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Australia – Carbon tax won’t hurt jobs according to OECD’s Report
Australia’s carbon tax is expected to have at most a moderate effect on employment within the country, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), predicts. According to the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2012, “environmental taxes” were predicted to have a “modest overall effect on employment and little impact on the demand for skills”. “Fossil-fuel industries … Continue reading
America’s Silent Crisis – Single Working Mother
Single mothers are raising more of America’s children than ever before. And for many of them, the economic precipice is creeping closer and closer. For decades the number of single-parent families has climbed higher, with the overwhelming majority of these households led by women. In 1960, just 5 million children under 18 lived with only … Continue reading
Vocational and Technical Education Meet Parent Resistance
Career and technical education has come a long way since the days when students could be steered from academics into hairstyling, auto repairs or carpentry. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to sell the concept of having all students take courses in CTE, as it is known. Take what happened this March in La Jolla, … Continue reading
Technology sector layoffs surge as Hewlett-Packard cuts job cut
Planned layoffs that will impact 30,000 workers at computer giant Hewlett-Packard helped push job cuts announced by technology-sector firms to their highest level in three years, according to a report on tech-sector downsizing released Monday by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Technology firms, including those in computer, electronics, and telecommunications, combined to … Continue reading
Re-entering the workforce after taking time off to stay at home with kids can be an intimating process
Many females worry about their skills still being relevant and if they will still fit in and adapt to a workplace environment all while juggling their new added responsibilities at home. The good news is that a recent Korn/Ferry executive survey shows almost 50% of women say having children did not impact their career progression, … Continue reading
Best Buy – Geek Squad workers – Hiring on Layoffs ?
On the heels of saying it would lay off 600 Geek Squad workers, Best Buy Co. Inc. says it will hire 500 skilled employees for the unit. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) spokesman Bruce Hight said Monday that the hiring should be complete by the end of the year. “They’re restructuring, and some particular types … Continue reading
Five Europe 2012 Grads Testimony
Athina Prassa in Athens mastered English in four years studying at a private university. It’s a skill that may not help her much as she hunts for work while hard-right thugs roam her blighted neighborhood. Lucy Nicholls in London graduated from fashion school brimming with optimism. It took just a week for real life to … Continue reading
Last Shuttle – Struggling a year after layoffs
A year after NASA ended the three-decade-long U.S. space shuttle program, thousands of formerly well-paid engineers and other workers around the Kennedy Space Center are still struggling to find jobs to replace the careers that flourished when shuttles blasted off from the Florida “Space Coast.” Some have headed to South Carolina to build airplanes in … Continue reading
U.S. Job Recovery – Faster for Men than Women
Even as women have moved up the economic ladder and outpaced men in earnings growth over the last decade, they are lagging behind in a crucial area — getting new jobs. Since the recession ended in June 2009, men have landed 80% of the 2.6 million net jobs created, including 61% in the last year. … Continue reading
BC Mining – Campbell River – 200 to 300 jobs in 3 years ?
Geoscience info could make CR mining hub Campbell River could become a service centre for increased mining exploration activity on the North Island following a $930,000 funding announcement under the BC Jobs Plan. “This initiative, by itself, could be a major driver for your economy,” said Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell at the … Continue reading
Neither Obama nor Romney Will Jump Start Jobs Growth
Last week’s weak unemployment report was bad news. But here’s an even more sobering piece of news. Even with jobs playing a central role in the campaign, neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney is going to turn things around anytime soon. Here’s the problem, in a nutshell: Obama has a plan for job creation but … Continue reading
GM beginning to reverse IT services outsourcing
GM now outsources about 90 percent of its IT services and provides 10 percent of that work in-house. Within the next three to five years, GM hopes to reverse those percentages in part by hiring “thousands” of new software developers, database experts and others globally, GM spokeswoman Juli Huston-Rough said. The IT overhaul is spearheaded … Continue reading
Skills Gap – There won’t be enough A & P (airframe and propulsion) licensed mechanics for an Airbus Assembly plant when in Mobile
That’s the word from companies that specialize in recruiting and hiring skilled workers for several industries, including the marine and airbus 380 in Vancouver (Photo credit: Cyprien) aviation industries. Bud Collins owns Eagle Marine Services in Irvington. He’s been placing skilled workers in marine jobs for 17 years, including ship building sites like Newport News, … Continue reading
Massachusetts – New Estimates – Jobs grew faster in 2011
A close examination of unemployment insurance data shows that Massachusetts has been gaining jobs faster than people thought, according to a new report issued Thursday by MassBenchmarks and the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Coastline (NASA, International Space Station, 06/27/11) (Photo credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center) But even the new numbers … Continue reading
India – Infosys sticks to its target of hiring: 35,000 jobs
Software services major Infosys on Thursday said it will stick to its target of hiring 35,000 people this fiscal but is not looking at wage hikes for now. The hiring plan, which includes 13,000 jobs for its BPO operations, will be adhered to despite an uncertain global economic growth environment and the wage-hike freeze. “We … Continue reading
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