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Skills Shortage
a shortfall in the number of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs currently available. A skills shortage may be caused by a lack of education and vocational...
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IDC: European IT skills shortage will increase th through 2002, IDC says.
M2 PRESSWIRE-19 October 1999-IDC: European IT skills shortage will increase through 2002, IDC says C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:181099 * Internetworking Skills Shortage Is Most Acute London -- One of the hottest topics of discussion in the Western European...
Tags: International Data Corp., Strategy
Research articles 1999-10-19
UK lacks skills to compete in ecommerce sector; Silicon.com report warns of massive skills shortage and higher wages because of Internet goldrush.
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 March 2000-SILICON.COM: UK lacks skills to compete in ecommerce sector; Silicon.com report warns of massive skills shortage and higher wages because of Internet goldrush C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02032000 Findings of a survey launched today by Silicon.com, the...
Tags: Benefits, e-business, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, MARKETING, salary, Silicon.com, survey
Research articles 2000-03-02
Asia skills shortage could hit growth: ADB
MANILA AFP — Asia is facing a serious skills shortage that could hamper the region's economic growth and push for modernisation, the Asian Development Bank said in its annual outlook report released Wednesday. The Manila-based ADB said the shortage was widespread and had been partly driven by skilled workers...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Asia, worker
Research articles 2008-04-01
UK suffering from IT skills shortage shows survey - Industry Trend or Event
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-3 March 2000-UK suffering from IT skills shortage shows survey C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com A survey conducted by Silicon.com has found that there exists in the UK a massive IT skills shortage as entrepreneurs and other companies attempt to break into the Internet market. ...
Tags: INTERNET, MARKETING, salary, Silicon.com, Strategy, survey, U.K.
Research articles 2000-03-03
Aprentices offer way out of skills shortage.
Fidelity FundsNetwork believes apprenticeships is key to skills shortage in advice sector.. Girlie Garduce Apprenticeships could be the answer to the skills shortage in the independent advice sector, according to Fidelity FundsNetwork. To support bringing new talent into the industry, FundsNetwork has...
Tags: Fidelity Investments, FINANCE, Investment, Strategy
Research articles 2008-04-10
Skills shortage digs in at Qld mines.(Brief Article)
Apr 10, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Queensland's booming coal industry is facing a major shortage of skilled labour. Col Joy Training Services, which provides safety training for workers, is struggling to stop rivals from poaching its staff. G&S Engineering...
Tags: Komatsu Ltd.
Research articles 2005-04-10
Major new survey counts cost of language skills shortage.
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 May 2006-CILT: Major new survey counts cost of language skills shortageC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16052006 What is the lack of language skills costing business and the economy? Studies show that many businesses in the UK and beyond know they...
Tags: European Commission, MARKETING, SMB/SME, Strategy, survey
Research articles 2006-05-16
The Open University reacts to UKIT skills shortage with "Computing and Its Practice" - a novel IT solution for employees and employers alike.
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 November 2006-OPEN UNIVERSITY: The Open University reacts to UKIT skills shortage with "Computing and Its Practice" - a novel IT solution for employees and employers alikeC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14112006 While demand for skilled IT workers has continued to...
Tags: CAREER, Computing, Open University, Strategy
Research articles 2006-11-15
Lack of investment behind skills shortage
Lack of investment in vocational education and training VET over the past 11 years is the primary cause of the severe skills shortages impacting on the economy, according to the Australian Industry Group. AIG says Australia will need 270,000 more skilled workers over the next 10 years. Most will...
Tags: Australia, education, FINANCE, Investment, OECD
Research articles 2007-11-01
Employers innovate as skills shortage is tipped to last two more years.
Byline: Nabila Ahmed Jun 07, 2007 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- As predictions of the skills shortage continuing until 2009 appear, Australian companies are looking at innovative ways of retaining staff. The ANZ Banking Group has flexible hours, childcare and additional training....
Tags: Leadership, National Australia Bank
Research articles 2007-06-07
BID TO OVERCOME SKILLS SHORTAGE IN ICT INDUSTRY.(Government Activity)
A fresh initiative for overcoming the skills shortage in Europe's information and communication technologies ICT industry was unveiled on 7 November. The scheme is being promoted by the Career-Space (1) consortium, which comprises 11 ICT enterprises (2) and EICTA, which represents Europe's ICT industry, in partnership...
Tags: Europe, European Commission, Strategy
Research articles 2000-11-11
Giants in move to solve chronic skills shortage
THE skills shortage in Scotland is now so acute that five of Edinburgh's largest companies - including Royal Bank of Scotland and BT - have joined forces to launch a unique welfare-into-work initiative. The move comes as Wendy Alexander, the enterprise minister, prepares to unveil Scottish Enterprise's...
Tags: Scottish Enterprise
Research articles 2001-01-28
Model scheme gets (pounds) 1m to tackle skills shortage
A MODEL welfare-into-work initiative that aims to tackle Scotland's chronic skills shortage head on by training the long-term unemployed has secured more than pounds 1 million of funding and is now up and running. The Pool Charitable Trust is backed by several of Edinburgh's largest employers, including...
Tags: Scottish Enterprise
Research articles 2001-08-05
Skills shortage steals growth.
Byline: Jo Clarke Feb 20, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Increasing raw materials costs and inflation were not enough to stop OneSteel from reporting a 17 increase in half-year profit. The results released on 20 February 2007 showed strong...
Tags: OneSteel Ltd.
Research articles 2007-02-20
Addressing skills shortage is greatest challenge, says Dauvin
The most important issue facing the semiconductor industry today and in the future is the skills shortage, according to Jean-Philippe Dauvin, group vice-president and chief economist, STMicroelectronics. He said: "I am convinced that the workforce will be the bottleneck of the industry." But he sees the situation improving....
Tags: STMicroelectronics N.V.
Research articles 2000-03-06
Labor shortage or skills shortage?
America's labor shortage is more a shortage of skills than of people, says the chief number cruncher for the U.S. Department of Labor. Average wages for a college graduate adjusted for inflation have risen 16 percent since 1979, but have dropped 8 percent for high...
Tags: FINANCE, job
Research articles 2000-12-01
Skills crunch brings senior executives back on line.
British businesses will face a critical skills shortage in the next ten years unless they tap into the experience of the UK's half-million self-employed senior executives, according to research by Senate, a new search and recruit service. British businesses will face a critical skills shortage in the next...
Tags: INTERNET, U.K., U.S. Senate
Research articles 1999-04-01
Addressing Skills Shortages in the Workplace
Attracting and retaining key skills and experiences is critical to sustaining a value added culture. However, the high demand for present and future talent may culminate in a skills shortage in your organisation. Development and execution of an organisational-wide strategy to address such a challenge depends on creative management. The...
Tags: Talent, Deloitte LLP, Culture, Workplace, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2006-03-28
Skills squeeze on tax.
Byline: Andrew Colley Aug 07, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Taxation Office is experiencing a possible "skills squeeze" in its $A450m technology program. It plans to migrate to a new mainframe by December 2007. The delay has...
Tags: Australian Taxation Office, HARDWARE, Mainframes, Servers, tax
Research articles 2006-08-07
Fighting the war against the skills shortage.
Manufacturers and Labor Department join torces According to a recent study by the American Management Association AMA, 41.7% of manufacturing job applicants have basic skill deficiencies and over 38% of all job applicants lack the necessary reading, writing, and math skills to do...
Tags: American Management Association, CAREER, job, Manufacturing, training, worker
Research articles 2000-11-01
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