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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
Obama Renews Push For Higher Education, Hints at Santorum ‘Snob’ Comment – ABC News
“No issue will have a bigger impact on the future performance of our economy than education,” the president said in remarks before the National Governors Association at the White House. The president insisted that higher education is the key to preparing Americans for the jobs of the 21st century. “We can’t allow higher education to … Continue reading
Analysis: U.S. factory jobs rebound seen destined to fizzle – chicagotribune.com
U.S. manufacturers are hiring at the fastest pace in more than a decade to keep up with new orders but sweeping technological advances could cost thousands of factory workers their jobs in years to come. At a new factory in upstate New York, which is due to churn out its first computer chips this year, … Continue reading
Wisconsin leads Midwest in layoffs, unemployment
Despite signs of recovery over the last year, Wisconsin is one of the leading states in layoffs and unemployment claims, according to the most recent federal statistics. Only five other states — California, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida — had more layoffs than Wisconsin during January of this year, according to the a … Continue reading
Rosebud Mining Begins Layoffs
As many as 30 workers will be receiving unemployment checks following what some workers call the “beginning” of further cuts in the Rosebud Mining organization. While there was no one available at Rosebud to confirm reports, it appears that over 20 positions were eliminated in Rosebud’s Kittanning operation on Route 422 and at least ten … Continue reading
Joblessness Leads to More Hungry and Homeless Families in U.S. Cities – U.S. Conference of Mayors
In the midst of a struggling economy and continuing high levels of unemployment, U.S. cities are feeling the pressure from increased numbers of hungry and homeless families according to a U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) report on the status of Hunger and Homelessness in 29 cities in America. Continue reading
100,000 jobless facing unemployment benefit changes 100,000 jobless facing unemployment benefit changes
Thousands of Ohioans could see their extended unemployment benefits cut short as early as this spring as the federal government pares back the duration of benefits from an unprecedented 99 weeks. Congress last week reauthorized extended benefits through the end of the year for millions of unemployed Americans, including about 100,000 in Ohio. The federally … 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
Job Front: Matching military vets to employers is group’s goal
In Sacramento, a number of veterans groups and state and local employment agencies work to make local employers aware of job-ready veterans. Here are a few: • Sacramento Area Human Resource Association (www.sahra.org). • Sacramento Veterans Resource Center (www.vietvets.org/svrc.htm). • Employment Development Department (www.edd.ca.gov). • California Department of Veterans Affairs (www.cdva.ca.gov). • Sacramento Employment and … Continue reading
Mismatch shocks and the natural rate of unemployment
The authors estimate a DSGE model that features nominal rigidities and search frictions in the labor market. They evaluate the importance of mismatch shocks in accounting for the recent behavior of the Beveridge curve. Their fndings suggest that the rise in the unemployment rate during the Great Recession is mainly due to cyclical factors rather than to an increase in … Continue reading
Skills Gap | US : Toward a well-prepared workforce
High and lasting unemployment is the fate of several OECD countries. But at the same time, employers widely report difficulty finding qualified and skilled workers. That used to be called “structural unemployment”. More and more analysts call it the Skills Gap. It has been observed for a long time in countries, or part of them, … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Mismatch in the Labor Market: The Supply of and Demand for “Middle-Skill” Workers in New England
Alicia Sasser Modestino reports in the Journal of the NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION a very common concern that concerned that the region’s slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will lead to a shortage of skilled labor—particularly when the baby boom generation retires. “Prior to the Great … Continue reading
Skills Gap | Massachusetts : no current worker gap but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations
There is no worker gap in Massachusetts currently: there are a large number of people available to work (those unemployed, underemployed or in the labor force reserve), but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations a report says. Full Report @ :
Labour Market Changes | UK : a summary of the main trends
The National Guidance Research Forum (NGRF) website, launched in 2004 for careers guidance practitioners and researchers as a collaborative project between the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER), University of Warwick, the International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby and KnowNet, a specialist software company, has posted a summary of the main trends for … Continue reading
Young, Underemployed and Optimistic – Pew Research Center
A plurality of the American public believe that young adults are having the toughest time of any age group in today’s economy — and a lopsided majority says it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for … Continue reading
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