Employers want graduates with so-called soft skills — those who can work well in teams, write and speak with clarity, adapt quickly to changes in technology and business conditions and interact with colleagues from different countries and cultures. “Soft skills tend to differentiate good college graduates from exceptional college graduates,” says Joseph Krok, university research liaison at Britain’s Rolls-Royce. Continue reading
At a time when governments at all levels are trimming staffs, college graduates hoping to land public-sector jobs are facing another hurdle: sequestration. Career counselors and recruiting experts say the federal spending cuts that went into effect March 1 are causing several federal agencies—many of which are having to furlough employees as a result of … Continue reading
Cloud computing: 14 million jobs by 2015? smartplanet.com – I’m not Convinced Cloud computing is about efficiency. Cloud computing is about replacing thousands of underutilized server rooms and IT departments with shared facilities with higher utilization r… JobMarketMon Romney’s Bain Record on Job Creation Attacked – Businessweek businessweek.com – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign attacked Mitt Romney’s … Continue reading