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Ireland / Sky to create 500
RUPERT Murdoch’s Sky has announced plans to invest €1bn in the Irish economy in the next five years with cash earmarked for 500 new jobs by July as well as investment into its retail network. Most critically for Irish business, a new broadband service will be introduced, which is set to increase competition in the … Continue reading
Tulsa / Verizon to add 500 jobs
Verizon will soon add a financial services hub to its Cherokee Industrial Park facility, a move that will add 500 jobs to the area. The announcement was made Friday morning, and scheduled to include an appearance by Gov. Mary Fallin. When complete, Verizon’s financial services hub will handle accounts payable, accounting and other financial activities. … Continue reading
Hiring a Game Changer who thinks outside the box
You have staffed your team with all the right people: they graduated from top universities, worked at leading companies, stayed at each company the requisite length of time, and exuded intelligence in the interview process. Yet you see other companies with far less surface talent achieving incredible results and outstripping you. Why is this? The … Continue reading
Hiring / Ford joins GM
Ford Motor Co., has become the latest automaker to go on a hiring binge in the U.S.. Ford said it plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the U.S. this year – the largest increase in new salaried workers in more than a decade. The news comes on the heels of General Motor’s announcement Thursday … Continue reading
Solihull, UK / Jaguar Land Rover to create 800 jobs
Britain’s car-making industry, stung by the loss of 800 jobs in Swindon last week, is to receive a boost from Jaguar Land Rover, which is to create jobs in Solihull. The announcement of the decision to put £370m of investment and 800 additional roles into the West Midlands plant was timed to coincide with the … Continue reading
Italy / McDonald’s / 100 new stores, 3,000 new jobs
Fastfood giant McDonald’s believes recession-hit Italy will be one of its higher-growth areas in the coming decade and is opening more than 100 new restaurants to convert pizza-lovers to its burgers. In a country where foreign investment has fallen by almost 30 percent since 2007, McDonald’s Italian arm plans to spend 350 million euros ($457 … Continue reading
10 startup hiring challenges
What is one common issue that you have faced with startup hires and how have you rectified the situation? Ten entrepreneurs weigh in: 1. Can’t adapt to startup style 2. How much are you really worth? 3. Alignment adjustment necessary 4. Can you think for yourself? 5. Uncommitted candidates 6. Adopting the startup structure 7. … Continue reading
Social Media and Jobs
There’s not a lot of definitive data on the effectiveness of social networks, but what’s there suggests that social media hasn’t been quite the silver bullet solution that many were expecting. One survey found that 71% of respondents had not made a single hire from Twitter and 64% had not made any hires from Facebook. … Continue reading
Skills Gap a myth, employers are simply using the wrong hiring criteria
At this writing, the unemployment rate in the United States is 7.9%, yet, according to Manpower, one out of every two U.S. employers is struggling to fill mission-critical jobs. How can that be? In my view, based on my company’s work with more than 28,000 businesses around the world and our assessment of over 3.5 … Continue reading
India / Microsoft, Google hiring from new IIT campuses, pushing up wages by 15-20%
It’s just their second year on the placement scene but the new Indian Institutes of Technology at Ropar, Patna, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Gandhinagar, among others, are already nipping at the heels of their much-older and more established counterparts. Big-ticket recruiters like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have descended on these campuses and average salaries have shot … Continue reading
North Dakota / More jobs than workers
Home improvement retailer Menard Inc. says it will hire workers from its home base in Wisconsin and fly them to North Dakota to staff a store in Minot, which is near the state’s booming oil patch and has more jobs than takers. The company said in a statement that it plans to hire 50 workers … Continue reading
Hiring in US / GSI Commerce, UPS and Amazon struggling to fill jobs to ship holiday orders.
Hundreds of holiday jobs are there for the taking around here — and employers are having trouble finding people to fill them. Major distribution companies like GSI Commerce and UPS are struggling to fill jobs to ship holiday orders. UPS still had 200 openings paying $8.50 per hour on four shifts this week, three months … Continue reading
Canada / Royal Bank to hire at least 700 in Québec
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) plans to hire at least 700 new employees in its various activities in Quebec next year. -*- Forte de bons résultats malgré la morosité économique, la Banque Royale entend poursuivre ses investissements en personnel et en succursales au Québec afin, dit-elle, d’y renforcer ses parts de marché et d’améliorer … Continue reading
Job Search / Help (and a friend) wanted
Chances are, you’ll never see a job listing like this: Help (and friend) wanted — Must share common interests and be fun to spend time with. But a research paper released Thursday finds that when it comes to choosing job candidates, employers place a heavy emphasis on finding people who are similar to them, and whose company they … Continue reading
Virginia and Kentucky / Southern Coal announces massive miner call backs
Southern Coal Corp. announces massive call backs and hiring of miners in Southwest Virginia, Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. The company has worked over the last month with several customers to secure coal orders to be able to save jobs as well as reopen mines closed earlier this year. Southern Coal has entered into … Continue reading
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