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Spanish government pledges €3.5 billion to boost youth labor market

Spanish government pledges €3.5 billion to boost youth labor market
Spain's government has approved €3,485 billion to be invested in programs to facilitate the insertion of young people into the labor market between 2013 and 2016 . According to La Razón newspaper, 32 per cent of that amount will be ...
Posted: 21 March 2013 10:26:12
Filed under: Europe, Labor market legislation
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Young jobseekers 'held back by poor computer skills'

Young jobseekers 'held back by poor computer skills'
Even though it is commonly believed that the younger generation has a good grasp of computer skills, it seems that the ever-increasing dependency on IT knowledge is having a significant impact on people's ability to enter the job market ...
Posted: 12 March 2013 17:02:31
Filed under: Europe, IT Recruitment
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A pilot Franco-German employment agency inaugurated in Kehl

A pilot Franco-German employment agency inaugurated in Kehl
German and French Ministers of Labor Ursula von der Leyen and Michel Sapin unveiled on Tuesday (February 26th) the first Franco-German employment agency, which represents the first step towards closer cooperation between these types of organizations ...
Posted: 01 March 2013 09:05:11
Filed under: Europe, Labor migration
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Dutch education ministry wants more women in top jobs

Dutch education ministry wants more women in top jobs
More women than men graduate from Dutch universities and higher education courses, but top jobs in education institutions in the Netherlands do not reflect this.The best jobs in universities and higher education schools are mostly taken up ...
Posted: 27 February 2013 11:36:57
Filed under: Education Recruitment, Europe, HR recruitment
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Belgian labor row is eye opening

Belgian labor row is eye opening
Japanese corporations wanting to do business in Belgium are being offered a warm welcome by the Belgium-Japan Association, which has created a new brochure in which it states that it is 'as easy to recruit Belgian service personnel as it is to ...
Posted: 26 February 2013 11:42:47
Filed under: Europe, Labor market legislation
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Boost to older workforce helps lower UK unemployment

Boost to older workforce helps lower UK unemployment
UK unemployment dropped by 0.1 percentage points between the third and the fourth quarter to reach 7.8 per cent, putting the rate at its lowest level in almost a year. Figures show that there were typically 2.5 million economically active citizens ...
Posted: 21 February 2013 16:54:02
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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Unemployment rate in Greece drops to 27%, young workers take the brunt

Unemployment rate in Greece drops to 27%, young workers take the brunt
The unemployment rate recorded in Greece in November 2012 grew to a worrying 27 per cent, as 1,350,181 jobseekers were out of work. This has increased moderately by 0.4 percentage points on a monthly basis, but the year-on-year rise is a ...
Posted: 15 February 2013 16:51:49
Filed under: Europe, Global Employment
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The future of the labor market in Spain is on the internet, Google says

The future of the labor market in Spain is on the internet, Google says
Javier Rodríguez Zapatero, managing director of Google Spain, says those jobs related to the internet and new technology are the future of the labor market.In the next five years, he says in an interview with newspaper La Información, ...
Posted: 12 February 2013 16:28:25
Filed under: Europe, IT Recruitment
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Czech industrial production employees receive 5.4% wage hike

Czech industrial production employees receive 5.4% wage hike
Industrial production workers in the Czech Republic benefited from a 5.4 per cent nominal wage hike over the year to December 2012. The typical employee took home CZK 29,136 in the month - 19 per cent above the quarter three average in the ...
Posted: 06 February 2013 16:51:46
Filed under: Europe
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British schools and universities must prepare students for workplace

British schools and universities must prepare students for workplace
Educational facilities across the UK need to make sure they are doing more to prepare students for the realities of the workplace rather than just supplying them with impractical knowledge, it has been claimed.It has long been a complaint of many ...
Posted: 31 January 2013 16:05:03
Filed under: Europe
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Companies must look to avoid the '2 year itch', says expert

Companies must look to avoid the '2 year itch', says expert
Companies across the globe should be doing more to make sure that they avoid the two year itch that many employees in higher and senior positions will be feeling, according to an employment expert.Dr Suzanne Edinger is lecturer in organisational ...
Posted: 31 January 2013 16:02:48
Filed under: Europe
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Spanish MEP's draft proposal on redundancy approved

Spanish MEP's draft proposal on redundancy approved
A draft proposal drawn up by an MEP in Spain has been approved, the European Union has said, despite the fact the initial reaction to it was not positive.Last August, the Daily Telegraph unveiled the proposals, which state that a company which ...
Posted: 16 January 2013 16:52:47
Filed under: Europe, Labor market legislation
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EU to look at ways to get young people back to work

EU to look at ways to get young people back to work
Parliamentarians in the European Union (EU) are set to debate ways in which to get more young people back to work, after the number who are unable to find jobs across the European continent rose to almost one in four.Youth unemployment has long been ...
Posted: 15 January 2013 15:12:37
Filed under: Europe
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Call for rehaul of math at school to boost education

Call for rehaul of math at school to boost education
Calls have been made for the government in the UK to undertake a rehaul of math in schools, after it was discovered by a survey that it is a subject rarely taken once it becomes non-compulsory for students.The Nuffield Foundation said that it was ...
Posted: 15 January 2013 15:04:29
Filed under: Europe
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New plans from France hoped to curb the notion of it being a poor place for business

New plans from France hoped to curb the notion of it being a poor place for business
Labor reforms in France are being put in place to curb levels of unemployment and make sure that the notoriously strict rules that govern the market for jobs in the European nation do not damage its reputation among firms and make it a place which ...
Posted: 14 January 2013 16:43:43
Filed under: Europe, Labor market legislation
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Greek govt plans ambitious move to create 62,000 jobs

Greek govt plans ambitious move to create 62,000 jobs
The Greek government is constantly having to battle an unemployment rate which is among the worst in the world, but the nation is planning to move forward with ambitious plans in 2013 which would see it focus on better ways in which it can create ...
Posted: 11 January 2013 16:58:52
Filed under: Europe
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37% of Europeans want to start their own business

37% of Europeans want to start their own business
It has been perhaps the most troubled economy in terms of financial failure over the past few years, but European residents who are looking for new places of work could actually help with job creation in the future, as more people than ever are now ...
Posted: 10 January 2013 16:36:07
Filed under: Europe
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More Brits now looking for jobs on Christmas Day

More Brits now looking for jobs on Christmas Day
It is traditionally a time to be spent with the family, over-indulging in food and presents together, but a new report has discovered that there were more Brits than ever before applying for new jobs on Christmas Day in 2012.Recruitment website CV ...
Posted: 08 January 2013 16:47:38
Filed under: Europe
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Eurozone unemployment rate hits a new high

Eurozone unemployment rate hits a new high
The number of people who are unable to find work or losing their job in countries which are members of the eurozone has again increased in late 2012, as the struggling economic area struggles once again to get back into the black.Earlier this week, ...
Posted: 08 January 2013 16:46:08
Filed under: Europe
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Globalization benefits seen in links between Germany and Greece

Globalization benefits seen in links between Germany and Greece
One of the major plus points of globalization is that having links for immigration between a range of nations can help to alleviate the problems of severe unemployment in one nation if another in its group, economic or otherwise, is showing ...
Posted: 07 January 2013 16:27:41
Filed under: Europe
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