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Omar Yaqub

Contract work on rise in Canada - 0 views

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work canada contract

shared by Omar Yaqub on 29 Nov 10 - Cached
  • contract work has outpaced all other forms of temporary employment over the past decade
  • 52% of all temporary jobs
  • concentrated in the health, education and public administration fields
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  • paid about 14% less each hour
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Reports || EEDC 2008 annual report - 0 views

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  • Omar Yaqub on 01 Dec 10
     
    Workforce DevelopmentThe shortage of skilled workers was unquestionably the mostimportant challenge faced by Edmonton industry in 2008. Inits third year, EEDC's Edmonton Workforce Connection (EWC)program continued in conjunction with industry and governmentto address regional labour challenges. EWC worked with industrystakeholders, immigrant-serving agencies, the City of Edmonton,educational institutions and Alberta Employment and Immigrationto launch the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council.This organization was created to help address the underemploymentof skilled immigrants in the region.EWC also provided new opportunities for businesses and workersto connect. These included developing the Employers of Choicewebsite to highlight local employers, creating a link to WOWJobs that enabled companies to advertise job opportunities, andconnecting Edmonton employers to university career centresacross Canada.EWC has a new name - EEDC's Workforce Development Program- and new challenges. The focus of the program will be optimizingthe labour force to address a growing skills shortage that isdriven by an aging population, competition, innovation and newtechnologies. Alberta employers are reassessing their needs andthe future of their businesses in light of the economic slowdown.EEDC will continue to need blue and white-collar workers who areemployed to their maximum capacity to rebuild the economy. Productivity & InnovationIn 2008, EEDC made a strategic decision to be a leader inpromoting greater productivity through innovation in the Edmontonregion.In collaboration with the province and cities across Alberta, EEDChosted Innovative Manufacturing Works tours in Edmontonin October 2008. Thirty industry representatives visited threeEdmonton-area manufacturers, which are focused on continuallyrefining their processes to achieve peak efficiency. Events such asthese improve public awareness of the capability of local industryand encourage other firms to adopt be
Omar Yaqub

Why Are Some Cities Happier Than Others? | www.theatlantic.com | Readability - 0 views

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happiness

shared by Omar Yaqub on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • My own research has documented the connection between a large-scale presence of the creative class of workers -- people who work in science and technology; business and management; arts, culture and entertainment; medicine and education -- and the prosperity of cities. But it's about more than prosperity. Once a certain threshold of income is met, our research finds, the work people do plays a substantial role in their happiness, over and above the effect of income at the national6, state7, and city8 levels. Our findings here reinforce and confirm this conclusion. There is a substantial positive correlation between city happiness and the share of creative class jobs (.5) and a significant negative one between well-being and the share of working class jobs (-.4).
  • composition of city job markets plays a considerable role in our sense of well-being as well.
  • cities with more blue-collar economies have been among the hardest hit by the economic crisis. Unemployment is high, incomes are lower.  Workers in these kinds of jobs have faced much greater trouble finding new jobs (the unemployment rate for production workers is 10 percent; for construction workers it tops 20 percent). Not only do these workers have skills and incomes which are tied to their specific jobs, many in these areas are trapped in underwater homes and unable to relocate to areas with more work and greater opportunity:  Hardly a recipe for happiness
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  • Americans are divided by their sense of happiness and well-being as well. Along with everything else that polarizes us, America increasingly faces an increasingly unequal geography of class and happiness.
Omar Yaqub

Give and Take: Corporate Volunteering - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Employees who volunteer have a better attitude towards their normal work. This is a documented fact that’s hard to deny. For example, they’re more likely to actually go to work, even if they have an excuse not to.
  • Employees who volunteer have a stronger commitment to the company. Also a well-researched fact. For example, they’re more likely to agree that they’re “proud to tell [their] friends what organization [they] work for.”
  • Employees who volunteer might be dodging their regular commitments. If they’re not interested in work, they might be volunteering in order to get away from it. Follow up with volunteers, and make sure that they’re still engaged in their regular jobs.
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  • Employees who volunteer outside of the company program might feel like their contributions aren’t appreciated. Develop programs that recognize and reward any volunteering, whether it’s through the company or through another organization.
Omar Yaqub

