So many
workers have a skill.»
The Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC) aims to ensure health
workers have the skills and knowledge to provide appropriate care at the most vulnerable period in a baby's life.
Train In order to ensure that librarians and library
workers have the skills needed to engage, educate and support teens, YALSA offers a wealth of continuing education activities, including e-learning and an annual teen services symposium.
Hard
workers have a skill set that is difficult to find — dedication and honesty.
Supervised a team of more than 20 administrative assistants and determined which of
those workers had the skills necessary to move up within the corporation.
IT workers have skill sets that can read like an alphabet soup list of acronyms, technologies and languages.
Not exact matches
The scramble for
skilled workers in the state
has intensified as the economy improves and training falls short of demand.
But the challenge for the U.S. is that many American
workers don't
have the
skills needed to work with robots.
Western Australia's
skilled worker shortage
has worsened in the home building market, despite activity easing.
Businesses expect prospective
workers to
have the necessary
skills to execute their responsibilities immediately, because the onus of training
has shifted from industry to higher education.
But if we didn't get the right people with the right
skills to move, we might solve the problem of restaurant
workers, but we wouldn't solve the problem of engineering for the oil sands.»
While American companies fear losing access to international talent, Canadian firms
have recognized an opportunity to recruit highly
skilled workers owing to the country's favourable position on immigration.
This is not a plan to «create jobs» for low and medium -
skilled workers in Leamington and London, who
have few options now that their plants are closed.
«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.»
They were concerned that its most highly
skilled workers, used to steady, reliable growth,
would not want to work for two young startup guys with a bold plan for disruption and no manufacturing experience.
Companies
would be allowed to bring employees to Australia for up to a year without applying for 457
skilled worker visas under a migration - rule revamp being considered by the government.
Other concerns included not
having enough
skilled workers, high health - care costs, labor turnover, taxes and regulation.
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.
This change
would be bad for small business owners who employ low -
skilled workers.
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.
Technology firms in hubs like Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley
have expressed the need for attracting more highly
skilled technology
workers from overseas.
Over the past decade, employment of
skilled technology
workers in BC
has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for
skilled workers.
BC's provincial government
has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for
skilled foreign
workers.
They
have no significant effect on the employment of high -
skilled workers,» Graetz and Michaels write.
In the meantime, the Great Recession and hiring downturn
have produced an oversupply of
skilled specialized
workers who are offering up their services outside of established organizations.
Another reason for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies
have become so specialized and lean that some attract high -
skilled workers and others mostly lower
skilled ones.
The Trump administration
has also taken steps to make it harder for American companies to hire
skilled foreign
workers through the H - 1B visa program.
However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not
have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of
skilled workers and unfilled jobs.
The Trump administration's rigid stance on immigration policy — in particular its tightening of restrictions around H - 1B visas for
skilled foreign
workers —
has created a unique opportunity for countries to lure away top technology talent that
would otherwise seek employment in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the U.S..
Perth - based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture
has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source
skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.
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.
The pact's intellectual property measures will protect CGI's proprietary technology, says company spokesman Lorne Gorber, while the enhanced mobility of
skilled labour
would allow it to more easily move
workers across the Atlantic.
Trump
has proposed a «merit - based» immigration policy that he's said will directly benefit tech companies like Facebook that already rely on being able to hire
skilled workers from other countries.
Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it
has historically provided good paying jobs for middle -
skill workers, or those folks who
have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.
Thanks in large part to that same mobile technology,
workers with marketable
skills have more freedom than ever before to strike their own balance between the demands of their job and the rest of their lives.
Legislators
have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly
skilled, foreign - born
workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts
have been largely ignored by lawmakers.
In Canada, for instance, a recently introduced Global
Skills program allows tech
workers to obtain work permits in just two weeks» time, compared with the roughly six months it
would take to obtain an H - 1B visa stateside.
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.»
The technology revolution occasioned by the Internet
had not taken off yet, along with it its chronic need for
skilled workers.
My concerns are that 1) As a
worker, it's hard to feel you're on stable footing when you
have to constantly string together contract work; and 2) What happens to the
workers without these specialized
skills?
Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform
would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly
skilled workers.
Infosys is the largest employer of
workers under the U.S. H1 - B visa program for
skilled workers, which
has been under fire as the Trump Administration moves to tighten a range of immigration laws.
Many veterans
have strong leadership and managerial
skills and were given more fiscal and people management responsibility at younger ages than civilian
workers.
Hawskworth warned limiting the migration of
skilled workers from the EEA to the UK could
have «particularly negative implications for longer term productivity and the UK's international competitiveness.»
She may also try to address the
skills gap of U.S.
workers by pushing for educational incentives, such as free tuition for some kinds of college education, as President Obama
has proposed.
What's more, two regulatory changes are approaching that
would reverse measures made by Obama to ease the application process for high -
skilled foreign
workers.
That's because you may already
have skilled workers in your pipeline, which means you don't
have to compete with other organizations.
Under the current system, high -
skilled workers who
have applied for green cards can wait decades for them to become available.
Uber uses technology to displace low -
skilled workers who may
have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.