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PNC lowers plan for layoffs by 100 – NewsObserver.com
PNC Financial Services Group, which is on the verge of completing its acquisition of RBC Bank, has found new jobs for nearly 100 workers in Raleigh and Rocky Mount whose current positions are being eliminated. The bank is still working on finding new jobs for others who are facing layoffs, PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said … Continue reading
Starting Your Career: Use Social Media for Job Interview Prep | CareerBliss.com
A few days before the interview, you should get copies of your resume together and start thinking about responses to common interview questions and questions of your own to ask the prospective employer. As you prepare for the big meeting, don’t overlook social media. These days, employers spend a lot of time looking at your social … Continue reading
Submit Resume – Talent hunt now simple and quick with Submit Resume
Search the ideal candidate for your vacancies, close job openings faster by registering with Submit Resume. It has the largest database of India-wide job seekers across various industries and locations. Finding the most suitable candidate for your vacancies is now faster, easier and cost effective than ever. Submit Resume, a job portal, has a massive … Continue reading
Solving the Inefficient Student Job Market
StudentJobsEverywhere.com launched its job matching service aimed at addressing the historical issues pertaining to hiring students. The service provides organizations access to the 16 to 26 year old market across Canada, in one convenient location. Jobs can be posted free of charge. The service matches the organization’s requirements such as skills, experience, location, with those … Continue reading
Job Search Differences Between Today and Yesterday | CAREEREALISM
Here they are: 1. Google Has Replaced the Resume 2. A Summary is Enough 3. Social Proof is a Must 4. Resumes and Cover Letters Are Not Read on Paper Anymore 5. Relationships First, Resume’s Second 6. Employers Only Care About What They Want 7. Don’t Mind the Gap 8. Nouns Are the New Currency … Continue reading
Bank of America to freeze pension plan
Bank of America announced plans Thursday to freeze pension plans, effective in July, and increase its 401(k) contributions instead. Eligible employees will keep the pension benefits that they’ve earned to date but will not receive additional benefits, Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) spokesman Scott Silvestri said. The company will instead begin making an additional … Continue reading
Skills Gap | US : Toward a well-prepared workforce
High and lasting unemployment is the fate of several OECD countries. But at the same time, employers widely report difficulty finding qualified and skilled workers. That used to be called “structural unemployment”. More and more analysts call it the Skills Gap. It has been observed for a long time in countries, or part of them, … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Mismatch in the Labor Market: The Supply of and Demand for “Middle-Skill” Workers in New England
Alicia Sasser Modestino reports in the Journal of the NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION a very common concern that concerned that the region’s slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will lead to a shortage of skilled labor—particularly when the baby boom generation retires. “Prior to the Great … Continue reading
Bank of Montreal cuts 60 capital markets jobs
Bank of Montreal has cut 60 jobs at its capital markets division, and Canada’s No. 4 bank said staff reductions are due to concerns about productivity in the current capital markets environment. “The reductions are part of our focus on productivity and we would expect to continue to be hiring over the course of the … Continue reading
India | Now, a college degree in vocational education – Times Of India
For years, India’s basic collegiate education had been segregated into three distinct academic islands: the masses pursued humanities, the ones with shining score cards took to the sciences and the rest who wanted to pick up the tools of trade, opted for commerce. Now students can venture into a fourth dimension: a bachelor’s in vocation … Continue reading
Centrica, British Gas Parent, Cuts 2,300 Jobs – International Business Times
Centrica, parent company of British Gas, slashed 2,300 jobs to save £500 million ($784.9 million) on the heels of disappointing profits brought by a mild winter that cut household energy consumption. The utility saw a 30 percent drop in annual operating profit at British Gas to $819.5 million, or $78.58 per household, after winter arrived with … Continue reading
Co-Workers Get a Chance to Change Places – WSJ.com
Employers are mixing it up. Jobs, that is. Some U.S. businesses are giving employees the chance to complete a stint in a different department or temporarily swap places with a colleague overseas. Companies have long provided job rotations for higher level executives to give them a sense of how different departments operate, but now they … Continue reading
Windsor, Ont., poised to get 500 new manufacturing jobs – Windsor – CBC News
Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis confirmed Thursday the city is close to landing 500 much-needed manufacturing jobs. Francis called talks between BYD Company Limited and the City of Windsor “pretty advanced.” He also said that Windsor is “further ahead than other cities” when it comes to convincing the Chinese electric bus builder to set up shop. … Continue reading
Merck KGaA to cut costs, jobs | Reuters
German drugs and chemicals group Merck KGaA announced plans on Friday for a cost-cutting programme across all its businesses that may include job cuts. “Over the next two years Merck needs to address unprecedented market shifts, increasing competition in key product areas and existing inefficiencies in its own organization to ensure the long-term success of … Continue reading
Austerity in Europe Puts Pressure on Drug Companies
Profits at pharmaceutical companies have been declining or showing little growth for the last year as austerity measures across Europe lead to cuts in health care spending. Some analysts say this trend could continue until at least 2014. Budget cuts mean that many European governments are not willing to pay as much for pills. But … Continue reading
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