Raising the dropout age won't work - - Macleans OnCampus - 0 views

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education edmonton

shared by Omar Yaqub on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Despite a country-wide boost in high school graduation rates over the past 20 years, the dropout rate in Alberta remains the third highest in the country at 10.4 per cent, ahead of Manitoba at 11.4 per cent and Quebec at 11.7 per cent.
  • Like Ontario and most provinces across the country, Alberta has also expanded their work experience programs to try and keep high school students interested in working in manufacturing or trades from dropping out. Recognizing that education isn’t one-size-fits all is definitely a step in the right direction towards getting students to value their education. However, thinking that requiring students by law will simply make everything fall into place when it comes to raising the high school graduation rate is simply foolish.
  • As spokeswoman for Alberta Education, Carolyn Stuparyk, told the Globe and Mail, a large part of the challenge in keeping Alberta students in school is combating the notion that taking a high paying physical labour job in a still relatively strong economy is more exciting than sitting in a classroom.
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  • With that in mind, even if raising the dropout age to 17 does lower the dropout rate in the 16 to 17 age group, its not much of an accomplishment if you’ve raised those statistics by simply forcing students to stay an extra year. I doubt that students will be convinced that taking that $25 an hour job on the oil sands instead of gaining a high school education may not be the best decision another year down the line because someone legislated they should
Omar Yaqub

Allison Pond: National Rollout - Immigrants' Canada - 0 views

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work immigrants

shared by Omar Yaqub on 28 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • re-casting the speed-dating model to help skilled newcomers connect with potential employers and circumvent the usual barriers that accompany a resume filled with foreign work experience and education.
  • event is expected to include more than 100 newcomers looking for work in Canada and a similar number of executives and managers from 65 different companies. With four different rooms devoted to information technology, sales and marketing, engineering and finance
  • he biggest barrier to getting work in their field is their need to connect with people in their profession
Omar Yaqub

Working Smarter in a Tough Economy: Workplace Strategies | Area Development Online - 0 views

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work trends

shared by Omar Yaqub on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Working Smarter in a Tough Economy: Workplace Strategies Particularly during a downturn, business enterprises can become more agile and competitive by rethinking the workplace model
Omar Yaqub

http://www.employment.alberta.ca/documents/RRM/RRM-BI-mature-workers.pdf - 0 views

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employment alberta seniors

shared by Omar Yaqub on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Omar Yaqub on 27 Apr 11
     
    With the workforce aging in Alberta and across Canada, labour force participation by mature workers is attracting increased attention. As people live longer, healthier lives, many wish to stay active in the workforce or to volunteer in their communities. Mature workers have developed valuable skills and abilities and a lifetime of knowledge and work experience.  At issue is not only the need for increased labour supply, but how to minimize the loss of experience, corporate memory, leadership and mentorship that can occur when people retire. Without taking action now to address the impacts of an aging workforce, there will be a significant decline in Alberta's labour supply. In 2006, the Government of Alberta acknowledged the need to increase the labour force participation of mature workers in its comprehensive labour force strategy, Building and Educating Tomorrow's Workforce (BETW). Between October 2007 and February 2008 an online public consultation on Alberta's aging workforce gathered input from Albertans on their priorities, issues and experience with an aging workforce. Following this, government has developed an action plan to support increased labour force participation of mature workers. The action plan is based on the following assumptions: * With the aging population, increasing mature worker labour force participationmay be important for improving productivity and encouraging economic growth.* Mature workers have identifiable work-related needs, such as the need forincreased flexibility, which are not being fully addressed. * Market forces and employer practices will have a positive influence on increasingthe workforce participation of mature workers; however, policy changes may be necessary to remove some barriers and to sustain strong labour market participation. Engaging the Mature Worker: An Action Plan for Alberta identifies four overarching goals to support mature workers in the labour force.
Omar Yaqub

Operational Bulletin 279-D (revised) - September 27, 2012 - 0 views

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work canada alberta

shared by Omar Yaqub on 12 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Omar Yaqub on 12 Dec 12
     
    "to clarify for employers that they may use the Labour Market Opinion (LMO) or Accelerated Labour Market Opinion (A‑LMO) process rather than the Alberta Occupation-Specific Pilot. If an employer uses the LMO or A‑LMO process, the foreign national(s) should be issued an employer-specific Work Permit (WP)."
Omar Yaqub

Oilsands expansion ramps up demand for engineers - 0 views

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work immigrants alberta engineers

shared by Omar Yaqub on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The most in-demand engineering positions include civil, mechanical and electrical with expertise in areas such as pipe design, instrumentation and project management.
  • money is not the biggest factor when experienced engineers change employers
  • It is rarely money, the most recent poll found a pleasant work environment. That includes an innovative company the offers both challenges and job security, with a positive image where people are proud to work,” said Winterfield.
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  • “We have more than 450 employees who have had 30-plus year careers with us and who are still employed with us. Many of Syncrude’s senior employees are pioneers in the oilsands industry, and they have invaluable knowledge to share, and this helps attract young professionals who are starting out in their careers,” she said.
Omar Yaqub

