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India / From Job Centres to Employability Centres
Minister for Labour and Rehabilitation Shibu Baby John on Saturday said that the employment exchanges in the state would be converted into Employability Centres with the introduction of the Additional Skill Enhancement Programme (ASEP). The project is aimed at converting Employment Exchanges into employment generation centres. These employability centres are being established to change the … Continue reading
India / Employability / Classle launches ‘Ready Steady Jobs’
Classle has launched Ready Steady Jobs, a programme to tackle the employability issue. The training, according to Vaidya Nathan, Chief Executive and Founder of Classle, would consist of a series of video tutorials, discussions and assignments, targeted at helping students develop the skills required to land a satisfying job. ‘It is open to students across … Continue reading
India / Employability / The AMCAT – Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Testing
An oft-repeated grouse by the industry that only 25 per cent of the graduates are employable continues to be a niggling worry for institutions. Realising that it is essential to effectively measure the employability level of students to show the institutions where they stood to take remedial measures or improve, Aspiring Minds, an employability measurement … Continue reading
Autism / Employability and “Phenomenal Talent”
Peter Bell with Autism Speaks spoke of the employability of individuals with autism during a visit to Exceptional Minds vocational school for young adults on the autism spectrum last month. “Most of the world doesn’t know yet that there is phenomenal talent here in Sherman Oaks, in this room,“ said Peter Bell to a roomful … Continue reading
Over 50 / The new ‘unemployables’
Unemployed workers in their fifties are increasingly finding themselves stuck in limbo. On one hand, they’re too young to retire. They may also be too old to get re-hired. Call them the “new unemployables,” say researchers at Boston College. Older workers were less likely to lose their jobs during the recession, but those who were … Continue reading
Making Yourself Employable
In today‟s graduate market a degree on its own is not usually enough to convince employers that you are worthy of a job. A survey carried out on behalf of the Institute of Directors (IoD) in October 2007 questioned 500 directors to gain their views on the skills and qualities they particularly valued in graduate … Continue reading
India / Unemployable engineers on menial jobs
Seven years ago Raja Kumar, a butcher, did not think twice about mortgaging his land to fund his son’s engineering education. Little did he know that his son Senthil Kumar would pass out four years later learning less than enough to get a job suitable to his level of education. After searching for a job … Continue reading
UK / The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand
In The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand, Gaby Atfield and Kate Purcell examine 3rd year UK undergraduate degree final year students’ perceptions of the skills they have to offer and the skills employers seek. Main findings As they approached the end of their undergraduate courses, over 80% of respondents believed that they have the skills employers are likely to be … Continue reading
Employability / Top 10 Skills and more
University of Kent, based on a number of surveys on the skills required by graduates undertaken by Microsoft, Target Jobs, the BBC, Prospects, NACE and AGR and other organisations, has produced a summary of the skills which were most often deemed important.has. Each element are clikable so you get more details on the skill. For … Continue reading
University of Northampton pushes ‘employability skills’, only 4 % of its undergraduates unemployed
The University of Northampton is one of England’s younger universities: it only won the status in 2005. But it is also top of the league when it comes to getting its students into work. In 2010-11, six months after leaving the university, only 4 per cent of its former undergraduates were unemployed. Explaining its success, … Continue reading
Community Colleges / Job Retraining Programs: Getting back into the workforce
Community colleges have long played a key role as an entryway to better career opportunities for adults in the workforce. But with the job market more competitive than ever and the unemployment rate stubbornly stuck near 8%, community colleges across the country are launching new initiatives that are more aggressive in helping unemployed Americans find … Continue reading
Graduate employability / Heading for a working life of 10,000 days
We’re sleepwalking into a crisis. There is much talk of the ‘lost generation’ of frustrated, angry, debt-ridden 20-somethings with diminishing career prospects. Yet employers continue to wring their hands as they pore over inadequate job applications or realise they’ve hired graduates with little grasp of what the world of work actually requires of them. So … Continue reading
Employability And The Economy
Employability is based on a set of individual characteristics. It is not equivalent to employment, but rather a prerequisite for (gainful) employment. It pertains to someone’s relative ability to obtain and maintain gainful employment, as well as make successful transitions from one job to the next, either within the same company or field or to … Continue reading
Universities / Employability / Professional experience and interpersonal skills are the biggest areas of improvement for graduates
The Global Employability Survey is an online survey conducted amongst recruiters in 20 countries worldwide with the objective of determining what makes the ideal graduate on a longer term. The survey focuses on the following subjects: What qualities should the ideal graduate have? What qualities make a graduate more employable in the long run? Which … Continue reading
US | Colleges and Universities | Only 29 pc of students have received career and job help
Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm and StudentAdvisor.com, a Washington Post Company and the leading free learning resource for students, today announced a new report on how students are developing their careers while in college. The report, The Student Career Development Study, shows that students are not aggressively preparing for their post-college … Continue reading
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