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Slow Job Recovery | Low-Wage Jobs to Be Blamed
Slower-than-expected employment growth in March 2012 has brought the halting pace of economic recovery into sharp focus again. Nearly three years since the recession officially ended in June of 2009, 12.7 million people are still out of work and unable to find a job—a figure that rises to 22.8 million if workers who have given … Continue reading
Workforce Retirements and Skills Gaps
A joint survey released April 9, 2012, by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and AARP shows that U.S. employers are ramping up training programs aimed at closing expected skills gaps left when Baby Boomers retire. In addition, companies are enhancing employee benefits that they hope will help with recruiting and retaining older workers, … Continue reading
Immigrants | Job growth quicker than native-born Americans
Immigrants are experiencing a faster rate of job growth than native-born Americans in the economic recovery, data show. “It seems that the rate of unemployment for immigrants is slightly lower than for the native group,” said Jeanne Batalova, a policy analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute, which analyzed employment data for the region … Continue reading
Canada – A Widening Skills Gap
A fault line is splintering Canada’s labour market into those who can’t find work and those who can’t find workers. There’s no shortage of people looking for work. Some 1.4 million Canadians are unemployed, the jobless rate is still above pre-recession levels and youth unemployment is nearly 14 per cent. Despite this, employers across the … Continue reading
Prime Aged American Men | From over 80 percent at work to less than 3 in 4
The percentage of Prime Aged American Men Without Disability (PAAM) who are employed is one of the best labor market indicator.
India | Privacy invasion in job interviews
You may be very secretive otherwise, and not want to share your passwords for your email or social networking accounts, and rightly so. But what if it is your employer who is asking you for it? In what is branded as an unethical and a rather provocative measure, candidates looking for a job have been … Continue reading
For Dummies | Skills and Personal Qualities that Employers Want
Popular skills that employers want A roundup of several surveys suggests skills that employers often admire. The following list is representative but not comprehensive: Effective communication: Employers seek candidates who can listen to instructions and act on those instructions with minimal guidance. They want employees who speak, write, and listen effectively, organize their thoughts logically, … Continue reading
Don’t do that during an interview : the Seven Deadly Interview Sins
Here are seven deadly thing that you must not do during a job interview. Call them the Seven Deadly Interview Sins. Don’t Be Late To the Interview Don’t Show Up Unprepared Don’t Ask About Salary, Benefits, Perks Don’t Focus On Future Roles Instead Of The Job At Hand Don’t Turn The Weakness Question Into A … Continue reading
Who Is the Most Unemployed?
As the recent recession and recovery have demonstrated, the storms and lulls in the labor market are rarely felt evenly among its participants. A variety of factors, including education and industry concentration, mean that some groups will remain vulnerable to job losses. However, as the economic recovery gains speed, the employment prospects for all workers should continue to improve. Continue reading
Ontario | Job training excludes half of unemployed
Making employment supports available to all job-seekers would level the playing field and help the province’s neediest escape poverty, says Ontario’s social services review commission, headed by Frances Lankin and Munir Sheikh. The commission’s final report, to be released in June, will also include recommendations on how to improve the administration of the province’s two … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Will It Chill a Warming Job Market?
According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Jobs Outlook Survey for the second quarter of 2012, 58 percent of respondents have some level of confidence in the U.S. labor market and expect job growth for the April-to-June 2012 time frame. That’s up sharply from 34 percent of respondents in the fourth quarter of 2011. … Continue reading
Employer | Facebook Password | What to Do ?
Could you imagine a job interview during which your interviewer asks you for your Facebook password? Well folks, it’s happening and you should know what to do when it happens to you. Let’s go over some things you can do to protect yourself on a job interview. Don’t forget: You have the right to a … Continue reading
Emirates | More Europeans Coming for Jobs
With euro zone unemployment at an all-time high, big influx of job-seekers in UAE and region expected As the euro zone unemployment rate hits all-time high, the number of candidates looking to come to the UAE and the region has gone up. This may be good news for employers who are looking for a bigger … Continue reading
Malaysia | 60% of jobs by 2020 would need skilled workers
There will be 3.3mil job opportunities by the year 2020 and 60% of it requires highly skilled workers. Deputy Human Resource Minister Senator Datuk Maznah Mazlan said as such, SPM school leavers were encouraged to take up skills training to build up a highly-skilled workforce in facing the transformation era. “We have moved beyond the … Continue reading
U.S. Public Employees | More Layoffs
Public-sector employees tended to have more job security, which in some ways helps during weak economic climates, as their steady demand for goods and services spread through the economy. The recent trend, conversely, can make things worse. “If public-sector employment had grown since June 2009 by the average amount it grew in the three previous … Continue reading
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