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Michel Cournoyer
Oklahoma | Google announces 50-job expansion
Google plans to double its server capacity in Oklahoma and add 50 new jobs when it builds a new facility in the state, company officials announced Wednesday. The new facility will be built next to the $600 million data centre Google opened near Pryor last fall, said data centre operations manager Mike Wooten. Google will … Continue reading
What Employers Want from the Long-Term Unemployed – Brent Rasmussen – Harvard Business Review
We often hear from job seekers: “If I have the necessary skills and experience, why am I not hearing back from more companies?” It’s a fair question, especially for the more than five million workers who’ve been unemployed for six months or longer (more than 40 percent of all unemployed job seekers). Struggling to get … Continue reading
U.S. | Inequality seen as a Major Problem in survey
A new Harris Poll examines the issue of inequality and whether or not it has potential traction in the presidential and congressional elections this fall. The results show that it could well be an important issue because a majority of Americans believe that inequality is a “major problem” and that it is important “that the … Continue reading
Older Workers | Swedih Companies | Among the worst
Despite a large share of Sweden’s senior work force en route for retirement in the next few years, Swedish companies are among the worst in the world at recruiting and keeping people over fifty in employment. According to a study carried out by recruitment agency Manpower, only eight percent of Swedish employers have a strategy … Continue reading
ADP | Businesses add jobs
Businesses added more than 200,000 jobs in March, giving fresh evidence of recovery in the labor market, data showed on Wednesday. The ADP National Employment Report showed the private sector added 209,000 positions last month, slightly above economists’ expectations for a gain of 200,000 jobs. Analysts said it did not change their forecasts for the … Continue reading
Gallup | Job market conditions in March: best level since August 2008
U.S. job market conditions in March reached their best level since August 2008, with Gallup’s Job Creation Index now at +18, up from +14 in February. This four-percentage-point increase is the largest one-month jump in the index that Gallup has recorded since instituting the measure in 2008. Source: Source: Read more @ Hiring at U.S. Workplaces … Continue reading
Europe | Tech Skills Gap a Myth?
It’s often claimed we are suffering an IT skills crisis of epic proportions: just recently the European Commission announced that by 2015 there will be an estimated shortfall of 700,000 IT professionals across Europe. And yet, academics have told TechRepublic there is little hard evidence of a shortage of IT workers, as neither pay levels nor … Continue reading
Jobs Search | Call Employers
Here are the tips for cold-calling that I got from my career counsellor: Go through the Yellow Pages and make a list of businesses you think you might enjoy working for. I found this pretty fun and encouraging, because it made me realize just how many businesses there are in Charlottetown that fit what I’m … Continue reading
Germany | Low Youth Unemployment
The protracted European debt crisis and austerity measures have made career prospects for many of the continent’s youth bleaker than ever. In Spain and Greece, nearly half of all those under age 25 are unemployed. But … that’s not the case in Germany. In stark contrast, Germany’s youth employment is the highest in Europe, with … Continue reading
The 1996 Welfare Reform and the Great Recession
The chart below puts these changes in a broad historical perspective. I used annual tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on employment among women by marital status for all women 16 and over (the tables are not separated for heads of households and spouses, as I did for my 2007-10 analysis). Source: Bureau of … Continue reading
UK | Skilled migrant cap frozen for two years
The British government has bowed to pressure from business by pledging to freeze the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK for two years. The annual limit on skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area will remain at 20,700 until April 2014, the Home Office said on Wednesday. Independent advisers … Continue reading
India | Infosys creates 10,000 jobs in Kerala
Infosys Limited, India’s second largest IT company, Wednesday signed an agreement with Technopark for 50 acres of land for setting up a second campus in Technocity near here. The agreement was signed by Infosys Senior Vice President H R Binod and Technopark CEO KG Girish Babu in the presence of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. Infosys … Continue reading
Canada | Layoffs begin for civilian defence workers
More than 1,000 civilian workers at the Department of National Defence will be told Wednesday that their jobs no longer exist. The cuts will hit affect Quebec and Ontario the most but the reductions will be felt across the country. At this point the jobs of 1,119 employees at DND have been identified but more … Continue reading
India | Robust hiring activities and 12% pay hike
Indicating a robust uptrend in the job market, a survey today said that 84 per cent of companies in India will ramp up their hiring activities this year and employees can look forward to an average pay hike of more than 12 per cent across most of the sectors. According to the survey conducted by … Continue reading
Canada Budget 2012: Federal Government Job Cuts and Grads
With the Harper government promising to slash 19,200 federal public service jobs, there is one group of people who stand to lose the most — the students and graduates working to become the next generation of civil servants. It’s a reality Sean O’Brady is acutely aware of as federal layoff notices go out this week, … Continue reading
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