The News Review:
- Job Seekers Bend Ears of Advisers, Recruiters
- Cosmetology: A Bright Spot In Gloomy Employment Landscape
- Lone parents highly motivated to find work
- Group proposes skills-based school accountability system
Job Seekers Bend Ears of Advisers, Recruiters
Wall Street Journal
Cockrell breathed a sigh of relief. His Ford Escape was wrapped in an ad for the specialized employment-listing site and it had been attracting a lot of attention. The trooper “said his wife had just got laid off and they have a baby on the way,” recalls Mr. Cockrell, who until two weeks ago was director of public relations for Jobing. He gave the trooper his business card and a company pamphlet listing job-search tips.
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Cosmetology: A Bright Spot In Gloomy Employment Landscape
Imperial Valley News, CA
Department of Labor estimates the profession will grow by 14 percent from 2006 to 2016, a faster rate of growth than the average for all other occupations studied. Beauty School Is The Best Way
This growth rate is one reason that the industry now needs more new professionals than it can supply, making cosmetology a career worth exploring. Think you’d like to be a cosmetologist? The best way to pursue such a career, whether as a hairstylist, colorist, a esthetician, nail technician or makeup artist, is to go to beauty school. According to Empire Education Group, the nation’s largest chain of cosmetology schools under single ownership, many aspiring cosmetologists are finding that the current job market has made this the perfect time to go back to school. "When the economy goes down, school enrollment often goes up, and we have already seen a bump," says Franklin K. Schoeneman, CEO and chairman of Empire Education Group.
Lone parents highly motivated to find work
Irish Times, Ireland
It was funded by the Combat Poverty Agency and assisted by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Report author Candy Murphy, the research and policy manager with One Family, said the study highlighted a high level of motivation among lone parents on welfare benefits to participate in employment. The findings also highlighted the need to find ways to support lone parents to pursue their career plans and to achieve sustainable employment, she said. The report’s findings come at a time when the Government is drawing up proposals to change the way the State provides welfare support to lone parents. The reforms will oblige single parents to be available for work when the youngest child reaches a certain age, which has yet to be specified. The move is part of an international trend towards greater “avtivation”, or engagement in the labour force, of people of working age who are reliant on welfare. Ms Murphy called on the Government to ensure such measures are voluntary and accompanied by supports, such as affordable childcare and the removal of “poverty traps”.
Group proposes skills-based school accountability system
Brownsville Herald, TX United States
“It’s a definition of what defines post-secondary success and it’s going to be Job 1 to get that firmly established,” said Jim Windham, chairman of the Texas Institute for Educational Reform. TIER, along with the Governor’s Business Council, Texas Association of Business and The Texas Public Policy Foundation, formed the Texas Coalition for a Competitive Workforce to address public school accountability, career and technology training and educator effectiveness. Windham was in the Rio Grande Valley during the weekend to make presentations about the coalition’s reform agenda as part of a statewide informational campaign. He said Texas has made significant progress in increasing student achievement, but much remains to be done to be competitive with other nations, which have higher high school graduation standards and whose students outperform their U.