The News Review:
- Irene Krechowiecka answers your employment questions
- You Won’t Get Hired That Way: 5 Common Job Seeking Mistakes
- Community colleges offer help for job-hunters
- Military Experience to Civilian Career
- Health jobs appeal to young Californians
Irene Krechowiecka answers your employment questions
guardian.co.uk UK
Approaches to recruiters have not had positive results as they are looking for solid experience in a business environment. I’ve been told they look for candidates with maths or statistics backgrounds. Any advice on what I can do to break into this career?Market research companies are generally more concerned about relevant work experience than specific qualifications. Your academic background should not be a barrier; the big hurdle is getting experience. A number of large agencies have graduate training programmes. Take a look at the programmes offered by Ipsos Mori Kantar Operations and GfK NOP for example. Most agencies don’t have fixed rules around degree subjects.
You Won’t Get Hired That Way: 5 Common Job Seeking Mistakes
UC Daily News TN
Unfortunately our instinctive response is not our best response when it comes to finding employment. Like flying an airplane job seeking turns out to be a counter-intuitive process. Take a look at the five patterns most people follow and why those choices are not their best: Mistake #1: It’s On MonsterToday our first inclination is to head to the web to find job openings. Monster Career Builder.
Community colleges offer help for job-hunters
Arizona Republic AZ
The unemployment rate in metro Phoenix hit 5. 5 percent last month with November figures released in the coming weeks expected to climb. “It’s scary now and it will be scary into next year” said Scott Schulz who directs the Career and Employment Services Center at Glendale Community College. There is a wide variety of options for those laid off including help in the West Valley. Unemployment rates exist only for the Phoenix metro area as a whole but economist Elliott Pollack said that while it’s bad everywhere the West Valley is likely feeling a slightly worse downturn. The Valley economist doesn’t foresee long-term damage although he expects the short-term pain to continue well into 2009.
Military Experience to Civilian Career
Army.com Al
Department of Labor. The Department of Labor expects that from 2006 to 2016 total U. employment should increase by 15. 6 million jobs or 10 percent. However job growth will vary across industry groups.
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Health jobs appeal to young Californians
San Francisco Chronicle USA
These are jobs like medical assistants and pharmacy and emergency-medicine technicians which are known in the industry as allied health professions. Health care is one of only two sectors along with government that actually added jobs in November according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. Health care employment grew by 34000 jobs last month. The sector added 369000 jobs over the past 12 months. “There is absolutely a tremendous career opportunity for people who want to look at health care particularly in the allied health professions” said Jan Emerson spokeswoman for the California Hospital Association. The trade group for the state’s hospitals was not involved in the survey. While efforts have been made to start addressing the well-documented nationwide nursing shortage less had been done about shortages of various allied health jobs.