Ohio: Need to match jobs with skills of region's workforce

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(From Dayton Business Journal) Solving the mismatch between available jobs in the Southwestern Ohio area and the skills of the region's workforce was a main concern for a panel of five regional leaders at the Regional Development Forum in West Chester. Keynote speaker L... More »

More Than Half of Large, Downsized U.S. Businesses Plan to Rebuild Their Workforces to Pre-Recession Levels by 2012

ASTD Staff

(From Business Wire) -- More than half (54 percent) of large U.S. businesses that reduced staff in the past 12 months plan to rebuild their workforces to pre-recession levels within two years, according to a study released today by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The Accenture H... More »

NYT: After Training, Still Scrambling for Employment

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(From the New York Times) In what was beginning to feel like a previous life, Israel Valle had earned $18 an hour as an executive assistant to a designer at a prominent fashion label. Now, he was jobless and struggling to find work. He decided to invest in upgrading his... More »