The News Review:
- Irene Krechowiecka answers your employment questions
- TC programs offer training in automotive field
- Dozens of Quad City companies expected to hire at career expo
- Graduates encounter a brutal job market
- Postsecondary Education Goes to Work
- Contra Costa gets $6.3M for workforce training
Irene Krechowiecka answers your employment questions
guardian.co.uk
I need something active and demanding that uses my degree. I like the idea of being run off my feet in charge of my own workload feeling I’m doing something worthwhile. I’ve applied for a PGCE but worry I’m going for teaching because I can’t think of anything else. If you seriously can’t think of alternatives you’re not really trying.
TC programs offer training in automotive field
News-Leader.com
The classes were chosen by school officials in order to equip students with the training to go to work in the shortest timeframe possible. Students completing the program will benefit from placement assistance through TC’s Career Employment Services office and from Transportation Division personnel. There is no guarantee of employment made or implied. Shirley Lawler Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs said college officials talked with employers and the Missouri Career Center which serves the local unemployed about what technical programs are needed in the immediate future. Kerry Wrinkle TC’s Transportation Division Chair said when someone finishes the training the student should be able to work in any automotive shop that does car or truck alignments and possess the skills to install brakes and service air conditioning. “The course will offer a good mix from working on cars as well as trucks” Wrinkle said.
Dozens of Quad City companies expected to hire at career expo
WQAD
com means her connections around town will land someone else their next gig. The employment group will host a career expo next week at The Lodge in Bettendorf. It’s free and runs from noon until 6pm next Tuesday May 19th. There are dozens of businesses already coming and some last minute news is making this a do-not-miss event for anyone hunting for an opportunity. “We have one company where that information is jut not made public yet. They’re going to be able to be at the career expo at the last minute and they have to hire quite a few jobs” Meyer said.
Graduates encounter a brutal job market
Buffalo News
What she found is that workers who graduated in a recession earned 7 percent to 8 percent less during their first year in the work force compared to workers who graduated in better times. But that trend persisted as long as 18 years later when their salaries were still 2 percent lower. The reasoning is that recession grads may have to take lower-wage lower-caliber jobs as demand for employment rises keeping them from developing skills they should have picked up right out of college. Tucker a finance and economics major at Canisius had been working as an intern for a small financial firm in Buffalo which offered him a job after graduation but the company had to close. “I didn’t apply to any grad schools because I had a job” said Tucker from Amherst. There actually is employment out there said Buffalo State’s Zuckerman-Aviles. The federal government has been hiring she said as well as businesses in the financial and health care sectors.
Postsecondary Education Goes to Work
Inside Higher Ed
It tells a lot about the shape of things to come. Education training and employment and social services policy have always been grouped in the same federal budget category –. But the programs have never been integrated.
Contra Costa gets $6.3M for workforce training
Bizjournals.com
us Digg This Contra Costa County’s workforce development officials landed $6. 3 million in federal stimulus money to boost employment in the area. f the total amount $2. 5 million is being allocated to a summer youth employment program that will teach employment skills to participants from ages 14 to 24 and then place them in paid positions with local businesses. At these jobs each participant will get further training and be mentored by a career counselor.
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