Private companies running a flagship government employment scheme have put only 3.5 percent of clients into sustainable jobs, statistics published on Tuesday showed. The British coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in June 2011 to help the long-term unemployed find work, divides the country into regions, with each comprising a range of private, public and voluntary … Continue reading
US / Unemployment Benefits / How Long Can You Collect ? (Infographics)
The following maps show the maximum duration of benefits in each state by year. .Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from via How Long Can You Collect Unemployment Benefits? – Real Time Economics – WSJ.
OECD / Global economy facing hesitant and uneven recovery (video)
The global economy is expected to make a hesitant and uneven recovery over the coming two years. Decisive policy action is needed to ensure that stalemate over fiscal policy in the United States and continuing euro area instability do not plunge the world back into recession, the OECD said in its latest Economic Outlook. via … Continue reading
Sudan / Brain Drain / 75,361 left the country looking for better future between 2008-2012
Again it is brain drain, though this time with an alarming pace. In just five years between 2008-2012 a total of 75,361, or more than six fold increase during the period under review, left the country looking for better future mainly in the Gulf states and in particular in Saudi Arabia. A breakdown of the … Continue reading
Northern Ireland / Concentrix Technologies creating 100 IT jobs
Concentrix Technologies is part of the international Synnex Corporation, and provides customer relationship management (CRM) software. Invest Northern Ireland is providing financial support of £749,000. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster met representatives of the company recently. “I am pleased such high quality jobs have been secured for local people,” she said. “These jobs will deliver in … Continue reading
Britain / Brain Drain / Almost 5,200 university leavers sought employment elsewhere
Almost 5,200 university leavers sought employment in mainland Europe, the Far East and North America last year – up by 1,000 since the start of the economic crisis. Official figures show that graduates from the very best universities are significantly more likely to be tempted overseas, prompting fears that Britain’s most talented young people were … Continue reading
Newport / Walmart hiring 400 workers
Walmart plans to hire 400 workers for its new Walmart Supercenter and Neighborhood Market stored opening in Newport News. Walmart has opened a hiring center to make it easy to apply. You can stop by the hiring center located at 10524 Jefferson Avenue in Newport News Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. … Continue reading
France / SFR telecom may cut 1,100 jobs
SFR, the French mobile-telephone unit of media and telecom group Vivendi SA , may cut 1,100 jobs as market conditions grew more difficult for the company after telecom firm Iliad ILIAF +2.62% launched a low-cost mobile-telephone service this year, newspaper Les Echos reports Monday citing a labor union official. The company, which is due to … Continue reading
Almost a third of the entire manufacturing industry jobs have disappeared since 2000
Nearly six million factory jobs, almost a third of the entire manufacturing industry, have disappeared since 2000. And while many of these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of 10, or in some cases, 100 workers. Those jobs are not coming … Continue reading
Fiscal Cliff / Unemployment Benefits will abruptly end for 2 million in dec., and nearly one million more in the first quarter of 2013
Because over five million workers will be unable to collect federal UI benefits next year if Congress fails to act, NELP is calling upon Congress to make this issue a priority during the lame-duck session of the 112th Congress. Not only should Congress reauthorize the EUC program in its current form for the next year, it … Continue reading
New York / 5,000 Temporary Jobs in Sandy Stricken Areas
New York State will hire more than 5,000 unemployed residents in temporary positions to help clean up debris and distribute supplies in areas stricken by Hurricane Sandy, the Cuomo administration announced on Sunday. The jobs will pay roughly $15 an hour and could last as long as six months. They will be available to residents … Continue reading
Brazil / Gol to cut 850 jobs
Gol Linhas Aéreas SA, Brazil’s second-largest airline, will cut as many as 850 jobs and reduce its fleet next year as a result of the closure of its Webjet subsidiary, the company said in a securities filing on Friday. The company will book an unspecified charge this quarter, according to the filing, adding that the … Continue reading
Job Search on Craigslist / 5 Red flags
If ever there were a go-to place for, well, everything, Craigslist might just be it. Founded in 1995 as an email list of events happening in the San Francisco area, Craigslist has grown to be one of the most well-known websites for free classified listings and community forums. From housing to garage sales to personal ads to, … Continue reading
Australia / Workplace Bullying / Inquiry calls for hotline
A parliamentary inquiry into workplace bullying has urged the Federal Government to set up a national service to provide practical advice on what constitutes bullying and how to deal with it. The service would include a hotline where both employees and employers could receive help to prevent and resolve cases of bullying. The inquiry by … Continue reading
Graduate employability / Heading for a working life of 10,000 days
We’re sleepwalking into a crisis. There is much talk of the ‘lost generation’ of frustrated, angry, debt-ridden 20-somethings with diminishing career prospects. Yet employers continue to wring their hands as they pore over inadequate job applications or realise they’ve hired graduates with little grasp of what the world of work actually requires of them. So … Continue reading
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