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US / Fed Has Failed to Lower Unemployment
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke continues to believe that more aggregate demand is all that is needed to put back to work the unemployed, but about 1.65 million more people would have jobs if the unemployment rate dropped to the Fed’s target Continue reading
Datacenter and IT job / Will cloud adoption bring about an apocalypse?
Will cloud adoption bring about an apocalypse? Jason Perlow and David Gewirtz look at the question Continue reading
G20 / Put job creation at the heart of the global recovery writes US Treasury secretary
When the finance and labour ministers of the Group of 20 leading nations gather in Moscow, getting people back to work must be top of the agenda writes U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew Continue reading
PSA-Peugeot-Citroen Offshoring / A 3rd China plant
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen opens a third assembly plant in China today, expanding in the world’s largest vehicle market even as a slump in European demand prompts it to cut jobs at home Continue reading
India / Food Corporation hiring 7,000
Food Corporation of India (FCI) is on a hiring spree as it plans to recruit 7,000 in order to gear up for implementation of proposed Food Security Act, after hiring about 3,800 employees. “This is a massive recruitment drive undertaken by the FCI,” state-run FCI Executive Director (Personnel) D V Devinder Kumar Bhalla today said … Continue reading
Over-educated / In 1970, only one in 100 taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the US had a college degree, today 15
In 1970, only one in 100 taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the US had a college degree, according to an analysis of labour statistics by Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart and Jonathan Robe. Today, 15 out of 100 do. Continue reading
From Spain to Netherlands for nurses / 800 applicants
Nurse recruiting firm Roca-BHR drew more than 800 applicants in Spain last year when it offered guaranteed jobs in the Netherlands caring for the elderly to those who were willing to take an intensive course in Dutch Continue reading
Nestle / Help for 20,000 young European to find jobs
Nestle, the world’s biggest food company and a major employer in Europe, plans to recruit 20,000 young people as the continent grapples with a youth unemployment crisis that is sapping consumer confidence Continue reading
US / Employment for scheduled passenger carriers in april was 9,495 fewer than a year ago
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 380,748 workers in April 2013, 2.4 percent fewer than in April 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. April was the eighth consecutive month that full-time equivalent (FTE) employment for U.S. scheduled passenger carriers was below that of the same month of the previous year Continue reading
Foxconn hiring 3,000 for Firefox OS
Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group plans to hire as many as 3,000 workers to support development of devices running Mozilla’s fledgling Firefox OS Continue reading
Myanmar / Coca-Cola plant to create 22,000 jobs
For the first time in more than 60 years, Coca-Cola is being bottled in Myanmar. Muhtar Kent, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, attended the ceremonial inauguration of a bottling plant in Crystal Springs, Hmawbi Township. The facility is the first to locally bottle Coca-Cola since the company re-entered Myanmar last year, says a … Continue reading
UK / Banks employment to 9yr low
Britain’s four biggest banks will have cut a quarter of their staff worldwide by the end of this year from peak staffing levels of 2008. Thousands of jobs are targeted as British banks centered in LIBOR rigging and insurance mis-selling scandals continue to cut costs. Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds and Barclays will employ … Continue reading
Ford / More Jobs And Vacations Skipped
Pent-up demand for new vehicles, along with a rebounding economy and a surging stock market, is bringing car buyers out in droves. On Wednesday, Ford Motor said it will add an additional 200,000 units of annual capacity this year — almost the equivalent of opening another assembly plant in North America. The extra capacity at … Continue reading
Monster / Demand for Engineering Jobs Grows in 2013
We recently surveyed employers to gauge their recruitment plans for engineering job opportunities, and learned that a majority of employers (73%) are likely to hire engineering talent over the next 60 days, driven primarily by staff increases (60%) and company expansion (54%). Our survey found that there is both a need for a variety of … Continue reading
Autism / SAP in a recruitment drive
German software company SAP says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they have a unique talent for information technology. The firm said that by 2020, 1% of its global workforce of 65,000 employees would be people with autism. Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause problems with social interaction and … Continue reading
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