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• Up and Coming Leaders Lack the Skills to Lead

  
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  Click on picture to enlarge A glaring gap exists between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will need in five years, according to new research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Executives in the U.S., India and Singapore surveyed by CCL, a provider of executive education, ...
  3 days ago

• Survey: Seasonal Work is Top Reason for Hiring Contingents

  
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  The most-cited reason for using contingent labor by companies around the world is to complete work during peak seasonal periods, according to a survey released by Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN). Nineteen percent of firms surveyed cited it as the primary reason they use contingent labor. The next-most cited reason was as ...
  1 week ago

• Economic Downturn Leading to Decline in Employee Commitment, Morale

  
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  The cost-cutting actions that employers have been making to deal with the economic crisis have contributed to a sharp decline in the morale and commitment of their workers, especially top performers, according to an annual survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm, and WorldatWork, an international ...
  2 weeks ago

• Survey: 20% Say Firms Will Hire in 4th Quarter

  
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  Are we inching back to normal? About 20% of human resources professionals said their companies plan to hire in the fourth quarter, according to the labor market outlook quarterly survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. Another 14% planned to cut jobs, and 59% said their firms would maintain staff ...
  2 weeks ago

• Visual: US Unemployment Map by State – September 2009

  
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  Click picture to enlarge. Posted in Unemployment, Workforce Trends Tagged: North American Unemployment, September Unemployment, Unemployment Map, US Unemployment
  3 weeks ago

• “Contractor” Employee Misclassification is Costing Companies – Again

  
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  As a cable-television installer in Massachusetts, Fritz Elienberg drove a van and wore a shirt emblazoned with “Comcast.” He installed equipment from Comcast Corp., and customers paid the cable provider for his work. Mr. Elienberg wasn’t a Comcast employee, but a so-called independent contractor working for a ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Full U.S. Unemployment Picture – September 2009

  
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  Below is the A12 chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This chart gives the full unemployment picture of what is going on in the United States. These numbers cover a lot of varying categories and are often referred to but not always shown in full. Unfortunately at this point it is still not a pretty picture, I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Will All Our Needed Talent Go Down The Drain?

  
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  More than 50 percent of the science graduate students in the United States are foreign-born. Due to a lack of emphasis on the STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, and Math) subjects and the fear that the curricula will be too challenging, native-born students have passed up these post-college options. Filling the ...
  4 weeks ago

• H1N1 Will Expose Crisis of Finding Skilled Workers

  
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  On Friday,the Labor Department announced other uptick in unemployment. The announcement coincided with the arrival in my inbox of alerts of potentially significant skilled worker shortages.  How can that be? With over 15 million people unemployed and another nearly 10 million people under-employed (not counting ...
  6 weeks ago

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