The News Review:
- How to bounce back from unemployment
- Career Watch: What the financial crisis could mean for IT pros
- Career track at CP onward, upward
How to bounce back from unemployment
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
But I also see a lot of joy when we fill a job. You realize you’ve made a difference in someone’s life. With California’s unemployment rate at a 12-year high of 7. 7 percent, Greenberg, who purchased Express Employment Professionals of Pleasanton in 2004, is dealing with more people seeking fewer jobs. He is reaching out to companies only to hear they are freezing hiring or laying off workers. “We have to work a lot harder to maintain our business,” said Greenberg, 59. “It’s easy for people to get discouraged in this climate, but the people we end up placing the most successfully are confident about their skills and have a good attitude.
Career Watch: What the financial crisis could mean for IT pros
Computerworld, MA
Bottom line, considering the lag time between business decisions and direct labor-market effects, we won’t see much IT workforce reduction or jobs being outsourced this quarter, except perhaps those that are bankruptcy-related. But starting next year, thousands of permanent IT professionals will be incrementally cast off from employers large and small. Many will find new employment, join the ranks of the “partially employed” or return to school. This isn’t a big deal, though, considering that the overall size of the U. IT workforce is approximately 4 million. Some independent consultants may suffer, but the diversified, global IT services vendors will suffer only minimally and will continue to hire to fill demand.
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Career track at CP onward, upward
Calgary Herald, Canada
Yerema and his team scoured through a list of 75,000 employers to whittle it down to a record number of 16,000 who were invited to participate. About 2,000 employers made the short-list for closer examination of Canada’s Top Employers in 2009. Patti Clarkson, an employment advisor at CP, believes that being ranked among the top employers will pay dividends down the line. “We have eight people doing recruiting out of our employment centre, but we have 15,000 employees that can also recruit for us,” she says. “By reading this, it reaffirms their belief in their company.
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