Categories: Career News, Employment Updates | November 30th, 2009 | by Administrator | no comments
Most of us are already aware of the state of the economy in general and the employment market in particular. But the question that remains is, where are the job losses? According to TheCareerNews.com, the sectors that have been greatly affected by the recent economic downturns include construction, manufacturing, business services and retail. For instance, the construction industry alone cut 51,000 jobs last month.
Factory workers in companies manufacturing furniture and wood products also saw the lost of around 48,000 jobs last month. On the other hand, the business services sector lost some 35,000 workers while the retail industry has been hit the lightest with job cuts of only 12,400.
Slowdown in sales is said to be the main cause of job losses and this is attributed to the impact of sub-prime mortgage crisis on consumer spending. For the link to the article, click here.
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With a new government to take over next year, and a recession that is biting hard hope is the only thing that is certain and free. The government promises to create more jobs and pass legislature that would assist those who have lost their jobs and homes. Mainly in law enforcement and civil services such as public works, these jobs are aimed to quell the rising crime rate that would be sure to gain ground during these dark economic times.
It may take years for the economy to rebound and most major employment industries for both white and blue collar jobs are forced to trim their workforces or close shop all together jobs will become scarcer day by day. Hiring is out of the question for most firms who are barely managing to survive, just hope the change the new president promises brings a swift end to this recession to help get us back on our feet.
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Categories: Employment Updates | September 29th, 2008 | by Administrator | no comments
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The success of tourism in India has given rise to a great demand for quality professionals. Tourism hospitality is one of the largest service business in the world. They are guided by codes of conduct, employee manuals, and industry standards. Hotel jobs in India are often overlooked by professionals, but its true potential is tremendous. Indian professionals are being hired by international hotels and cruise ships. Hotel jobs are those jobs involved with the hospitality industry. The industry covers a wide chain of hotels, restaurants, catering, offices and educational institutions. The demand for Indian hotel managers and staff is very high. This is true of the Middle Eastern region. Cities like Dubai. One reason for that is the fact that they lack local manpower. And there are few institutions designed to train professionals. They prefer Indian workforce because they have high educational level and the quality of education standards. Followed by specialized training schools for Hospitality Management.
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Internet is very common to us because of known website that we use in everyday like myspace, yahoo, friendster, google, and etc. but do we know that its easy to make our own static pages that may help our business, products, or services more exposed to global market. and this is also the reason why the demand for Freelance Web Designer has sprout anywhere either local or international. most of this job vacancies can be see at www.getafreelancer.com because there are companies who search for freelance web programmer who can make static pages (that can be learned using the tutorial site of W3schools.org), and there are also companies that look for freelance web programmer who have expertise in different client side programming tools like PHP, SQL, MySQL, ASP, JSP, Ruby on rails, and etc. because this client script can make dynamic pages with different modules such as Administrative module that the company use to modify their site in simple manners
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