The News Review:
- Career Center brings hope in midst of hiring freeze
- Career counselors say graduates shouldn’t be discouraged by job market
- Teaching: No ‘Fallback’ Career
- NY gives lift to unemployed with gas card
- Grads working harder to find jobs
- Foreign businessmen organize job fair for career-building
- Job seekers frustrated with career fairs
Career Center brings hope in midst of hiring freeze
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The positions they vacate will be left unfilled and supervisors will be forced to find creative ways of accomplishing a higher workflow with fewer hands to help. Human Resource Consultant Jacquie Curry said students employed on campus have been able to switch positions or departments to gain new experience or to build their resumes but with this hiring freeze students will no longer be able to do that “there is an absolute stop on hiring” and she encourages students to hold on to their current positions. According to Director of Career Services Patricia Triggs supervisors have struggled for student employment in the past but could always rely on Federal Work Study students as backfill for the work that needed to be done. “This quarter there are no new Federal Work Study students to offer to supervisors” said Triggs. The only glimmer of light we have for student employment is our Work First Work Study. “Students in the Work First Program in addition to having their tuition and books covered can work on campus for one or two quarters subsidized through the program. These students usually transition into Federal Work Study but according to Triggs “right now they probably won’t get it.
Career counselors say graduates shouldn’t be discouraged by job market
Vermont Public Radio
Speaking Tuesday on Vermont Edition she said they may be harder toget but jobs are available:(Gardner) "Well you can’t open the newspaper or turn onthe radio or turn on the television without someone talking about how bad theeconomy is. And so I think that it’s very easy for students to hear thatsuperficial or surface level of information and focus on how there aren’t anyjobs. 5 percentunemployment in Vermont then wehave 92. 5 percent employment – and somebody is getting those jobs. "(Host)The National Association of Colleges and Employers released data last monththat businesses are hiring 22 percent fewer college graduates this over lastyear. Gardner says that survey data relies on large employers thatare hit harder by recessions.
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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).
NY gives lift to unemployed with gas card
Bizjournals.com
The money comes from federal funds allocated to New York under the Workforce Investment Act. The money may be used to buy gas cards swiper cards or reimbursement of mileage or public transportation expenses. Each local Workforce Investment Board decides what transportation assistance is best for its area and how the program will be administered.
Grads working harder to find jobs
Royal Purple News
Director of Career and Leadership Development Ron Buchholz said 2009 graduates can expect their job search to take longer than past years. “There are three main factors that make this so” he said. First there are fewer jobs available. In terms of job openings some employers are eliminating jobs choosing not to fill vacant positions or if they are hiring they are being more aware of their staffing needs.
Foreign businessmen organize job fair for career-building
GMA news.tv
The Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce Philippines the British Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines organized the Careers Fair at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City to “facilitate the right matching of companies’ human resource needs with qualified and skilled Filipino graduates and workers. Including the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Commission on Higher Education and Department of Labor and Employment along with businesses and human resource companies eager to meet with interested applicants the Careers Fair 2009 emphasizes on opportunities to build careers rather than merely providing job prospects. “The fact that these top companies spent resources to participate in the Career Fair should make us optimistic about employment in the Philippines. What they are looking for are competent applicants with the right skills looking to make the next step in their careers” said Ward who is this year's chairman of the Chambers Career Fair. Career opportunities in the business process outsourcing (BP) and IT industries education and journalism industries hospitality sector as well as in the sales marketing and public relations industry are featured in the career fair. “This makes hiring convenient for our company by making the applicants come to us rather than spending resources and time to seek out qualified people to fill our open posts” said Guenter Taus general manager of JEC Philippines.
Job seekers frustrated with career fairs
KVBC
They come in full of hope but career fairs these days are frequently frustrating affairs. “I've been going to these throughout the whole year and haven't found anything worthwhile yet” says job seeker Henry Chavez. ne complaint consistently voiced by job seekers at these career fairs is the lack of salaried employment available. But fair organizers make no apologies for that. Says career fair organizer Chelle Bize “I heard one gentleman say earlier ?Commission only is better than unemployment right now. ” So why do people continue to attend these events? “The idea is you're trying to get face-to face with someone – that's why you come” continues Jenkins. And another complaint constantly heard? “You'll wait in line for sometimes 40 minutes and finally get to the front and they'll tell you apply online” explains Chavez.