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iPhone 6 – 100,000 new jobs in China
Chinese manufacturing powerhouse Foxconn is preparing to assemble stuff like its never assembled stuff before, with reports from China suggesting the companys vast network of facilities may be employing an extra 100,000 workers to handle the logistics of making millions of iPhone 6s over the coming months. via iPhone 6 Production Explosion Creates 100,000 New … Continue reading
LinkedIn on iPhone in US – Job Search App Debuts
LinkedIn launched a job search app Thursday that is available to iOS users in the United States. The app lets you search for and filter jobs, save jobs that interest you, learn more about a company, and apply for a position using the information in your LinkedIn profile. “More than 40 percent of you are currently … Continue reading
Job Search / A new free iPhone app called TheLadders
Job Search – A new free iPhone app called TheLadders takes a different approach and sends a list of job opportunities to users based on their employment profile and career goals Continue reading
Foxconn / Large-scale hiring for iPhone 5S
A recruitment firm responsible for Foxconn’s plant in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, has started “large-scale” hires for a ramp up to build what one source called the “iPhone 6.” Continue reading
US / The App Economy: from 0 to roughly 466,000 jobs in less than 5 years
“How can the U.S. dig itself out of the current job drought?” asks Michael Mandel in WHERE THE JOBS ARE: The APP Economy (Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) Government policy can temporarily boost employment. The ultimate answer, though, is innovation: The creation of new goods and services that spur the growth of new industries … Continue reading
US / A total of 598,500 jobs created or supported by Apple (Apple’s estimates)
Based on a study by Analysis Group in February 2012, Apple has directly or indirectly created 307,250 U.S. jobs.* These jobs — spread across all 50 states — include thousands of jobs in numerous industries, from the people who create components for our products to the people who build the planes and trucks that carry … Continue reading
Apple says it is supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs | Reactions
Apple is Supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs according to Apple itself. You can read the argument @ Apple. “Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who … Continue reading
Apple | Hiring automotive professionals in China for the ‘iCar’
Apple’s Hiring Automotive Engineers, Is An ‘iCar’ Infotainment System Coming? Apple is once again proving they’re still the company Steve Jobs built. After years of saying “meh” to working with automakers on tighter integration of Apple products into automotive infotainment systems, there’s evidence Apple is now hiring people to build a system for them that’ll … Continue reading
iTWire – Big increase in Web jobs: report
The chief executive of Australian-based Internet start-up, global outsourcing marketplace, Freelancer.com, Matt Barrie, said today the latest findings of the company’s online Fast 50 survey of the jobs market, revealed that in there was a “tremendous rise across the key web technology areas”, with HTML up 193% – to a “whopping 72,571 new jobs.” Barrie … Continue reading
Migrants elbow for Foxconn jobs despite labor probe – Business LIVE
Apple’s top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm’s reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices. On a smoggy day in a gritty industrial suburb of Shenzhen, thousands of job seekers, … Continue reading
Just How Important Is Manufacturing? – Willy C. Shih – HBS Faculty – Harvard Business Review
Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country’s economic future. … Continue reading
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