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Temporary Workers Miss Out On Vital Training

The Horizons Tracker

Receiving training and development is vital for any employee to advance their career. Research from UmeĆ„ University highlights how temporary workers are often frozen out of any training opportunities provided by their employer, however. Training gap. ” Union support. ” Union support.

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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it’s perhaps no surprise that a new report from the London School of Economics shows that job-based training is no different. “The total number of days trained per trainee in the UK has fallen by 18% from 7.8 in 2011 to 6.4

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The Support That Helps Refugees Find Work

The Horizons Tracker

The challenges refugees face in the labor market are well known, whether due to a lack of connections, an unfamiliarity with how labor markets work, or the unrecognized status of their credentials. Between them, these countries received nearly 2 million asylum applications between 2015 and 2018.

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Fiona Dawson: ā€œMy imperative is around breaking down barriers for peopleā€

Chartered Management Institute

Fiona calls that period ā€œprobably one of the longest trainings in the worldā€. Mars gave Fiona a deep knowledge of everything from sales and marketing to general management, and she finally became global president of food, multisales and global customers at the company in 2015. Iā€™ve long admired the work within CMI.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire.

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John Chambers: Connecting the Dots

Leading Blog

S INCE STEPPING DOWN as CEO of Cisco in 2015, John Chambers founded the venture capital firm JC2 Ventures specializing in startups. When you compete against a market transition, you learn how to see around corners.ā€ If the problem is market inflicted, donā€™t dramatically change your strategy.ā€

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Solving for the Growing Workforce ā€œDonut Holeā€

Lead Change Blog

In my February 2015 piece, ā€œ 5 Common Conditions of Career Reinvention ,ā€ I cite similar findings from a Stanford Longevity Study. Somehow, this problem seems ripe for a solution, and I canā€™t help but be reminded of the situation I faced nearly 20 years ago when I founded my last company, an online advertising and marketing agency.