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Meet The New Boss: The Biggest New Job Challenges
04/02/2013 Comments Off on Meet The New Boss: The Biggest New Job Challenges
Workers starting 2013 with a new job may find learning the ropes to be their biggest challenge, a new Accountemps survey suggests. Forty-four percent of employees and 60% of managers interviewed said mastering new processes and procedures tops their list of concerns when starting a new job at a new company. One in five respondents (20%) from each group cited getting to know a […]
Continue reading …Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work
04/02/2013 Comments Off on Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work
Manpower Inc., a global employment services firm and strategic partner of the 2013 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, says it has spotted four important trends in the wide world of work. These four World of Work Mega Trends are transforming where, when, why and how individuals and companies work, according to Manpower. “In […]
Continue reading …Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap
Learn new job skills for free, show it off and get god job—all on the Internet? Here’s the story of an interesting way of training people, giving them usable in-demand job skills people AND then hiring them. This is really a demo for one company’s online education and training platform, but it does demonstrate how […]
Continue reading …Employment Report: Unemployment Unchanged, Workers Still Discouraged, No New Jobs
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Employment Report: Unemployment Unchanged, Workers Still Discouraged, No New Jobs
Employment in America is still stagnate. New employment data from Bureau of Labor Statistics show the job market remains sluggish and is smaller than five years ago. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 157,000 in January. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.9%, and has been at or near that level since September 2012, the U.S. […]
Continue reading …SHRM: February 2013 Hiring Expected to Jump in Manufacturing and Services
31/01/2013 Comments Off on SHRM: February 2013 Hiring Expected to Jump in Manufacturing and Services
The manufacturing and service sectors are expected to increase hiring in February 2013 compared to one year ago according to a report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The report shows that the service-sector hiring rate will rise for the seventh consecutive month compared with a year ago. The manufacturing-sector hiring rate will rise for […]
Continue reading …Global Jobs Crisis Far From Over, Warns ILO Chief
29/01/2013 Comments Off on Global Jobs Crisis Far From Over, Warns ILO Chief
ILO News– Stressing the urgent need to tackle the employment crisis, International Labour Organization Director-General, Guy Ryder, has warned that there can’t be any real growth without jobs. Asked about the jobs and growth conundrum – if there aren’t jobs, the economy can’t grow and if the economy can’t grow, it can’t create jobs – […]
Continue reading …Nearly Half Of College Grads Are Overqualified For Jobs
29/01/2013 Comments Off on Nearly Half Of College Grads Are Overqualified For Jobs
Have degree, driving cab: Nearly half of college grads are overqualified (via The Christian Science Monitor) College grads, Here’s a new data nugget in a high-stakes debate over the state of working America: A new study finds that about half of all workers with a college degree are overqualified for their current jobs. Some 48% […]
Continue reading …Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair Wages
24/01/2013 Comments Off on Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair WagesFake skills shortage: American business is finding it harder to hide behind the excuse that there simply aren’t enough workers with certain skills. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Adam Davidson (founder of the Planet Money podcast and NPR radio show) deconstructs the so-called “skills gap.” Turns out it’s a fake skills shortage. Reasons […]
Continue reading …Class of ’12: The Facebook Generation’s Social Media Job Search
23/01/2013 Comments Off on Class of ’12: The Facebook Generation’s Social Media Job Search
This probably comes as no surprise: New college graduates are embracing social media as a job search tool, according to a new study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). A generation that grew up with Facebook and instant messaging is now graduating from college and looking for work — using social […]
Continue reading …In U.S. Unemployed Far Outnumber Job Openings In Every Sector
23/01/2013 Comments Off on In U.S. Unemployed Far Outnumber Job Openings In Every Sector
Slack demand for American workers seems to be at the root of lack of new job openings in the United States and not a purported “skills gap,” a new economic analysis shows.. This low demand for demand for American workers is somewhat conspicuous in light of what appears to be an economic recovery. As many […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill