Recently, Career Builder reported on four employment trends theyre seeing for 2012. They are as follows:
- Compensation Getting More Competitive for Skilled Positions
- Voluntary Turnover on the Rise
- Training Employed/Unemployed
- Employers Targeting Hispanic Workers, African American Workers and Women
Lets take a closer look at what these trends in employment mean for you as a job hunter.
- The Opportunity to Make More Money
Employers are starting to learn top employees will leave if they arent being paid enough. This is good news for you!
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The CIPD’s Employee Attitudes to Pay survey found that 53% of workers received a pay freeze or cut in 2011, a larger proportion than in any year since the survey was first carried out in 2008. However, one-third (33%) of employees said that their organisation did not explain the pay decision.
While those employees who did receive a pay rise in 2011 were found to be mostly satisfied with their pay, with a net satisfaction score of +56, satisfaction levels were considerably lower among those who were not told the reasons behind the rise.
The net satisfaction scores for staff who had their pay rises explained to them was +68, compared with +33 for those who were not given the information behind the rise.
Charles Cotton, rewards adviser at the CIPD, warned that there is “clearly a need” for improved communication of any positive news so that employees feel valued and understand what is important to their organisation.
“2012 looks like it will be another year of subdued pay rises for many in the private sector and pay freezes for most of those in the public sector,” Cotton explained. “W
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Pride of the Yankees? Hal Steinbrenner Sued by the IRS Printer friendlyOrder reprints of this content Posted by AccountingWEB in Tax, Watchdog, Income Tax, Bad Guys News on 01/03/2012 – 11:21
- IRS suing Hal Steinbrenner, managing general partner of New York Yankees
- Dispute over $670,494 tax refund Hal allegedly received by mistake in 2009
- Steinbrenner claims no wrongdoing
George Steinbrenner, the late owner of the New York Yankees who died in 2010, was as famous for his tirades against players and his off-season maneuverings as he was for the seven World Series championships his storied franchise won during his thirty-seven years of ownership. Readm Full Article…
The Pharmalot blog today reported that pharma and biotech downsizing, restructuring and outsourcing have resulted in 38 manufacturing facilities in 2011. While this may not sound like a lot given the ongoing tough economy, the post reports that 65 facilities were closed in 2010. According to some estimates, these closures have resulted in the loss of roughly 18,000 life sciences manufacturing jobs in the past two years. Sadly, pharmaceutical manufacturing, like almost all other manufacturing jobs in the US are being lost at an unprecedented rate.
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William McCracken took over as chief executive officer of CA Technologies close to two years ago and in that time has engineered a series of organizational changes and acquisitions aimed at improving the company’s perception among buyers and broadening its reach into new areas of technology and new customer segments. Among those acquisitions were the deals for authentication vendor Arcot (August 2010), application testing company Interactive TKO (ITKO; June 2011) and management-as-a-service provider Nimsoft (March 2010). As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series , McCracken spoke at the recent CA World conference to IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how the concept of ‘business service innovation’ is driving CA’s business.
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