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Michel Cournoyer
India | Privacy invasion in job interviews
You may be very secretive otherwise, and not want to share your passwords for your email or social networking accounts, and rightly so. But what if it is your employer who is asking you for it? In what is branded as an unethical and a rather provocative measure, candidates looking for a job have been … Continue reading
For Dummies | Skills and Personal Qualities that Employers Want
Popular skills that employers want A roundup of several surveys suggests skills that employers often admire. The following list is representative but not comprehensive: Effective communication: Employers seek candidates who can listen to instructions and act on those instructions with minimal guidance. They want employees who speak, write, and listen effectively, organize their thoughts logically, … Continue reading
Don’t do that during an interview : the Seven Deadly Interview Sins
Here are seven deadly thing that you must not do during a job interview. Call them the Seven Deadly Interview Sins. Don’t Be Late To the Interview Don’t Show Up Unprepared Don’t Ask About Salary, Benefits, Perks Don’t Focus On Future Roles Instead Of The Job At Hand Don’t Turn The Weakness Question Into A … Continue reading
Who Is the Most Unemployed?
As the recent recession and recovery have demonstrated, the storms and lulls in the labor market are rarely felt evenly among its participants. A variety of factors, including education and industry concentration, mean that some groups will remain vulnerable to job losses. However, as the economic recovery gains speed, the employment prospects for all workers should continue to improve. Continue reading
Skills Gap | U.S. | Demand Rises for Skilled-Worker Visas
In a sign of the improving economy, the U.S. government said it saw a sharp rise in petitions for skilled-foreign-worker visas during the first week of this year’s application season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since April 2, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire … Continue reading
Ontario | Job training excludes half of unemployed
Making employment supports available to all job-seekers would level the playing field and help the province’s neediest escape poverty, says Ontario’s social services review commission, headed by Frances Lankin and Munir Sheikh. The commission’s final report, to be released in June, will also include recommendations on how to improve the administration of the province’s two … Continue reading
Sony | 10,000 Jobs will be cut
Sony Corp. plans to reduce its work force by an estimated 10,000 jobs, or roughly 6% of its global total, as part of a broader restructuring plan by Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai, people familiar with the matter said Monday. The cuts could be made over the next two fiscal years, ending in March 2014, though … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Will It Chill a Warming Job Market?
According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Jobs Outlook Survey for the second quarter of 2012, 58 percent of respondents have some level of confidence in the U.S. labor market and expect job growth for the April-to-June 2012 time frame. That’s up sharply from 34 percent of respondents in the fourth quarter of 2011. … Continue reading
Unemployment Stat | Tea Party | Can we call this the “truth in government statistics” law?
There are lies, damn lies and then there are the unemployment statistics given to us by the Obama Regime. If you believe the unemployment numbers the Obama Regime is giving us, I have some ocean front property in Nashville I would like to sell you. However, if at least one Republican (Rep. Duncan D. Hunter … Continue reading
Employer | Facebook Password | What to Do ?
Could you imagine a job interview during which your interviewer asks you for your Facebook password? Well folks, it’s happening and you should know what to do when it happens to you. Let’s go over some things you can do to protect yourself on a job interview. Don’t forget: You have the right to a … Continue reading
Skills Gap | B.C. and Alberta | You can’t just put up a help-wanted ad or hang out a shingle
News that oilsands recruiters have been appearing at British Columbia’s junior hockey games isn’t going over well with the resource sector on this side of the provincial border who are chasing the same pool of skilled workers. B.C.’s mining, forestry and energy sectors are expecting to need as many as 10,000 people over the next … Continue reading
Vocational Education in Sri Lanka
The NVQ system provides a strong basis for quality vocational training but the devil is in its implementation. First, there has to be a hunger and appreciation for quality learning and training rather than certificate collection. That means learning problem solving and practical skills that make one employable. Secondly, a test of employability is critical. … Continue reading
Taiwan | Low pay means a brain drain
Low salaries are the main reason that Taiwan has failed to retain local talent and attract skilled foreign workers, Pan Shih-wei, deputy minister of the country’s Council of Labor Affairs, said Friday. Pan made the remarks in response to a comment by Singapore’s deputy prime minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who recently singled Taiwan out as a … Continue reading
Emirates | More Europeans Coming for Jobs
With euro zone unemployment at an all-time high, big influx of job-seekers in UAE and region expected As the euro zone unemployment rate hits all-time high, the number of candidates looking to come to the UAE and the region has gone up. This may be good news for employers who are looking for a bigger … Continue reading
Indiana | Wage gap | One of the largest
April 17 is national Equal Pay Day, when women and men around the country recognize the wage gap between working women and men and offer remedies to address pay inequity. According to the 2010 Census, women are paid on average 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid for the same work. But … Continue reading
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