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China / The Skills Gap moves inland
Shift from coastal regions creates vacancies in central, western China China’s fast-developing economy is thirsty for talent, with skilled workers required by almost every industry. The nation’s human resources market experienced uneven development in 2012, akin to the pattern of its economic growth. Central, western and northeastern regions of the country were expected to notch … Continue reading
Trucking / There are jobs but drivers find it tough
Longtime drivers are retiring, and shipping demand is growing. Yet it’s not easy to find people willing to embrace the solitude and separation from family that comes with driving a semitrailer truck across the country for a living. Long-haul truckers spend weeks on the road. They sleep in their cabs or strange beds, shower in … Continue reading
Skills Gap / The Cloud / Almost 1.7 Million Jobs Went Unfilled in 2012
Demand for “cloud-ready” IT workers will grow by 26% annually through 2015, with as many as 7 million new cloud-related jobs to be available worldwide by that time, says a new IDC report sponsored by Microsoft. However, IT hiring managers report that there were 1.7 million open cloud-related positions that opened up over the past … Continue reading
Skills Gap / Incubator: a possible solution to skilled workers shortage
The skilled manufacturing industry needs to take a page from the local high-tech sector and open a business incubator to help train and retain talent in the region. That’s according to the president of the Conestoga Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, who spoke to a group of manufacturing industry experts and regional representatives last … Continue reading
Canada / New immigration stream for 3,000 skilled immigrants to fill ‘serious’ labour shortages
Canada will open its doors to 3,000 skilled tradespeople starting next year under a new immigration stream set to launch Jan. 2, 2013, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Monday. “The new skilled trades stream will help address serious labour shortages in some regions of the country, and support economic growth,” he said. “For too long, … 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
Skills Gap / SMEs are not confident enough right now to make big investments in training
“We’ve been able to find the types of people that we want as long we are willing to invest in them to bring them to the level of skill that we need,” says Tammy Krings who has something of a happy problem for her growing, Columbus, Ohio-based global travel business, TS24… Millions of small- and medium-sized employers, … Continue reading
The Grand Disconnect – Employers, education providers, and youth
“Around the world, governments and businesses face a conundrum: high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills” writes Mona Mourshed, Diana Farrell, and Dominic Barton in a McKinsey in Its report Education to Employment Designing a system that works. (Adapted choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) How can a country successfully move … Continue reading
Canada / CIBC report warns of negative impact of mismatch in job market
A CIBC report released Monday suggests Canada’s economic prosperity is at risk due to a labour market split that sees high-demand positions go unfilled while lower-skilled workers languish in unemployment. “We have people without jobs and jobs without people,” said author and deputy economist Benjamin Tal. The mismatch of companies unable to hire and people … Continue reading
University of Northampton pushes ‘employability skills’, only 4 % of its undergraduates unemployed
The University of Northampton is one of England’s younger universities: it only won the status in 2005. But it is also top of the league when it comes to getting its students into work. In 2010-11, six months after leaving the university, only 4 per cent of its former undergraduates were unemployed. Explaining its success, … Continue reading
India IT / Skill gap / Only 2.68% engineers meet the skill requirements
Only 2.68% engineers of the five lakh India produces annually meet the skill requirements of the IT products sector, according to a survey by employability assessment firm Aspiring Minds. The national employability survey on engineering graduates by the firm states that nearly 92% of engineering graduates lack computer programming and algorithms skill required for IT … Continue reading
Europe is still not sufficiently skilled writes the European Commission in Pathways towards full employment
“The economic crisis is fuelling a stream of bad news about jobs in Europe.” writes Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission in the foreword of New skills and jobs in Europe: Pathways towards full employment (Adapted choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) People around us are losing their jobs and … Continue reading
Community Colleges / Job Retraining Programs: Getting back into the workforce
Community colleges have long played a key role as an entryway to better career opportunities for adults in the workforce. But with the job market more competitive than ever and the unemployment rate stubbornly stuck near 8%, community colleges across the country are launching new initiatives that are more aggressive in helping unemployed Americans find … Continue reading
Britain / Brain Drain / Almost 5,200 university leavers sought employment elsewhere
Almost 5,200 university leavers sought employment in mainland Europe, the Far East and North America last year – up by 1,000 since the start of the economic crisis. Official figures show that graduates from the very best universities are significantly more likely to be tempted overseas, prompting fears that Britain’s most talented young people were … Continue reading
Graduate employability / Heading for a working life of 10,000 days
We’re sleepwalking into a crisis. There is much talk of the ‘lost generation’ of frustrated, angry, debt-ridden 20-somethings with diminishing career prospects. Yet employers continue to wring their hands as they pore over inadequate job applications or realise they’ve hired graduates with little grasp of what the world of work actually requires of them. So … Continue reading
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