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- Budget offers workers chance at ‘second career’
- Winners of Preliminary Rounds of Tanmia-Damas Career Quiz 2008 in HCT…
- Risky Business
- Start me up
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Budget offers workers chance at ‘second career’
Toronto Star – Mar 26, 2008
The plan will also expand apprenticeship training with 32,500 new trainees annually by 2011 and expand training centres in addition to existing programs that help workers find new jobs quickly when their plants or companies close. "What we realized was we didn’t have long-term retraining for that individual (who) wants to pick up a new trade that takes one or two years," Duncan told a news conference. He was referring to the second careers program he said should be up and running by June 1 through existing employment counselling services. "If a sole breadwinner wants to go back (to school) there will be additional help that isn’t available under existing programs. "Workers laid off in the previous 12 months will be eligible but will have to go through a screening process that will measure their aptitude, goals and financial need ? including the size of any severance payments they’ve received, officials said. New figures from Statistics Canada show Ontario has lost more than 77,000 manufacturing jobs between 2001 and 2006, with many workers having trouble finding an equivalent, high-paying position as manufacturing jobs increasingly move to lower-wage jurisdictions because of the high Canadian dollar. Opposition parties said the effort to help laid-off workers is too little and too late.
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Winners of Preliminary Rounds of Tanmia-Damas Career Quiz 2008 in HCT…
Al-Bawaba – Mar 26, 2008
Al Ain Colleges of Technology beat Dubai Men’s College, Dubai Women’s College, Ras Al Khaimah Women’s College, Abu Dhabi Men’s College, Abu Dhabi Women’s College, Zayed Men’s College and Zayed Women’s College, to win the nomination from HCT to participate in the finals of the quiz that will be held during the 8th Careers UAE Exhibition at the World Trade Center on April 16, 2008. On the other hand, Zayed University Dubai secured the second nomination after beating Zayed University Abu Dhabi in the preliminary round hosted by the University. The Dubai team won with the slimmest margin of victory, underlining the high level of knowledge about career related topics among participating teams. Over 100 students from the three participating universities HCT (10 Colleges), Zayed University (Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and Emirates University are taking part in the quiz, with the top four of each College or university scheduled to meet in the finals that will be held during the 8th Careers UAE Exhibition at the World Trade Center on April 16, 2008.
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Risky Business
Forbes – Mar 26, 2008
“So the benefits of this change are real, but so are the risks,” Sonnenfeld concluded, “to the companies, and to those executives. “How can you make sure you don’t fall into the trap exposed by “branded” executives who got too big for their own britches? A good upbringing can help. But here are eight other things to remember:The Right To Lead Is Earned Every Day Don’t confuse career ascendance, however dizzying or fast, with divinity. You must continuously demonstrate competence, expertise, vision and honesty if you want people to follow you, said Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge and executive fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. “When people reach the C-suite level, there often begins to be an assumption of self-importance,” he says. “It doesn’t matter to them if their behavior is autocratic and capricious. But they should remember that leadership is a relationship… “We often misattribute the permission we’re given to lead by our constituents to a permission to behave however we want,” Kouzes said. And in this era of increased scrutiny on all C-level executives, because of Sarbanes-Oxley, you’re being held to ever-higher standards–not lower. “Many companies are so focused on compliance that they lose sight of the fact that there is a whole range of ‘image behaviors,’” said Stephen Paskoff, president of Employment Learning Innovations, an Atlanta company that provides workplace-conduct training. “So we tell clients to focus on behavior at all levels that is in line with your values, beyond just legal concerns,” he said. “It’s also about developing a culture that says certain types of behavior won’t be sanctioned, whether they’re technically illegal or not. Giving Respect Earns Respect Even if you’re being brought in as a change agent, you must appreciate the values that undergird the pre-existing corporate culture. For example, Roehm’s biggest mistake after Wal-Mart hired her away from a marketing post at Chrysler in early 2006 was thumbing her nose unnecessarily at parts of Wal-Mart culture that really were irrelevant to what she was hired to do: shake up marketing.
Start me up
Globe and Mail – Mar 26, 2008
4 million, with 58. 4 per cent of them firms of fewer than five employees. Significant engines of growth and employment, these small enterprises accounted for 34. 5 per cent of Canada’s GDP in the third quarter of 2007, according to Industry Canada. Meanwhile, independent-minded young people are redefining notions of work and career, with less inclination than their parents to define success as joining a big company for life. “The message has gotten out that this offers a career with a degree of flexibility and autonomy that a lot of this younger generation of people find really attractive,” says Larry Wynant, associate dean of programs at the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ont. “Students are saying ‘I don’t know that I want to be in a big, hierarchical organization,’