Sentences with phrase «skilled new workers»

Years ago, when her salespeople were a bit older and more uniform in age, motivational speakers were fitting for sales meetings, but now she invites guests to deliver presentations on how to accomplish tasks more efficiently and incorporate technology into their businesses — skills the new workers see as more central to their success.

Not exact matches

In 2006, he wrote A Whole New Mind: Why Right - Brainers Will Rule the Future, which outlined the skills workers need to stay employable in an increasingly outsourced and automated era.

Originally announced in December by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the changes to Canada's Federal Skilled Worker Program aim to improve the economic suitability of new Canadians.

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

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Changes to the country's immigration rules implemented by the federal government last year could help replenish the pool of workers available to employers, with a new emphasis on skills and youth.

«I think as soon as the [federal] budget is introduced,» says Kane, «we're going to have a whole set of new rules to help Canadian technology companies bring in highly skilled workers.»

But it's abundantly clear that the best protection a business can offer its under - trained or under - skilled workers is a path toward the «new» collar jobs of the future.

Elsewhere, new data released by the British Chambers of Commerce Thursday showed that exporter confidence has softened due to currency fluctuations and a shortage of skilled workers post-Brexit.

«Together, our countries have strengths that give North America a tremendous competitive advantage — the skills of our workers, manufacturing that's growing, and new sources of energy,» President Obama said at a press conference yesterday.

The issues are rooted in a compound of inevitable realities: the continuing disparity divide, a shortage of workers for growing occupations, a widening skills gap for job categories yet to exist, algorithms and automation that keep eating the world, and a new generation of workers desperate to find meaning in work.

While the majority of contractors say they will hire new employees in the coming months, almost all are having a difficult time hiring skilled workers.

In the rampaging, skills - hungry global economy of the 1990s, employee stock options have become the new manna — a widely accepted means of attracting and retaining key workers.

Employers should also ensure that new workers are given challenging enough tasks to showcase their skills and potential.

According to a new report from the Obama Administration, immigration reform will result in more highly skilled workers moving to the U.S., more businesses being launched, revenue being generated and more jobs being created.

The tech mogul has located the classrooms behind glass walls in high traffic areas so workers can «be inspired by seeing their peers pursue new skills.»

Short on the skilled technical workers it relies on to develop new ventures, its leaders are after Washington to quickly make changes.

Demand for specialist talents in the workforce is growing — but new workers emerge from college armed primarily with generalist skills.

About a third of employers say they are getting the workers they need, in part because they are engaged in the training process, communicating directly with schools and students to develop course work or to the let institutions know what skills new hires need.

The study also notes that high - skilled immigrants who enter the U.S. workforce sometimes indirectly open up new opportunities for U.S. workers.

And when the pace of technological change is outrunning the skills of workers, companies don't have time to continually swap out their labor force for new, skilled workers.

Retraining workers for new, or more highly skilled, jobs also allows a company to keep valuable institutional knowledge in - place.

Companies aren't only playing catch - up but «over-resourcing» for these positions, she said, because they know they will have to «upscale» certain workers and create new skill sets in the future.

A LIFE OF LEARNING How can today's workers harness new technological tools to continue learning new skills and stay on top of the rapid changes in today's economy?

In many occupations workers on company payrolls face the prospect that their existing skills will become obsolete, yet it is often not obvious how they can gain new ones.

As part of that transformation, it has initiated a massive effort to help its workers acquire new digital skills.

It could also create up to 31,000 jobs for skilled workers to build, operate and supply new clean - facilities.

There is new evidence that raising the minimum wage pushes business owners to replace low - skilled workers with automation.

Further, we must make a concerted effort to attract skilled workers into those industries that are currently suffering labour shortages, and encourage the migration of new immigrants to centres beyond Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

I travel to China pretty regularly — about 3 months of the year, and based on discussions with a few locals, a lot of new developments are unaffordable, even for highly skilled workers like factory managers or engineers.

They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.

An ever expanding upward spiral of innovation, entrepreneurship, production, exports, imports and exchange of goods and services has produced massive accretions of wealth, together with billions of new consumers, producers and increasingly skilled workers» Paul Singer

First there was the new top personal - income - tax rate on highly skilled and educated workers — now 33 per cent, up from 29 per cent.

The turbulent economy has created a mass of skilled, creative, displaced workers who are looking for new financing opportunities.

Evaluating the Risks and Rewards of Venture Capitalism The turbulent economy has created a mass of skilled, creative, displaced workers who are looking for new financing opportunities.

The budget also included a one - time $ 1 billion investment in the renamed Canada Workers Benefit, $ 2 billion over five years in a new Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program, $ 448 million over five years in the Canada Summer Jobs program.

Measures such as the Global Skills Strategy (GSS), which introduces a new two - week turnaround time for tech - worker permits, and an ambitious new approach to Work - Integrated - Learning placements, show the Government is listening to the concerns of Canadian CEOs facing talent shortages.

After extensive consultations with CEOs and HR representatives from Canada's fastest - growing domestic scale - ups, the Government of Canada has launched a new dedicated service channel that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes for high - growth companies to attract, process and employ highly - skilled workers from outside of Canada.

Hiring 50,000 skilled workers is no easy task, and Amazon wants to make sure its new headquarters is in an area with a readily available pool of talent.

Manufacturing companies are automating their processes, and new workers will have to certified in the technical skills necessary to operate in these highly automated factories.

Labour productivity also depends on the workers» own attributes: innate abilities, level of formal education and training, skills acquired on the job, a capacity to learn new tasks, etc..

First, disparities in skills or in geographic location may make for a bad fit between displaced workers and new jobs.

Promotions are based on seniority, not merit, so there is little incentive for workers to upgrade their skills or learn new technologies.

It could mean reducing occupational licensure requirements, and educational reforms that make it easier for workers to acquire new skills through alternative training programs.

That is good news — but now we have a new set of stories, in which American employers say they can't find American low - skill workers who are worth hiring.

The innovative automation system does not require highly skilled workers or engineers to teach it new tasks.

Labor's $ 30 million plan is a co-investment that the party says will assist the company to buy new equipment and up - skill workers to help expand its markets.

A new generation of lightweight, assistive robots looks to provide small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with new options to improve their competitiveness and meet the challenges of high costs and a shortage of skilled workers.

This summer, hundreds of CCSD teachers are taking advantage of training opportunities offered by CCSD; school nutrition workers have been busy learning new skills and ideas for tastier lunchroom fare; more than 400 school buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school campuses.

The potential benefits of the Unicef baby friendly initiative of accrediting health facilities are considerable and now evidence based.6 There are also indications that the initiative has led to an arrest in the worldwide decline in breast feeding.7 Training of health workers is an essential prerequisite to reducing the harmful effects of health services, but pretraining should be carried out systematically and periodically so that new workers are included, and there should be an emphasis on the development of advocacy skills.