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Intern Hiring Falls 3.4% For 2014
While employers plan to hire 1.3% more bachelor’s degree-level interns in 2014 than they did a year ago, overall intern hiring will fall 3.4% in 2014 from last year, according to results of a new survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). NACE’s 2014 Internship & Co-op Survey found that nearly 97% of responding […]
Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge
18/05/2013 Comments Off on Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge
There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many of them, finding a stable job represents a major challenge. In Li’s case, a little help has made a big difference. Li Chao ILO News– Li Chao is making marmite at the Wan Feng restaurant in Beijing’s Fengtai district. […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage
10/05/2013 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage
Staffing firm ManpowerGroup is urging manufacturers to commit to private-public sector task forces for developing market-specific solutions to address the skills shortage within the U.S. manufacturing industry. “Innovative manufacturing and prototyping enterprises are growing in the U.S., but hiring in manufacturing is not as robust as we’d like to see,” said Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup president. “Contemporary […]
Continue reading …VIDEO: 7 Skills Students Need To Succeed In The Workplace Of Future
07/05/2013 Comments Off on VIDEO: 7 Skills Students Need To Succeed In The Workplace Of Future
Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group, has identified what he calls a “global achievement gap,” which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have workplace skills of the future: * Critical thinking and problem-solving * Collaboration across networks and leading by influence * Agility and adaptability * […]
Continue reading …Male Nurses More Common, Numbers Triple Since 1970
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Male Nurses More Common, Numbers Triple Since 1970
Male nurses aren’t as rare as they used to be. More men are becoming RNs. While the nursing profession remains overwhelmingly female, number of male nurses has tripled during the past 40 years, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau study. In 2011 330,000 men were employed as nurses in the United States, about 9.6% […]
Continue reading …From Kenya Slum Dweller To Company Director Creating Jobs
26/02/2013 Comments Off on From Kenya Slum Dweller To Company Director Creating Jobs
Lorna Rutto, Director, Eco-Post Recycling, Kenya ILO photo ILO News– Lorna Rutto was born in one of the most stunning parts of Kenya – the Rift Valley region of Nakuru, home to wildlife, pink flamingos and dormant volcanoes. But amidst this natural beauty are the sprawling slums of Kaptembwa where she grew up, on the […]
Continue reading …Pro Bono: Accenture Trains 320,000 Worldwide In New Job Skills
22/02/2013 Comments Off on Pro Bono: Accenture Trains 320,000 Worldwide In New Job Skills
Management consulting firm Accenture says it has exceeded its Skills to Succeed program goal of by 2015 training 250,000 people worldwide in the skills necessary to get a job or build a business. Accenture says that thought is corporate citizenship initiative program, Skills to Succeed, it has already equipped more than 320,000 people with skills […]
Continue reading …Corporate Training Spending Training Up 12% In 2012, Study Finds
20/02/2013 Comments Off on Corporate Training Spending Training Up 12% In 2012, Study Finds
Corporate training spending rose 12% on average in 2012, a sign that amidst greater financial stability, organizations are focused on reskilling their workforces, a new study found. The fining is one of the results of human resources consulting firm Bersin by Deloitte’s new training industry study, “The Corporate LearningFactbook 2013: Benchmarks, Trends, and Analysis of the […]
Continue reading …Otzi The Iceman Reveals Evidence Of Prehistoric Specialized Jobs
18/02/2013 Comments Off on Otzi The Iceman Reveals Evidence Of Prehistoric Specialized Jobs
By ROBERT SCALLY — It was the dawn of work and jobs as we now know them. During Otzi the iceman’s time about 5,300 years ago, specialized jobs were beginning to emerge as civilization moved from nomadic hunting and gathering to living in settlements and farming. Otzi the iceman lived during the Copper Age, and […]
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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 …- 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