Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain hi-tech jobs in the U.S., the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a $36 million campaign to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia, InformationWeek reports. Later we learned that USAID also launched a similar program in Armenia.
After their training, the tech workers will be hired by outsourcing vendors that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the low labor costs.
Under President Obama’s appointee director Rajiv Shah, USAID will partner with private outsourcers in other countries to teach workers advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help them improve their English language skills. Read this »
You’d think we’d have grown past it by now, but sexual discrimination and sexual harassment still rear their ugly heads in the workplace. You can and should avoid it, much as you avoid the flu, making sure not to be on the receiving end and never, ever being a donor.
Here’s how to immunize yourself:
1) Know It When You See It
a) Sexual Discrimination
Sexual discrimination exists when a person is treated differently simply because of his or her gender, and when that different treatment also affects the “terms or conditions of employment” in a negative way. Sexual discrimination is illegal.
The United States used to have the largest and most prosperous middle class in the world, but now that is changing and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a blinding speed.
The main reason for such fundamental changes is the side effects of the globalism and “free trade” that our leaders insisted would be so good for us. It turned out that they forgot to tell us that in “global economy” American workers would eventually have to directly compete for jobs with people in other countries with no minimum wage and few other regulations. Over the last several decades the big global corporations have greatly benefited by exploiting third world labor, but more and more middle class Americans have found things to be very tough.
Most people have nothing to offer in the marketplace other than their labor and absolutely dependent on someone else giving them a job. U.S. workers are much less attractive today compared to the rest of the world. They are extremely expensive, and the government keeps passing regulations that makes it even more difficult to conduct business in the United States. Therefore large corporations are moving operations out of the U.S. and, since the U.S. government does not penalize them for doing so, there is no incentive for them to stay. Read this »
With college graduates anxiously searching for jobs, employers are finding that “helicopter” parents are becoming increasingly involved in their children’s job search. Now, more than ever, employers and recruiters are seeing parents attending job fairs, making job interview appointments, and even showing up for job interviews accompanying their children! Some employers are responding to this trend by training their hiring managers to handling helicopter parents, who constantly hover over their children’s lives.
What’s even more troubling is that this generation is not embarrassed by it. In fact, many young employees are actually asking for their parents’ involvement. The consensus among hiring managers is that helicopter parents create a negative view and such involvement backfires; it hurts their children’s chances of getting a job. Employers certainly don’t want to have to deal with parents and they want to hire mature, independent adults that can perform on their own, be their own advocates, and take personal responsibility. Employers are thinking, “Can this individual perform duties expected of them? Are they going to call their parents every time they run into a problem? Who are we hiring? Are we hiring the candidate or their mommy and daddy?” Read this »
You’d think we’d have grown past it by now, but sexual discrimination and sexual harassment still rear their ugly heads in the workplace. You can and should avoid it, much as you avoid the flu, making sure not to be on the receiving end and never, ever being a donor.
With college graduates anxiously searching for jobs, employers are finding that “helicopter” parents are becoming increasingly involved in their children’s job search. Now, more than ever, employers and recruiters are seeing parents attending job fairs, making job interview appointments, and even showing up for job interviews accompanying their children! Some employers are responding to this trend by training their hiring managers to handling helicopter parents, who constantly hover over their children’s lives.
