Staffing employment in March is 9% higher than in the same month last year, according to the ASA Staffing Index. The index for March is 91, up one index point from 90 in February, suggesting that U.S. staffing employment has increased 1% over the past month. Staffing employment is typically lowest during the first few [...]
Job Description: CalHIPSO is a one-year old non-profit organization whose mission is to support the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) among California’s safety-net health care providers. CalHIPSO is one of 62 federally-designated Regional Extension Centers funded by the federal Office of the National Coordinator to support wide-spread adoption of EHRs across the nation and [...]
Delegations of local business, labor, college and workforce leaders from 22 different states came to Washington, DC, February 15-16 to call for investments in effective education and training strategies at NSC’s 2011 Skills Summit. In addition to taking part in over 100 meetings with Members of Congress, attendees met with officials from DOL’s Employment and Training [...]
The latest monthly jobs data offered a fairly upbeat outlook for the more than 14 million workers who remain sidelined by one of the slowest economic recoveries since the Great Depression. Employers added 192,000 jobs in February — the biggest jump since mid-2010 and the latest sign that the nation’s employment picture is set to [...]
Not everyone can or should go to college, so job training should get as much attention as the conventional path to a college degree, according to a report released by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The report, “Pathways to Prosperity,” says Americans “place far too much emphasis on a single pathway to success: attending [...]
Labor demand remains basically unchanged in February after rising 438,000 in January Demand for workers in computer and mathematical occupations is up in February NEW YORK, March 2, 2011…Online advertised vacancies dipped by 27,400 in February to 4,245,600 according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine™ (HWOL) Data Series released today. Labor demand has risen [...]
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, recently introduced two new products designed to improve the way businesses find and recruit high-quality passive candidates. At its first annual recruiting customer conference, David Hahn, vice president of product management at LinkedIn, shared a sneak peek at the upcoming Referral Engine, a solution that will enable companies to generate more [...]
House Republicans roll out $35 billion dollars worth of cuts they want to make in the budget for this year. It includes $2 billion slashed from job-training programs. Read the full article here.
Indeed has announced Indeed Resume, a simple way for anyone to add their resume to Indeed. From their free my.indeed account, job seekers can create a resume from scratch or upload an existing resume in any of dozens of common formats including Word, PDF, RTF, TXT, and HTML. Indeed Resume makes it easy to store, edit, [...]
Job postings for information technology approached 400,000 in February, according to Indeed’s Industry Employment Trends, reaching their highest level in over two years. In January, information technology job postings exceeded retail for the first time in over a year, moving IT into second place behind healthcare. IT maintained this position in February. Read more on [...]
