When Michael Griffiths talks to business leaders about their company’s professional development goals, one of the first questions he asks is, “Do you know what you’re spending on learning?” And how do you know that? “ As the lead manager of Deloitte’s learning consulting practice in North America, Griffiths sawRead More →
68% worrying employment rate, according to the deputy SDLP. The MP for Foyle said young adults in the city in particular were severely affected by what she described as a growing unemployment crisis. According to the latest labor market statistics, the employment rate (the percentage of working-age adults with aRead More →
Workforce development has become an increasingly important topic for the agricultural equipment industry in recent years. While much attention has been paid to the challenge of finding and retaining qualified service technicians, the problem of workforce development is much larger than that. Training employees for future senior and mid-level leadershipRead More →
SINGAPORE: The employment agency Adecco Personnel has been appointed to help local job seekers obtain opportunities under the SGUnited employment and skills package, the Ministry of Manpower said. Work (MOM) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) Monday March 22. Adecco is SGUnited Jobs and Skills’s first such placement partner, and the appointmentRead More →
SINGAPORE – Adecco Personnel was selected as the first employment agency to be a placement partner of SGUnited Jobs and Skills to provide job seekers with professional placement services. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) announced the appointment in a statement on Monday March 22. Having placementRead More →
Recent statistics show that more South Korean women leave the workforce in their 30s than their counterparts in other OECD countries. The female employment rate in Seoul has an “M†shape as opposed to a U shape commonly found in major advanced countries. According to the Korea Economic Research InstituteRead More →
Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment data fell three-tenths of a percentage point from 4.9% in December 2020 to 4.6% in January 2021, according to a report released March 15 by the Services Division. of the Arkansas workforce. The unemployment rate for December 2020 has been revised upwards from 4.2% to 4.9%.Read More →
Through: PridePersonal | 0 Actions 217 readings March 16, 2021 // Franchising.com // HUNTSVILLE – PrideStaff is pleased to announce the opening of a new staffing and employment agency in Huntsville, AL. The new office will provide a full range of staffing and employment services in a variety of professionalRead More →
BWG Foods has announced that it is preparing to move its employee professional development initiative, BWG Academy, to an online training and education resource. The BWG Academy, which was officially launched in 2019 just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, was designed to offer a wide range of self-developmentRead More →
Singapore’s Minister of Manpower also pointed out that a welcome change in the workplace would be to have more representation of women on company boards. The female employment rate in Singapore remained fairly stable at around 73% in 2020, said Minister of Manpower Josephine Teo. The dismissal rates among menRead More →
Spain’s employment agency has been hit by a major ransomware attack, destroying hundreds of offices across the country at a time when the pandemic had already strained the department. A note on SEPE’s website explained that a “security incident” had affected the availability of its ITC systems and that workRead More →
According to a report by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy is showing signs of recovery with 379,000 more jobs and an unemployment rate that has fallen to 6.2%. The report also states that black women are among the minority groups who have done much worse thanRead More →
PPD, headquartered in Wilmington, has been recognized for the 10th consecutive year as one of America’s leading companies for employee learning and development, according to a press release. The global contract research organization has been named to Training magazine’s Top 100 Companies list, which “recognizes companies that demonstrate measurable resultsRead More →
File photo of TE’s offices in Pasila, Helsinki. Image: Markku Ulander / Lehtikuva The number of people with jobs in January this year fell by 61,000 compared to January 2020, according to preliminary figures released by Statistics Finland. Finland’s employment rate now stands at 69.9%, two percentage points lower thanRead More →