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The Skills Gap: A Global Problem
As many countries celebrate International Workers’ Day tomorrow, let’s think about the importance of education in skills training for getting young people into work: http://bit.ly/12Xmrrw
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Five Tips for Recent College Graduates!
It’s graduation time and thousands of college grads are hopeful about what the future holds. For some, that future is a vision they can see clearly and for others, it’s fuzzy and they are just...
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African American Income, Education Growing Faster Than Expected
BY ATLANTA DAILY WORLD With an estimated $1 billion in buying power, African-American consumers are some of the most sought after in business. A new report from the Nielsen company suggests that...
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How to Get a Job
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Underneath the huge drop in demand that drove unemployment up to 9 percent during the recession, there’s been an important shift in the education-to-work model in America. Anyone...
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Work from home soars 41% in 10 years
By Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox About four million more Americans work from home than did in 1999, a new report says. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The number of Americans working from home has soared 41% in...
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Careers On Their Way Out (And What’s Here to Stay)
Warning: Your future job may be in decline. Before you make any sudden moves, check out these smarter, more stable alternatives. By Danielle Blundell You’ve heard it before – all jobs aren’t created...
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Skype Hype: Are You Prepared For A Video Job Interview?
MAURICE GARLAND Companies are cutting costs and conducting job interviews via web. Are you ready? When the video conferencing tool Skype achieved popularity in the middle of the last decade, it was...
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High-tech gains give disabled people work
MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer AP When high school football coach Kevin Bella needs an intense, heart-to-heart with a player, he goes home and sits on his couch. That’s because Bella, who is deaf,...
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Why There Are Too Few Cooks For New York City’s Elite Kitchens
by JANE BLACK Listen to the Story Morning Edition 3 min 31 sec Playlist Download Transcript A view inside the kitchen at chef Peter Hoffman’s farm-to-table restaurant, Back Forty West, in New York’s...
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Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company
by SHANKAR VEDANTAM Listen to the Story Morning Edition 4 min 40 sec Playlist Download Transcript The racial wage gap in the United States — the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar...
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CARIBBEAN TECHNOLOGY NEWS SUMMARY for the week ending August 2nd, 2013
CENTRAL BANK ISSUES FIRST PRIVATE MOBILE MONEY LICENSE—07/27/13 The mobile-money product of the Jamaica Co-Operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) has received approval from the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ),...
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This Is What Would Happen If Fast-Food Workers Got Raises
Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg An employee delivers food at a Sonic Corp. drive-in restaurant in Normal, Illinois Workplace By Venessa Wong Even McDonald’s (MCD) own hypothetical household budget...
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Tweeting about a new job can get you sued
Companies eye social media to enforce non-solicitation agreements By Jonnelle Marte Shutterstock When they move to a new company, executives and employees these days often break the news on Twitter,...
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20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get
Jason Nazar, Contributor I run Docstoc and write about entrepreneurship I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group...
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Degree Inflation: More Employers Raising Minimum Education Requirements for...
In some industries, this practice reaps bigger revenue wins by Janell Hazelwood (Image: Thinkstock) A recent survey published by Lorin Hitt (professor, Wharton School, UPenn), Prasanna Tambe (Stern...
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5 Tips to Help You Build a More Inspired and Productive Team in 2014
blackenterprise.comby C. Daniel Baker by C. Daniel Baker Is your perception of the workplace environment at your small or medium sized business reality? According to the latest Randstad Engagement...
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Five errors that immediately get your resume rejected at Google
Avoid the reject pile. Reuters/Michaela Rehle WRITTEN BY Laszlo BockSenior vice president of people operation, Google I’ve sent out hundreds of resumes over my career, applying for just about every...
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The Hard Data on Being a Nice Boss
Emma Seppälä There’s an age-old question out there: Is it better to be a “nice” leader to get your staff to like you? Or to be tough as nails to inspire respect and hard work? Despite the recent...
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The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
SLIDE SHOW|10 Photos ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Frank Walsh still pays dues to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more than four years have passed since his name was called at the union...
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The Key to a Good-Paying Job Is…Microsoft Excel?
By LAUREN WEBER Could this be the ticket to a good-paying job? iStockphoto/Getty Images Want a job that promises a living wage and a good shot at a middle-class life? LearnMicrosoft MSFT +0.13%...
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