The News Review:
- Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career
- How to Deal Live
- SC4 Career Fair to offer job networking opportunities
- Stretch Your Nest Egg: The Second Career
- Skills in a shrinking economy
Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career
New York Times
They have placed 9000 career changers in city teaching jobs since 2000. The available evidence suggests that most school districts have lots of qualified applicants for most of their vacancies. However growth in employment of non-traditional teachers does not imply that there are widespread ?shortages? of qualified job applicants. In fact the available evidence suggests that most school districts have lots of qualified applicants for most of their vacancies. For example in 2003-04 well before the current downturn but the most recent Department of Education data available 75 percent of a nationally representative sample of school administrators reported that it was ?easy? to fill a vacancy in elementary education. Even in the highest poverty schools 63 percent had a similar assessment. n the other hand a much smaller percentage reported that it was easy to fill a vacancy in math various science fields or special education (30-35 percent).
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How to Deal Live
Washington Post
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SC4 Career Fair to offer job networking opportunities
Port Huron Times Herald
Students can network and gain insight on the current job market. The fair is sponsored by the Student Success Center Advising Career and Employment Services at St. Clair County Community College. Employers can benefit from attending by showcasing their company recruiting and networking with other area employers. Employers who wish to participate should call (810) 989-5515. More than 30 organizations are expected to attend the event.
Stretch Your Nest Egg: The Second Career
Smartmoney.com
When retirees think about second careers the possibilities seem endless: Become a painter! pen a dog-biscuit shop! Read film scripts! Most of those dream jobs assume that the retiree wouldn’t need to make much money. But with portfolios in the tank that’s no longer true. And with at least 12 million Americans searching for work landing meaningful (or even paid) employment in a new industry is getting a lot harder for the graying set. Art Koff the CE of RetiredBrains. com a site that posts job opportunities for retirees says that full-time listings on his site dropped by about a third over the last four months of 2008 while traffic grew tenfold. And since switching careers often means a pay cut staying within the industry where they made their name often makes sense for retirees. That might sound bleak—isn’t the point of retirement to get out of the familiar grind? But experts point out that someone can stay in a familiar field while still getting a change of scenery and maybe even more interesting responsibilities.
Skills in a shrinking economy
guardian.co.uk
But under a Conservative government this figure would be doubled. Hayes also argued for greater self-regulation for further education (FE) colleges which he said must be “set free allowing them to respond to demand in their local communities”. The forgotten generation of “neets” (young people not in education employment or training) must be “rescued”. In the current climate it is vital not to lose skills from industry he argued. “What we don’t want is to lose people from engineering for them to go off and be taxi drivers” he said. Instead it is vital to look at how they might pass on their skills retraining as teachers in the lifelong learning and skills sector. Hayes was unable to stay for the duration of the event and did not take part in the question-and-answer session.