Sentences with phrase «job sectors as»

Seemingly, universities, employees, and companies are more focused on acquiring transferable skills relevant to many job sectors as opposed to former counterparts.

We've heard recently that green collar jobs in California are growing at a brisk clip, relatively speaking, and the job sector as a whole will continue to grow as more cleantech initiatives are put into place thanks to the Obama administration.

Not exact matches

When asked whether technology also had a negative impact, especially with regard to destroying jobs, Schmidt echoed Sandberg's early statements that technology doesn't just create jobs for coders but in other sectors as well.

There could even be job losses in the sector, as well as lower wages for bankers — bad news in a country where the financial sector was the largest single contributor to GDP in 2010, accounting for 195,000 skilled jobs.

Still, as AI replaces some jobs, it will create others and the government, private sector and individuals themselves all share responsibility to prepare for those new jobs, experts agree.

Similarly, in 2001's economic dip, women's job losses accounted for only 14 % of total layoffs, largely because women overwhelmingly work in recession - proof industries such as health care, education and the public sector.

Now that those positions are returning, men are going back to work as women continue to lose jobs in this sector.

That's because rising exports can increase jobs, as much as rising imports are killing them in traditional manufacturing sectors.

In recent years, many sectors experienced waves of mergers that gutted regional sales jobs as head offices centralized purchasing.

As usual there is plenty of backlash, with environmental deregulation and attempts to save jobs in energy sectors that may be superseded, to protect old habits and infrastructures from change.

«Our calculations have revealed that the 92 firms in our sample had median job growth during this period of negative 0.74 percent, compared to the 6 percent job - growth rate of U.S. private sector firms as a whole,» said the report.

It allowed her to woo NDP supporters who feared a slash - and - burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

Even as sales jobs decline in some older sectors, they are growing in newer ones.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

We urge both the incoming Trump Administration and the new Congress to work toward enhancing the design and construction sector's role as a major catalyst for job creation throughout the American economy.

She filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming that the school made its employment data look more promising by including jobs such as part - time waitressing, misleading potential students into thinking that their job prospects in the legal sector were more favorable than they actually were.

In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the only sector to show year - over-year job growth as of May was education and health services.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

In the nine northern states total private sector jobs as of 2015 remained 1.3 percent below their 2000 level, according to federal data.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

About 219,000 jobs like construction worker will be added in the goods - producing sector as well.

Both the private sector as well as federal, state and local governments have an important role to play in supporting high growth businesses and job creation.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

Job creation remained solid in the small business sector as owners reported a seasonally - adjusted average employment change per firm of 0.36 workers, one of the best readings in survey history.

Clean Energy Canada estimates that jobs would increase by 210,000 in the service sector, 35,000 in the resource sector, and 29,000 in clean energy and technology as carbon pollution decreases to meet B.C.'s commitments.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

Job creation gathered pace across the manufacturing sector in April, as highlighted by the strongest upturn in payroll numbers since December 2014.

Generally echoing the jingoism of the general media, financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Business Week have chosen to highlight the job growth in one sector - services.

If economic growth and job creation continue to slow, as they surely will, and the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, as it surely will, we have only the private sector to blame.

The silver lining as you have described so well, is the return to more regional economic activity and that, it would seem, ultimately brings back the manufacturing jobs lost to the overseas manufacturing sector.

They point to an article that you wrote in March, I think, of 2012 in Policy Options, where you basically said, dirty oil, the tar sands it's called, dirty oil and the future of our country, where you argue that the development of the, as you use the word, tar sands, it's become a political term, by the way, as you know, is basically not necessarily good for the country, in fact it takes jobs away in the manufacturing sector of Ontario.

While Trump cited «national security» as the impetus for the tariffs, he's been vowing since the campaign to use trade policy to restore jobs to the American manufacturing sector, which has suffered in recent decades.

Under Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau's plan, the PQ seeks to create jobs, avoid tax hikes, further exploit Quebec's natural resources and rein in government spending, such as pushing for «fair» agreements with physicians and public - sector workers during upcoming contract negotiations.

That will result in about 150,000 fewer construction and indirect jobs, such as in the real estate sector and support industries.

Trump's predecessors typically experienced higher staff turnover during their second year, as those with White House experience under their belts moved on to private - sector jobs with bigger paychecks.

Oil may be the dominant business sector, but Space City, as Houston has been nicknamed, is a hotbed for engineering jobs and has learned from history.

The net result could well be lower levels of hiring in strong areas of jobs growth, such as the leisure and hospitality sectors.

With tens of thousands of jobs in construction and financial services tied to the market, the Bank of Canada has specifically cited Toronto's inflating condo sector as a potential source of concern.

Meanwhile, last month's most significant job gains were in sectors that traditionally aren't high - paying, such as retail, which added 55,000 positions.

Germany's government is increasing pressure on its car makers to invest heavily in electric cars as well as battery production in Europe to safeguard jobs in Germany during a rapid transformation of the sector.

Tighter jobs and inflation: From a macro standpoint, the consumption tax hike appears to have lent firms additional pricing power, even as they face a looming skill shortage, particularly in the services sector.

As the largest sector of American manufacturing jobs, the food, beverage and consumer products industry urges the House.

The capex program — unveiled by outgoing Coles managing director Ian McLeod in Canberra on Wednesday — represents an acceleration of Coles's expansion plans and confirms the role of the retail sector as a significant source of jobs growth.

The U.S. food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry plays a unique role as the single largest U.S. manufacturing employment sector, with 2.1 million jobs in 30,000 communities across the country that deliver products vital to the wellbeing of people in our nation and around world.

The idea (to put it crudely) was to make fathers as unattractive to employers as mothers; to mount a real challenge to work - heavy work - place cultures (found mainly in the private sector); and to encourage mothers (who, with fathers playing a larger part at home, would feel less burdened) to have more children and to spend more years in higher level jobs.

After training as a psychologist and a number of early job changes, she finally settled into the child and family sector.

British politics is lambasted as only marginally less corrupt than that in West Africa, and British ex-politicians denounced for accepting appointments in the private sector that are indirectly linked to their previous ministerial jobs.

«New York State's economy continued to expand in March as we reached a new, all - time high private sector job count and remained at our lowest statewide unemployment rate since before the recession,» said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Director of the New York State Department of Labor's Division of Research and Statistics.

Governor Ambode said the state government on its part, recognizes the importance of the Agricultural sector in wealth and job creation as well as in growing the economy of the State and has thus made the sector one of its cardinal programmes.