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More than 8,000 Detroit youths hired for summer job program
A program that gives young Detroiters an early opportunity to gain work experience exceeded its goal of hiring more than 8,000 kids.
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In Towns Already Hit by Factory Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs
Thousands of workers face unemployment as retailers struggle to adapt to online shopping. But even as e-commerce grows, it isn’t absorbing these workers.
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How to tell job applicants they didn't get the job
How to give compassionate feedback to applicants who didn't get the job
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You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview. Here’s the data.
In the last few months, several large players, including Google and Facebook, have released their latest — and ultimately disappointing …
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As lay-offs in IT industry rise, creating new jobs in the digital era will call for a new education system
There has been growing concern about job creation in the context of increase in automation and several roles becoming redundant as a result in every industry.
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Find and become a mentor in IT
Wherever you are on your IT career path, it pays to find an experienced advisor who can guide you through pitfalls and shortcuts, both within your company and in the broader industry. But you need to find the right person and avoid jumping into an alliance with the wrong one.
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Uber is pushing anti-union propaganda to its drivers
Uber has argued repeatedly that a federal law meant to prevent price fixing prohibits its drivers from collectively bargaining. But on December 15, 2015, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that, for the first time in the U.S., would allow drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to unionize.
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A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid. By now it’s no longer just the Silicon Valley trend watchers and technoprophets who are apprehensive. In a study that has already racked up several hundred citations, scholars at Oxford University have estimated that no less than 47% of all American jobs and 54% of those in Europe are at a high risk of being usurped by machines.
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The Biggest Employer in Each US State
Wal-Mart is Everywhere--and that's profoundly depressing.
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Disabled, or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
In rural Alabama, a man faced a difficult choice: Keep looking for work, or apply for disability? The lobby at the pain-management clinic had become crowded with patients, so relatives had gone outside to their trucks to wait, and here, too, sat Desmond Spencer, smoking a 9 a.m. cigarette and watching the door. He tried stretching out his right leg, knowing these waits can take hours, and winced. He couldn’t sit easily for long, not anymore, and so he took a sip of soda and again thought about what he should do.
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Automation's impact will be grave, 4 out of 10 jobs to go: Experts
Automation is the new norm across sectors and will affect the bottom of the pyramid so much so that four out of every 10 jobs globally would be lost due to this by 2021, experts say. Automation is the new normal in sectors like engineering, manufacturing, automobiles, IT and banking. As automation adoption increases, all high transaction and labour intensive jobs will take a hit.
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Top paying data center and infrastructure jobs
It's possible to have a career in data center or infrastructure. You just have to do something else besides.
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How Foxconn’s broken pledges in Pennsylvania cast doubt on Trump’s jobs plan
For some residents of this small city, there was something familiar about Foxconn’s recently announced plan to hire up to 50,000 U.S. workers, one of the many hiring pledges from companies rounded up by President Trump in the first weeks of his administration. The only difference was the scale. In 2013, Foxconn’s chairman sent a jolt through this state capital when he said his company — best known for making Apple iPhones in China — would invest $30 million and hire 500 workers for a new high-tech factory in central Pennsylvania.
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Abe to propose plan for creating 700,000 U.S. jobs
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to propose during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 10 a bilateral economic cooperation plan, including the creation of a $450 billion (¥51 trillion) market through railways and other infrastructure investments in the United States to generate 700,000 jobs, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Trump has recently been stepping up criticism against the Japanese car market and the depreciation of the yen. Given the circumstances, Abe plans to emphasize during the upcoming talks that the bilateral cooperation will be of great advantage to the U.S. economy.
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L.A. is the bad jobs capital of the U.S.
The latest figures on Los Angeles County residents’ educational attainment might lead you to think that way too many of them don’t have enough schooling to get a job. Twenty-one percent of Angelenos over 25 have a high school diploma but nothing more, while 22% of them, according to the year-end survey by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., don’t even have that.
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A court has ruled time taken travelling to work should count as work
Time taken to travel to and from work at the beginning and end of each day should count as working time under the law, according to the Europe’s highest court. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that workers without a fixed office should be able to charge for the time such journeys last, whereas at present they are not allowed to do so. It could mean that companies employing such workers as electricians, gas fitters, care workers and sales reps could be in breach of EU working time regulations...
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There will be much less work in the future. Societies need to get ready, now
A war on wheels has been raging in London since Uber started operating there four years ago. Traditional black cab drivers have been up in arms about the new high tech disruptor. Uber has accused London’s Mayor of siding with the black cabs and has taken legal action against Transport for London, which is planning new regulations to limit the number of private hire vehicles. In November, more than 100 Uber drivers mounted a “go slow” protest in London to put pressure on the company to pay the minimum wage.
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British Asians 'struggle for top jobs despite better school results'
Children of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin in Britain have outperformed other ethnic groups to achieve rapid improvements at every level of education, but are significantly less likely to be employed in managerial or professional jobs than their white counterparts, according to a study. A report to be published on Wednesday by the government’s Social Mobility Commission says the trend is being driven in part by workplace discrimination, particularly against Muslim women.
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Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
The incoming Trump administration has made job creation a national priority. But here is a sobering prediction: No matter which political party holds the White House or Congress, over the next 25 years, 47% of jobs will likely be eliminated by technology and globalization, according to WorkingNation. It’s a phenomenon called “structural unemployment” and it affects nearly all industries and even white-collar workers. Venture capitalist Art Bilger founded WorkingNation to sound the alarm about the coming crisis and to spark discussions about potential solutions.
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Obama Administration Warns A.I. Could Destroy “Millions” of Jobs
Forget China and Mexico. The real threat (and future) is the same technology powering your phone.
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