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The West made great strides because of it’s institutions based on the six killer apps. Let’s enhance these here in the U.S. and around the world. Watch Niall Ferguson explain the 6 killer apps of prosperity… Transcript: Let’s talk about billions. Let’s talk about past and future billions. We know that about 106 billion people [...]
I’m getting excited about the Garden State Council SHRM Conference on Nov. 1-2. I’ll be talking about how video and social media has become a game changer for recruitment. Below is the full description of the presentation. I’ve also posted the presentation time, location and some other information. Presentation Description: Video, combined with the Internet, is a game-changer for recruiting. [...]
A health care high school? Yes it exists in San Antonio Texas at Northside Health Careers High School. Each year the school accepts 250 students into the high school that is focused on health careers. As a kid a recall classmates going to Vo-Tech (vocational technical high school), a school that focused on preparing students [...]
Job market is tight, over the last two years college students have had found it much harder to land entry level jobs. With employers cutting back on college hiring, each open position has become more competitive. The temptation by jobseeker to take a shot gun approach is temping, but Wesley Thorne II, Asst. Director Career Services at Northwestern [...]
There’s much new chatter about .jobs (DotJobs) and rightly so because the process to register .jobs URLS should be fair. The chatter is also about the usefulness of .jobs. Back in 2006 I created a vlog (video blog) tittled “What is Dot Jobs,” at that point .jobs was still new, so the vlog was focused [...]
Employers added 162,000 jobs in March according to US DOL. This increase is the most since the recession began about three years ago. However analysts’ expected 190,000 jobs. The 162k total includes 48,000 temporary U.S. Census workers, but the 48K is less than expected. The National unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third [...]
Worker shortage, hard to believe in this 10% unemployment rate environment. We could have a 5-6 million worker shortage according to recent report from MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose. In a report Barry Bluestone, dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern [...]
Rachel Book (@RachelBook), Senior Manager, Talent Attraction at AT&T, demo’ing the AT&T iPhone recruitment app at the NYC Recruiting Meetup. The video is a little raw, but the content provides a overview of the app. For instance, it was interesting to learn that only two employers have iPhone app, AT&T was the first. The AT&T app is also [...]
A New JA/ING Teen Poll on Kids and Careers finds that 90% of teens believe they will have ideal job. The JA/ING Poll on kids and careers finds that a majority of teens are confident they will find their ideal career. The JA credits “job shadowing” to be a way to introduce kids to careers and [...]
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