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Shake Up Your Talent Acquisition — Kill The Rate Card To Improve ROI Nearly one-third of the world’s workforce is comprised of “external” or “independent” talent defined as workers that do not have traditional “employee” roles with an organization. As organizations shift from “hiring” employees to “buying” external talent, they must get smarter on how to work more strategically with …

Opportunities in Toronto’s job market A new report from LinkedIn Corp. says that Toronto has a surplus of workers with banking, legal and other financial-services-related skills. The social-networking website is seeking to identify gaps in Toronto’s labour market, and said the “most abundant skills” in the city are banking, legal advice, risk management, mortgage financing, trading, investing and accounting. Meanwhile, …

Canada’s unemployment rate drops to 6.3%, lowest since October 2008 The economy extended its winning streak in July, posting its eighth consecutive month of job growth while the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest point since the start of the financial crisis nearly nine years ago. The unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 6.3 per cent, a level not …

Seattle’s Cook Shortage Could Affect Your Next Restaurant Tab In the six weeks that Parker Butterworth spent as a line cook at stylish Capitol Hill restaurant Stateside, he lost count of how many crispy duck rolls—a signature dish—he made. But he was acutely aware of how little money he brought home. The 30-year-old political consultant entered the culinary arts program …

Feds offer solution to temporary worker shortage; 15,000 more visas available U.S. businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm because there aren’t enough qualified, temporary nonagricultural workers may be able to hire additional employees under the H-2B program that the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor submitted to the Federal Register Monday. To qualify for the 15,000 newly available visas, …

U.S. allows more seasonal workers The U.S. government cleared the way on Monday for thousands more foreign workers to enter the country under temporary seasonal visas, just as President Donald Trump declared this “Made In America” week and pledged to stand up for U.S. workers. Advocates of stricter limits on immigration criticized the additional visas, saying American workers should get …

America Needs More Technically Skilled Workers. The U.S. House Just Did Its Part Sometimes, when we aren’t looking, things can actually get done in Washington, DC.  In late June, the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act – a law critical to our education and workforce development programs.   Democratic Congressman …

US economy creates more jobs than expected in June A larger number of jobs than expected were created in the American economy in June, according to the latest official data. The Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that non-farm payrolls rose 220,000 in the month, better than the 179,000 that economists had expected and the quickest pace of hiring since February. …

A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring. Yet while Mr. Bridges had no work history, he …

Starting today, some Canadian companies can bring in foreign workers in as little as 2 weeks A federal program to allow Canadian companies to bring in foreign workers within two weeks officially started June 12. The plan, which was fleshed out in the federal budget, is part of Ottawa’s so-called Global Skills Strategy, an effort to help Canadian employers attract …