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Michel Cournoyer
Tunisia | Poll Shows Impatience with Employment Policy
Public discontent over the issue of unemployment appears to be growing despite the efforts of the interim government to address the deteriorating job situation in Tunisia. According to a poll released by SIGMA Conseil, 61.5 % of Tunisians are dissatisfied with the employment policy of the government and 56% of Tunisians are dissatisfied with the policy … Continue reading
Georgia and Florida cut the duration of unemployment benefits
Georgia is vying with Florida for the title of stingiest state, when it comes to jobless residents. The Republican-controlled State Legislature passed a bill last week to cut the duration of unemployment benefits from a current maximum of 26 weeks to a range from 14 weeks to 20 weeks, depending on the state unemployment rate. … Continue reading
Strategies to Attract, Engage and Retain Older Workers
The Sloan Center on Aging & Work conducts research on innovative practices that address the needs of older workers and business. In 2011, the Centre launched a project titled “Flex Strategies to Attract, Engage & Retain Older Workers”. Report main findings. Continue reading
‘Fix Young America’ aims to recruit Stephen Colbert
Fix Young America, a digitally crowd-funded movement which promotes youth entrepreneurship, is going after satirical talk-show host Stephen Colbert to act as its spokesperson, the Daily Beast reported. 28-year-old Scott Gerber, whose Young Entrepreneur Council and Gen Y Capital Partners non-profit groups aim to put an end to unemployment among young Americans, is the mastermind … Continue reading
How Unemployment Leave Europe’s Young ?
Larry Hatheway, Managing Director and Head of Global Asset Allocation, UBS Investment Bank, noted earlier this month that high levels of youth unemployment were “clearly undesirable” and policy priorities in the euro zone should shift the focus from managing the debt crisis to address joblessness. “Youth unemployment rates probably understate the true level of joblessness … Continue reading
More Than Half Youth are unemploymed in Spain and Greece
The unemployment rate among Spain’s under-25s rose to 50.5pc in January, and to 50.4pc in Greece in December, according to the latest available data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office. It compared with an average eurozone youth unemployment rate of 21.6pc. One of the lowest rates of youth unemployment is in Germany, where it … Continue reading
Austerity Is a Disaster – The Atlantic
Euro zone unemployment just hit a 15-year high. German unemployment just hit a 15-year low. What can those of us across the Atlantic glean from this seemingly bipolar state of affairs? That austerity, every economic conservative’s favorite prescription for an ailing economy — the medicine Republicans here in the United States are pushing hard — is … Continue reading
India and UK will work towards broad based trade and investment agreement
India and UK on Monday agreed to remain fully committed to resolving the remaining issues and work towards concluding a mutually beneficial India-EU Broad based trade and investment agreement at the earliest. A joint press statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of UK, George Osborne, and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee after the fifth round … Continue reading
Canada | Tomorrow announcement | Federal public employees anxious as job cuts loom – CTV News
Axe to fall on public service Wednesday, say unions The axe hovering over the head of Canada’s public service is expected to begin falling Wednesday when thousands of public servants will receive notice their positions with the federal government are being eliminated. Unions representing government employees say the workforce-adjustment notices have begun “pouring in” from … Continue reading
India | Defence Manufacturing Sector can create 1 million new Jobs
It is expected that India would become the third largest defence spender after the US and China by 2014. Equipment spending by MoD increased at 15% – 20% over the last five years, and is expected to continue growing at least in the mid-term. With several large equipment and modernization programs in the pipeline, analysts … Continue reading
Dow shutters plants on 3 continents, cuts 900 jobs, in response to economic woes in Europe | CanadianBusiness.com
Dow Chemical will cut 900 jobs and shutter plants on three continents because of weakness in Europe, which may soon tip back into recession of it has not done so already. Dow was ravaged during the global and economic crisis that struck four years ago, cutting more than 10,000 positions then. CEO Andrew Liveris has … Continue reading
Two-Thirds of Young Arab Women Remain Out of Workforce According to a Gallup Survey
About one in three young Arab women between the ages of 23 and 29 participate in their country’s labor force versus about eight in 10 young Arab men. This gender gap is generally consistent across the 22 Arab countries and territories Gallup surveyed in 2011, but young women’s labor force participation is slightly higher in … Continue reading
HR | Human Capital Trends 2012 – Deloitte
“It’s fitting that 2012 is a leap year, since a number of converging market trends are driving HR organizations to make significant leaps in capabilities and performance. HR faces a critical, dual imperative in 2012 — a focus on enabling both their organization’s overall growth agenda and on driving efficiency in the business of HR. … Continue reading
The Academic Achievement Gap is Widening
The socioeconomic status of a child’s parents has always been one of the strongest predictors of the child’s academic achievement and educational attainment… Students in the bottom quintile of family socioeconomic status score more than a standard deviation below those in the top quintile on standardized tests of math and reading when they enter kindergarten… These differences … Continue reading
Technology Professionals Resume | 10 Tips
These ten tips can help tech professionals optimize their resumes in order to nab that great gig. 1. Understand Attention Spans 2. Make It an Appropriate Length 3. General Summaries Bad, Technical Summaries Good 4. Dates Matter 5. Highlight Accomplishments, Not Just Job Functions 6. Quality Writing Still Matters 7. Use Action Verbs 8. There … Continue reading
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