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In Praise of the United States—And The Question Of Education

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In Praise of the United States—And The Question Of Education

Peter Cappelli, professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School, writing filed this overview of global employment and education from last week’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland, in his column at heronline.com. One of the answers to unemployment is entrepreneurship that can actually create new jobs. For those […]

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Bridging The Job Skills Gap: Inforgrapic

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Bridging The Job Skills Gap: Inforgrapic

Job Skills Gap Infographic Despite America’s high unemployment rate, there are more than 3.7 million open job positions and 34% of American companies report difficulty filling critical positions. Is the jobs skills gap real? Experts argue if there is really a significant overall mismatch of jobs and skills to job seekers. The facts also point out that overall […]

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Coding for GOOD And A Good Job; Innovative Talent Hunt Bridges Job Skills Gap

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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 […]

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Nearly Half Of College Grads Are Overqualified For Jobs

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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% […]

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Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair Wages

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Fake Skills Shortage: Workers Have Skills But Lack Jobs & Fair Wages

Fake 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 […]

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India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education

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India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education

By MICHAEL REMEZ, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press— The recent gang rape and killing of a young woman in New Delhi – and the subsequent protests – have focused worldwide attention on gender issues in India. A 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey that examined attitudes about gender around the […]

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Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College

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Record: More Young Adults In U.S. Finishing High School And College

By RICHARD FRY and KIM PARKER, Pew Research Center— Record shares of young adults in the U.S. are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of 25- to 29-year-olds in the United States […]

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International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment

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International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment

ILO News- Around 88 million of the world’s child laborers are young girls under 18. Many are in the lowest paid, least secure jobs. They find themselves constrained by gender inequality at home and in the workplace. Others who work in the home remain invisible and unaccounted for. Guy Ryder, International Labour Organization director-general, has […]

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ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training

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ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training

International staffing firm ManpowerGroup is advocating that U.S. companies develop the skills of their local populations by collaborating with regional educators The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released 5 October 2012, reported the overall September jobless rate declined to 7.8 % from August’s 8.1% rate. The U.S. private sector added 114,000 new jobs last month, […]

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World Teachers Day: Teachers Worldwide Struggle To Educate Future Workers

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World Teachers Day: Teachers Worldwide Struggle To Educate Future Workers

ILO News– Amina* has been teaching for four years and she feels frustrated every day she goes into the government school where she works in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. “We receive a small salary of between US$120 – $190 a month, and when we are in the classroom we have a lot of challenges,” she said. […]

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