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Skills Gap | Community colleges part of the solution
Community colleges have long viewed job training as central to their mission, but the role has taken on added significance since the economic recession. Even with nearly 13 million Americans unemployed, some companies can’t find qualified candidates. As many as 3.5 million jobs are unfilled right now, many of them in the fields of information … Continue reading
Canada – A Widening Skills Gap
A fault line is splintering Canada’s labour market into those who can’t find work and those who can’t find workers. There’s no shortage of people looking for work. Some 1.4 million Canadians are unemployed, the jobless rate is still above pre-recession levels and youth unemployment is nearly 14 per cent. Despite this, employers across the … Continue reading
Skills Gap | U.S. | Demand Rises for Skilled-Worker Visas
In a sign of the improving economy, the U.S. government said it saw a sharp rise in petitions for skilled-foreign-worker visas during the first week of this year’s application season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since April 2, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Will It Chill a Warming Job Market?
According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Jobs Outlook Survey for the second quarter of 2012, 58 percent of respondents have some level of confidence in the U.S. labor market and expect job growth for the April-to-June 2012 time frame. That’s up sharply from 34 percent of respondents in the fourth quarter of 2011. … Continue reading
Skills Gap | B.C. and Alberta | You can’t just put up a help-wanted ad or hang out a shingle
News that oilsands recruiters have been appearing at British Columbia’s junior hockey games isn’t going over well with the resource sector on this side of the provincial border who are chasing the same pool of skilled workers. B.C.’s mining, forestry and energy sectors are expecting to need as many as 10,000 people over the next … Continue reading
Australia | Skills Gap | Still Needing US Workers
There is a “healthy” number of apprentices in the construction industry of a “very high quality” in Australia, industry and training groups have assured, despite the fact the government announced plans to meet a skilled workers shortage earlier in the week. On Monday the Federal Skills Minister Chris Evans announced that the government will link … Continue reading
Europe | Tech Skills Gap a Myth?
It’s often claimed we are suffering an IT skills crisis of epic proportions: just recently the European Commission announced that by 2015 there will be an estimated shortfall of 700,000 IT professionals across Europe. And yet, academics have told TechRepublic there is little hard evidence of a shortage of IT workers, as neither pay levels nor … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Car Maker | More jobs than job seekers
After laying-off tens of thousands of employees in 2009, automakers and engineering firms are racing to fill new positions. Paul Eisenstein writes on The Detroit Bureau that at a recent career fair, job openings weren’t in short supply – job seekers were. Or more precisely, qualified job-seekers. Source: Read More @ More jobs than job seekers, … Continue reading
Philippines | Skills Gap | 2M jobs available this year
JOB vacancies up for grabs in the Philippines could hit 2 million this year in the five hottest fields: information technology, engineering, finance, sales and customer service, according to internet recruitment web-based firm Jobstreet.com. Jobstreet.com said in 2011, there were 2.7 million job vacancies, of which 40 percent were posted by the Malaysian-listed firm. Yoda … Continue reading
Wanted: Engineers and Web developers to staff D.C. upstarts – The Washington Post
Members of the Washington region’s start-up community gather each month and meeting co-organizer Peter Corbett almost always asks the same question: How many of you are looking to hire? Without fail, dozens, if not hundreds, of hands fly into the air. Like so many of their counterparts around the country, the region’s up-and-coming technology companies … Continue reading
Skills Gap | UK: Closing the gender skills gap – A reminder 3 years after the report
The report proposes ways to close the gender skills gap. According to the report, this would: increase the gross domestic product (GDP) by between £15 and £23 billion annually reduce the pay and opportunity gap between men and women increase the number of women training and working in science, engineering and technology (SET) alleviate the … Continue reading
How will Washington meet its growing need for STEM degrees? | HeraldNet.com – Opinion
A top Boeing official recently shared this sobering statistic: that 50 percent of Boeing’s engineers will be eligible to retire by 2015. Similar and equally frightening statistics pertain to the growing need for engineers in the energy industry, the transportation systems sector, and the civil infrastructure arena. Another projection shows that by 2018 the state … Continue reading
Ireland reveals plans to cut dole queues – CTV News
Dublin has unveiled far-reaching plans to cut dole queues by targeting those at risk of long-term unemployment, introducing penalties for people who do not take up training, and inviting the private sector to provide job placements. The plan copies several ideas already in place in the U.K., France and Australia, including immediate on-the-spot assessments for … Continue reading
Filling the void Panel describes need for more skilled workers in Georgia – The Marietta Daily Journal
A panel of workforce and education experts said Thursday that there needs to be a collaborative effort among students, parents, educational leaders and businesses to create more employment in Georgia and fill the growing void of unskilled workers. “We’re at a unique time in our economy,” said Glenn Rasco, vice president of community and economic … Continue reading
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