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Canada / Older workers flood into job market
Older workers have flooded into the job market since the recovery that began in the summer of 2009, TD Economics said Thursday, eclipsing other age groups in terms of gains made in the labour market. The report said Canadians aged 60 years and over account for about one-third of all net job gains, “a striking … 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
Australians Working Longer, Retiring With More Money
The number of older workers with jobs in Australia has almost doubled in a decade, transforming workplaces and adding almost a million employees to meet the nation’s skills shortages. New data from the Bureau of Statistics shows that, on average, 1.93 million workers aged 55 and over were employed in 2011, almost double the 1.01 … Continue reading
The BLS Thinks These Jobs Will Grow a Lot. I Think They’re Wrong.
In a post at The Atlantic, Jordan Weissmann draws a couple interesting graphs using data from the BLS’s recently-released projections of job growth to 2020. Weissmann concentrates on those jobs that require only a high-school diploma or less, and points out the surprising stat that 63% of all US jobs created (12.8 million total) will be … Continue reading
Is America Overworked?
It’s midnight on a Wednesday and I’m sitting at my keyboard after a 10-hour day trying to finish an article on whether Americans work too much. This is a prank, right? Sadly, it’s more like a typical day for most freelance writers, and we’re becoming part of the norm. With an increasingly competitive job market, … Continue reading
Top 10 skills and competencies: teamwork : graduate jobs, careers, recruitment TARGETjobs
The message from employers is clear: academic qualifications alone are not enough to get you a graduate job. They want to see evidence of your employability skills – the competencies that will enable you to contribute well in the workplace. But what are these key skills, and how do you show you have them? To … Continue reading
UK | CIPD calls for end to row over ‘unpaid’ work experience | 24 February 2012 | Stock Market Wire
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is warning that recent headlines, which associate voluntary unpaid work experience with slave labour, are in danger of discouraging employers from offering placements and denying young people a route into permanent employment. Good quality work experience provides an invaluable way for young people to build key skills … Continue reading
Help Wanted: Skilled Manufacturing Workers
The U.S. economy is gathering momentum and the key driver is manufacturing. Not only is our industrial sector growing, but after more than a decade of losses in manufacturing jobs, we are actually going in the other direction. We added 50,000 manufacturing jobs in January on top of 32,000 the month before. This is a … Continue reading
Republican House Bill Would Strip US Fed’s Jobs Mandate – Business News – CNBC
Seeking to make good on past threats in Congress to rein in the Federal Reserve’s powers, a prominent Republican lawmaker said on Thursday he will introduce legislation to focus the U.S. central bank on a single mandate to fight inflation and protect the dollar’s value. Representative Kevin Brady, vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, … Continue reading
Upload Profile Pictures Add Personal Skills Get Job Interview
Keyword searching is old fashioned. A résumé usually does not fully reflect who you are. Often, what employers read isn’t what they get. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a well-designed profile + video worth? To land a great job, or to recruit the best talent, you need to get … Continue reading
Job Search | Interview Street Is Holding CodeSprints Every Week | TechCrunch
Y Combinator-backed Interview Street is accelerating the pace of its CodeSprints, where programmers prove their worth to potential employers by completing coding problems in a limited period of time. The startup held its second big CodeSprint last month. The event seems like a success — 5,221 people participated, 665 of them actually applied to companies, … Continue reading
How To Identify Innovative New Hires | Inc.com
Many of the resumes that cross my desk are white pieces of paper that list education, experiences, and skills. Since they’re typically from traditionally-minded people who prefer not to call attention to themselves, I don’t expect anything else. Some people who are more expressive also include links to websites, where they post videos or slide … Continue reading
UK | NEETs | Almost 1m young people not in education, employment or training
Almost 1 million young people are not in school, work or training, according to official figures which underline the extent to which the economic slowdown is hurting school-leavers. One in six 16- to 24-year-olds was a “neet” (not in education, employment or training) in the last three months of 2011, according to statistics published by … Continue reading
Our prolonged employment gap – Rex Nutting – MarketWatch
Everyone knows that the Great Recession has inflicted tremendous damage to the lives and fortunes of millions of Americans. But what you may not know is that most of the suffering is still to come. We’re not even halfway done with this mess. The economy has been growing for 31 months now, and employment has … Continue reading
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
“The value of annual U.S. goods imports from China has increased by a staggering 1,156% from 1991 to 2007.” write David H. Autor, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson in The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States on mit.edu. The rapid increase in U.S. exposure to trade with China and other developing economies suggests … Continue reading
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