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EU – Stimulating car industry
The European Union on Thursday launched an action plan to bolster the struggling car industry – its first concerted response to a worsening crisis that is hurting some of the continent’s biggest companies and endangering tens of thousands of jobs. Carmakers welcomed the plan’s long-term measures to support the sector but urged the EU to … Continue reading
Ford – 2,000 Entry-Level New Employees
Ford Motor Co. (F) has hired more than 2,000 entry-level factory workers this year so far, lowering its overall manufacturing costs, a Ford manufacturing executive said. The new hires represent the first wave of workers paid an entry-level wage that is about $10 per hour lower than the existing workers. The so-called second-tier wage was … Continue reading
Layoffs Don’t Benefit Hospitals
Dean Gruner, MD, and Chris Van Gorder are not your everyday health system CEOs. Dr. Gruner is president and CEO of ThedaCare, a five-hospital system in Appleton, Wis., with roughly 6,100 employees. Mr. Van Gorder, a former police officer, is president and CEO of Scripps Health, a five-hospital system in San Diego with almost 13,000 … Continue reading
Boeing | To cut 30 percent of management jobs
Boeing Co said on Wednesday it will restructure its defense, space and security business and cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels as part of a broad cost-cutting drive. Boeing, the Pentagon’s second-largest supplier, said it also will close some facilities in California and consolidate several business units in an effort to trim … Continue reading
Hawker Beechcraft Announces Layoffs to more than 400 employees
A letter sent by Hawker Beechcraft to its employees Wednesday informed them that the company would be cutting workers and closing specific facilities, resulting in job losses for more than 400 employees. Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark., Mesa, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas, will “begin the process of closing,” shedding some 240 … Continue reading
UK | Brain Drain | Almost half of those who emigrate are professionals and company managers
Almost half of all Britons who emigrate each year are professionals and company managers, potentially threatening the country’s supply of highly skilled workers, research for the Home Office found. The attractions of a better lifestyle and climate, as well as career opportunities, meant a “large and increasing” number of executives, scientists, academics and doctors have … Continue reading
Australia | More jobs but participation shrinks
Australia’s unemployment rate remained steady in October, but there were fewer people looking for jobs and fewer hours being worked. Official figures released on Thursday showed the unemployment rate remained at 5.4 per cent in October, with 10,700 extra people finding employment in the month. However, the percentage of working age Australians either employed or … Continue reading
Inequality, Source of Macroeconomic Instability – Keynes View
While Keynes rejected the view that over-saving could be a cause of slump, he recognized that it was more difficult to maintain continuous full employment in an economy in which wealth and income are highly unequal…. So what should governments do? Keynes suggested three expedients: they could either increase their own spending out of loans, … Continue reading
India – Training – Infosys Trains 100,000 students on skill enhancement
Infosys BPO Ltd., the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys, on Thursday announced that Project Genesis, its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, has trained more than 100,000 students across India to enhance their level of employability in the ITeS industry. Project Genesis is an industry-academia partnership initiative that was launched in Karnataka by Infosys … Continue reading
Directory of Twitter job feeds
For the United States @jobs_now – all kinds of jobs @37jobs – high tech jobs @jobsintech – more high tech jobs @robojobs – even more high tech jobs @sfmobilejobs – Jobs for the Mobile Web and Digital Media in Silicon Valley, Seattle, LA and NYC. @medical_jobs – medical jobs or just adjacent, like special education @hrcrossing – human resources jobs @fish4jobs – all … Continue reading
10 Job Search Websites and Other Resources
Online Job Search Websites CareerBuilder : As the U.S.’s largest online job site, CareerBuilder.com puts over 1.6 million jobs in front of poised job seekers wherever they are “at home or work “ in print and on the Internet. More than 49. 23 million unique visitors come to the site every month to check out … Continue reading
US | Destroying Its Education System ?
A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns … Continue reading
10 jobs that attract the most and the least psychopaths
You could easily be working in the company of a psychopath, according to a new book, because psychopaths tend to gravitate towards and thrive in professions that offer power and require cutthroat decision making. The book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success has outlined the ten … Continue reading
Africa | Agriculture and self-employment for youth unemployed
Unemployment among young people in Africa is increasingly recognised as a first order development challenge. Coming on the heels of sustained investment in education and unprecedented but largely jobless economic growth, the possibility of a ‘lost generation’ of young people, for whom meaningful and rewarding work is little more than a mirage, poses a fundamental … Continue reading
New Zealand | Unemployment the highest in 13 years
Latest figures show more and more New Zealanders are out of work, with unemployment the highest in 13 years. Experts are calling it “shocking” while unions say it’s a “national crisis”. And the unemployment rate of 7.3% even took the Prime Minister by surprise although he has questioned if his own statisticians have got it … Continue reading
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