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2 months, 1 week ago

Firms log on to NCS portal for job listings

The Union government has signed agreements with a slew of private firms, under which they will periodically list job vacancies on a state-run portal designed to act like a digital employment exchange, a move aimed at widening the reach of job The labour ministry has entered into Memorandum of Understanding with companies, such as the e-commerce platform Amazon and TMI …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Stable Job Market Despite Seasonal Fluctuation

China Daily

China's job market remains stable despite fluctuations in the employment rate. The unemployment rate averaged 5.1 percent in the first nine months of the year, with a slight rise in the third quarter due to new college graduates. However, the employment market is in stable condition due to the growing economy and its unchanged demands for labor forces.

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

UK will lose over 8 million jobs because of AI, almost 60% jobs to be affected if policies not updated

Firstpost

About 8 million workers may lose their jobs in the UK, and over 60% may see their jobs change drastically, if the Rishi Sunak-led UK government doesn’t bring policies to safeguard human jobs The UK government needs to make some massive policy changes to protect workers from AI. The Institute for Public Policy Research has issued a stark warning, estimating …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Nation aims to create over 12 million new jobs

China Daily

Job seekers check out a booth at a job fair held in Shenzhen, on April 15, 2023. According to the Government Work Report delivered on Tuesday, 12.44 million people landed jobs in urban areas in 2023 and the average surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas stayed at around 5.2 percent. This year, the government aims to create over 12 million …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Will Biden’s new American Climate Corps match the success of the California Conservation Corps?

LA Times

California Conservation Corps firefighters prepare as flames from the 2021 Alisal fire advance near Refugio Canyon on the Gaviota coast. Republicans, and a few Democrats — notably Sen. Joe Manchin — attacked it as a waste of money and “pure socialist wish fulfillment.” The corps’ enemies, however, never questioned that it would be effective. Over the last few years, I’ve …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Indian employee fired by Spotify says it feels like a bad dream, has 60 days to find a new job to stay in US

India Today

The tech job market is in shambles as employees keep getting struck by mass layoffs happening all over the world. Feels like a bad dream, says woman working in the US The woman was working with Spotify as a Software Engineer, Data, since the last 1.5 year. Beginning her post on a wretched note, she writes that the day before …

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2 years, 8 months ago

With no jobs, millions of Indians are exiting the labour force

Al Jazeera

Frustrated with the lack of good jobs, more than half of the 900 million Indians of working age no longer want one. Now, more than half of the 900 million Indians of legal working age — roughly the population of the U.S. and Russia combined — don’t want a job, according to the CMIE. “The large share of discouraged workers …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jobs have never been so secure. Bosses have stopped firing people

CNN

New York CNN Business — If you have a job today, chances have never been better that you can keep it as long as you want. The Labor Department data shows there are 0.67 job seekers for every job opening – or three job openings for every two people looking for work. They’re hanging onto everyone they can,” said Andy …

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3 years, 3 months ago

August's jobs numbers were bad. September was even worse, but there's room for hope

NPR

August's jobs numbers were bad. September was even worse, but there's room for hope Enlarge this image toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images A few months ago, forecasters thought September would be a banner month for hiring. That's even worse than the anemic job gains in August and far below the pace of hiring …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Huge budget boost to UC, CSU and community colleges targets student housing and job training

LA Times

The University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges will get a major funding boost under Gov. Newsom also is putting his mark on higher education, funding programs to achieve what he calls his top priorities of “affordability, access and efficiency.” Moving beyond tuition and fees to help students cover a broader array of college costs, Newsom is …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Youngsters hardest hit by coronavirus job losses, make more jobless benefit claims

Dutch News

Youngsters have been hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis, with some 139,000 fewer under 26-year-olds currently now in work, according to new figures from national statistics agency CBS. The state benefits agency UWV said on Thursday that the number of new unemployment claims rose by 42,000 in May, compared with 74,000 in April. ‘We don’t know what is ahead, particularly …

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4 years, 7 months ago

AP Explains: Key takeaways from a surprising jobs report

Associated Press

BALTIMORE — No one saw it coming — 2.5 million job gains in May and a lower unemployment rate. Here are five major takeaways from a jobs report that showed the economy faring better than believed, even if the overall picture remains bleak, with many millions still jobless and unemployment well into double digits. The racial disparities run counter to …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | Confirmed cases hit 1 million worldwide, deaths pass 50,000

The Hindu

The number of coronavirus infections worldwide has hit 1 million, with more than 50,000 deaths, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The coronavirus outbreak has thrown 10 million Americans out of work in just two weeks, the swiftest, most stunning collapse the U.S. job market has ever witnessed, and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not seen …

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