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Europe Crisis 2012: A Thought About Southern European Migration

I recently met a Spanish gentleman in Doha at a conference, who mentioned that he had moved to Qatar very recently. Unemployment is as high as it has ever been (approximately 23%) with fears escalating that Spain would require a bailout, similar to Greece, Portugal and Italy. Spanish bond yields have skyrocketed and there seems to be no immediate solution to fix the economic woes that plague the country. 

On further inspection, the overall unemployment rate maybe 23%, but the disjuncture is even greater for the fresh, out of school and 20 something “yuppies”. Unemployment for them is at 50%. With Southern Europe experiencing probably their roughest era in recent history with negative growths post recession, a massive migration maybe underway where Southern Europe may flock to countries like Germany and France, where the unemployment rates are only at 6%. These effects may find themselves trickling into the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, which may see a surge in Southern European expats in the upcoming years.

After grad job slump, big hiring is back at U.S. colleges

Hiring is back in a big way on many college campuses, one of several signs a recovery in the U.S. jobs market is gaining traction. After four years during which many students graduated to find no job and had only their loans to show for their studies, most college campuses are teeming with companies eager to hire.

A survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found 2012 hiring is expected to climb 10.2 percent, above a previous estimate of 9.5 percent.

Companies such as General Electric, Amazon, Apple and Barclays Global are looking for new staff, even if some firms remain below the pre-recession levels of new hiring. In another sign of the recovery, some first-time job seekers are receiving multiple offers.

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Mobile Jobseeking is Going Mainstream

The Milken Institute and Google Present: How the Ideas Economy is fueling the Global Economy

“To innovate or die” has become an unofficial mantra in the twenty-first century; a powerful economic and social force that can help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges, ranging from natural resource scarcity to economic growth and job creation. The Milken Institute and Google recently hosted a panel discussion with Aneesh Chopra, former U.S. CTO, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, writer for The Economist and author of Need, Speed, and Greed, and Tony Fratto, CNBC contributor.

Recent College Graduates Making 8-11% Less Than They Did 10 Years Ago

To the graduating class of 2012: All that money you or your parents have spent or borrowed to pay your tuition for the past few years? It’s not getting the same return on investment it did a decade ago.

According to the folks at the Economic Policy Institute, the average inflation-adjusted wage for male college graduates aged 23 to 29 was $21.68/hour. That’s an 11% over decline over the last ten years. And while wages for females in the same age and education group are only down 7.6% during that same time period, women still make significantly less on average ($18.80/hour).

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Is Cloud Computing a Job Creator or Destroyer?

Trying to operate in the old way — for example, hiring a large integrator to run your implementation — misses the point (and the cost benefits) of cloud, experienced users believe. One company was quoted $20 million to move to a software-as-a-service solution for HR because they had brought in a third party to do it for them, when another very large company had done the whole thing for less than a quarter of that. ‘A lot of people just don’t get it yet’.

Facebook Profiles Accurately Predict Job Performance

Do you want to know how that applicant you just interviewed will actually perform on the job? Check out her Facebook profile.

That’s the advice of a new study from the Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University. The researchers recruited a group of four Facebook-savvy human resources professionals and students to evaluate the Facebook profiles of 56 users. The four perused each of the profiles for about 10 minutes each before grading them according to the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).

Six months later, the researchers compared the evaluations of the 56 users’ work supervisors and found a strong correlation for traits including intellectual curiosity, agreeability and conscientiousness. The evalauations are, of course, subjective, but job seekers shouldn’t necessarily worry that they need to clean up their Facebook profile.

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Google’s Brain-Busting Job Interview

Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker reports on Google Inc.’s difficult questions for job applicants and shows you how Bloomberg’s top reporters fare when asked those questions. 

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