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Nottingham | Center Parcs village and 1,500 new jobs
NOTTS-based holiday village company Center Parcs is set to boost its profits and create 1,500 jobs when it opens its fifth site in Spring 2014. Work has finally started on building the new Center Parcs Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire, more than seven years after the site was first identified… via Go-ahead for Center Parcs village … Continue reading
RIM still hiring | An invitation-only job fair
Less than eight months after Research In Motion Ltd. cut 2,000 jobs, the BlackBerry maker is recruiting to fill nearly 600 positions. Hundreds of hopefuls attended an employment fair Thursday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to apply for jobs the company says range from software development to hardware testing to technical support. It said … Continue reading
Alberta Coalition for Action on Labour Shortages | Calling on governments
Alberta business groups demand action on labour shortage – Calgary – CBC News A coalition of Alberta business groups is calling on the federal and provincial governments to work with industry to address labour shortages in western Canada. “Every sector of the economy will be hit hard by a shortage of workers,” said coalition spokesperson … Continue reading
U.S. | Disabled | Federal contractors | Target on the Drawing Table
Employers and business groups are trying to stop an Obama administration effort that calls for federal contractors to hire a minimum number of disabled workers and could penalize those who don’t by revoking their contracts. The proposal could reshape hiring at roughly 200,000 companies that generate $700 billion a year in contracts with the federal … Continue reading
Toyota hiring to build transmissions
Toyota plans to invest $45 million in its plant at Buffalo and add up to 80 employees to increase production of automatic transmissions, said Mike Lutz, general manager of Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia. “We are increasing our capacity again in two phases,” Lutz said. “We’ll increase in November 5,000 additional six speed automatic transmissions … Continue reading
Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You | More Than 15% of Workers Get Hired Through Social Networks
Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You – George Anders – Harvard Business Review How does a customer-service expert in Seattle catch the attention of a hot San Francisco startup in San Francisco, 700 miles away? The answer these days is likely to involve networking and brand-building on social media’s “fun” sites — even the … Continue reading
Strong Canadian dollar has pushed goods sector wages making Canada a non-costeffective location says a CIBC Report
“Remember 62 cents? Canada’s currency posted its all-time weakest monthly close against its American cousin exactly a decade ago, making a dramatic U-turn thereafter. Despite leveling off in recent years, the US¢/C$ exchange rate remains 60% stronger than it was a decade ago and is also more than 20% firmer than a trade-weighted basket of other major currencies” write Avery Shenfeld and … Continue reading
UK | Unpaid work experience | Boots leaves scheme for long-term unemployed
Boots says it is withdrawing from the government’s scheme to help the long-term unemployed find work. It comes on the same day that ministers had to drop sanctions from a separate scheme that offers work experience to younger jobseekers. Boots said that it would no longer be offering any new placements on the work programme, … Continue reading
Youth Tough labor market | Economic Policy Institute
As we approach graduation season, it’s important to note the uphill battle young job seekers continue to face in today’s labor market. The unemployment rate for workers under the age of 25 has improved to 16.0 percent since its peak of 19.6 percent in the spring of 2010, but, excluding the Great Recession and its … Continue reading
South Africa tries to solve its employment dilemma | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com
South Africa’s unemployment rate hovers around 25 per cent, and the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 led the country to lose around 1.2m jobs. In the 25-34 age group 50 per cent of South Africans do not work, and it is thought that 50 per cent of young black South Africans will never have the chance to do … Continue reading
Study: Ohio shale boom to create more than 65,000 jobs by 2014 | The Columbus Dispatch
The burgeoning energy boom in eastern Ohio will create or support 65,680 jobs by 2014 while boosting the state’s economy, according to a study released this morning. The study by the Ohio Shale Coalition is at least the third to look at the potential development of the oil and natural gas Utica shale. Other recent … Continue reading
China Hits Turning Point; Jobs Coming Back to the U.S.
As reported in The New American here, the difference in wages between Chinese and American workers is narrowing rapidly. Part of the reason is that China has passed the Lewis Turning Point. First noted by Bloomberg, that turning point hit the Chinese labor markets in the weeks following China’s Lunar New Year holiday in February, … Continue reading
Snyder says losing A-10s from Selfridge could cut 600 jobs in state | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said the state could lose more than 600 full- and part-time military jobs if the Air Force moves A-10 fighter planes from Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Macomb County. “I’m not sure we are getting treated fairly by the Air Force,” Snyder said Monday after he attended the National Governors … Continue reading
SIX to cut 150 jobs as franc hits profits – FT.com
Switzerland’s SIX Group, is to cut 150 jobs after it warned that operating profits had been hit in recent months by tough markets and the strength of the Swiss franc. The operator of the Swiss stock exchange further cautioned that market uncertainty and cost-conscious customers were damping sales expectations for 2012 for all business areas. … Continue reading
Lowe’s, Home Depot Hiring Thousands for Spring Season – Career Advice for Students & Grads on FINS.com
Two big home improvement chains are furiously hiring now to meet demand during spring, their busiest season. The jobs are temporary, but the companies say that the positions are often a foot in the door toward a full-time job for those who see retailing as a potential profession. “Seasonal employment is often a path to … Continue reading
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