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New Careers And New Lives Begin With Job Corps
New Careers And New Lives Begin With Job Corps Meet Alexis Hawkins. Thirteen years after being expelled from high school, she graduated from Howard Law School and today has two college degrees, a career she’s passionate about and a vision for her future. Currently studying to take the bar exam, Alexis aspires to “become a public […]
Skills Undervalued At Work? New Research Shows Why
12/09/2016 Comments Off on Skills Undervalued At Work? New Research Shows Why
“Investment in skills and education is a necessary condition for managing technological disruption, it is not enough. What also matters is the use of skills – putting human talent to good use, most importantly at the workplace.” A book by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab on the fourth industrial revolution has raised the question […]
Continue reading …U.S. Small Businesses Struggle To Find Qualified Employees, Rely On Referals
15/02/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Small Businesses Struggle To Find Qualified Employees, Rely On Referals
Small business owners continue to complain of being unable to find enough qualified employees to fill certain jobs. In spite of the slow economy and high unemployment, 53% of U.S. small-business owners in January reported finding it very (23%) or somewhat difficult (30%) to find the qualified employees they need, according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup […]
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Infographic: What Employers Want Despite high unemployment, some U.S. employers can’t find enough workers with the right qualifications to fill their jobs. While the U.S. economy is growing slowly, there are industries and areas of the country — such as those at the center of the oil and gas boom — that are expanding rapidly. […]
Continue reading …Women, Science And Technology – The Attitude Gap
12/02/2013 Comments Off on Women, Science And Technology – The Attitude Gap
ILO News- Science and technology are advancing at a rapid pace, offering new opportunities in the workplace. Women, however, are in danger of being left behind. And that is a question of attitudes, not aptitudes. “Women tend to be overrepresented in the humanities and social sciences, and underrepresented in science and technology,” says Claude Akpokavie, […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
06/02/2013 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
ManpowerGroup, a World Economic Forum (WEF) strategic partner, is promoting coordinated action in four key to help solve a global skills shortage chronic levels of youth unemployment worldwide. Youth unemployment and skills training were high on the agenda at the recednt WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Global staffing firm ManpowerGroup is a $22 billion […]
Continue reading …Invest In Youth Employment Or Lose A Generation
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Invest In Youth Employment Or Lose A Generation
ILO News— The world risks losing a generation if it fails to urgently address the youth employment crisis, the ILO said in a Call for Action on the youth employment crisis adopted at its May 30-June 14 2012 International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva. “Unless immediate and vigorous action is taken, the global community confronts the grim […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment: ILO Chief Says Less Austerity, More Investment Needed
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment: ILO Chief Says Less Austerity, More Investment Needed
ILO News– International Labour Organization (ILO) chief Guy Ryder has called for less austerity and more investments to promote a jobs recovery at a time when the youth unemployment crisis threatens to scar “the very fabric of our societies.” Ryder stressed that measures promoting youth employment should be shielded from austerity policies and that spending […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment Worldwide: Millions Not Working, Not Studying
ILO News— Youth unemployment around the world has driven millions of young people to essentially give up looking for a job, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new report. The youth unemployment rate (at 12.6% in 2011) would be a full percentage point higher if it included the number of young people who […]
Continue reading …Youth Unemployment Up 4 Million Worldwide Since 2007
06/02/2013 Comments Off on Youth Unemployment Up 4 Million Worldwide Since 2007
ILO News– The global youth unemployment rate for 2012 remains stuck at crisis peak levels and is not expected to come down until at least 2016, says the International Labor Organization (ILO) in its Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012 report (www.ilo.org/getyouth). Projections show 12.7% of the global youth labor force will be unemployed this year, unchanged […]
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