CICIC > Credential Assessment Services - 0 views

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trades work alberta

shared by Omar Yaqub on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • All agencies and organizations listed below adhere to the General Guiding Principles for Good Practice in the Assessment of Foreign Credentials and the Recommendation on Criteria and Procedures for the Assessment of Foreign Qualifications adopted under the 1997 Lisbon Recognition Convention. Note that their assessments are not necessarily appropriate or applicable to all situations. If you are planning to study in Canada, consult our Fact Sheet #1 "Information for students educated abroad applying for admission to Canadian universities and colleges" at http://www.cicic.ca/392/admission-to-universities-and-colleges.canada. If you intend to work in a regulated occupation, you will first need to contact the pertinent regulatory body (see our occupational profiles at http://www.cicic.ca/403/occupational-profiles-for-selected-trades-and-professions.canada) for detailed instructions on the procedure to follow (Note: even if you are already licensed to practice a regulated occupation in Canada, employers may request that you provide them with a formal assessment of your academic credentials; if that is the case, please contact one of the services listed below).
  • Alberta International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) Foreign Qualifications Recognition (FQR) Unit Immigration Division Alberta Employment and Immigration 9th Floor, 108 Street Building 9942 - 108 Street Edmonton, Alberta  T5K 2J5 Canada Tel.: +1 780 427-2655 Toll-free in Alberta: 310-0000 ask for 427-2655 Fax: +1 780 422-9734 Web site: http://employment.alberta.ca/Immigration/4512.html
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language

shared by Omar Yaqub on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • Intermediate Proficiency (Stage II - CLB Levels 5-8) represents the range of abilities which enable a learner to participate more fully in social, educational, and work-related settings. The contexts in which English is used are less familiar and predictable and the proficiencies demonstrated by learners enable them to function more independently. Competencies acquired in this stage may enable a learner to move beyond the ESL classroom into new opportunities. Many learners, at the end of Stage II, are ready for post-secondary academic programs.
  • Basic Proficiency (Stage I - CLB Levels 1-4) is the range of abilities needed to communicate in common and predictable settings to meet basic needs and to carry out everyday activities. A curriculum aligned to the Benchmarks and targeting the language proficiencies of stage 1 learners would focus on topics of immediate personal relevance.
  • Omar Yaqub on 10 May 12
     
    Intermediate Proficiency (Stage II - CLB Levels 5-8) represents the range of abilities which enable a learner to participate more fully in social, educational, and work-related settings. The contexts in which English is used are less familiar and predictable and the proficiencies demonstrated by learners enable them to function more independently. Competencies acquired in this stage may enable a learner to move beyond the ESL classroom into new opportunities. Many learners, at the end of Stage II, are ready for post-secondary academic programs.
Omar Yaqub

Working temporarily in Canada - 0 views

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Work immigrants recruiting

shared by Omar Yaqub on 17 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Certain categories of workers have their own requirements. See: Information technology workers Live-in caregivers Business people
  • Omar Yaqub on 17 Feb 12
     
    Certain categories of workers have their own requirements. See: Information technology workers Live-in caregivers Business people
Omar Yaqub

Australia - The Keys to Australia's Immigration Success - Canada immigration news - 0 views

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work australia immigration canada

shared by Omar Yaqub on 12 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Australia and Canada faced similar challenges in reaping the benefits of newcomers, but experts say today's immigrants to the country Down Under are in faster, employed better and more quickly, and are making more money than those coming into Canada.
  • within just two years of bringing in major changes in 1999, Australia saw an "immediate surge of outcomes" for immigrants, and the immigration-related economic benefits for the country.
  • Canada's backlog of nearly 1 million applicants is another challenge, and, today, successful economic migrants to Australia are admitted within three months if they apply off-shore, and three weeks if they are already in Australia
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  • modify the changes to the way you select economic applicants in the context of improving employment incomes,
  • Canada's immigration policies have increasingly focused on short-term labour market needs at the expense of longer term nation-building.
  • as provinces have been given more control over their immigrant intake, a national framework has fallen by the wayside
  • there is a lack of alignment in the immigration program between skills selection and labour market needs
  • Canadian Construction Association and Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, the coalition is calling on the government to invest money in colleges—and to fix the immigration system.
  • by 2012, immigration will account for all labour force growth in Canada, and that two-thirds of the available jobs will require post-secondary education.
  • We need an overhaul to get more skilled trades into Canada quickly," Mr. Charette said. "When you look at Australia, they can get in in three to four days."
  • Success Key to Decision
  • she also said the recent changes brought in by the Conservative government, which give the immigration minister full discretion over how many and what type of immigrants get in, "makes sense." With data that showed economic migrants to Australia were struggling to find work and make a decent wage, the government of the day brought in mandatory language testing and credential assessment for economic migrants before they immigrate.
  • In Canada, however, English-speaking migration has disappeared, she said, adding that no one has yet been able to explain why.
  • Australia also made it easier for international students to apply for permanent status and, by 2005, 52 per cent had applied to stay. Not only do these students pay high costs for their education, they "overwhelmingly qualified for positions," Ms. Hawthorne said.
  • Canada's policies have been focused on increasing temporary workers to meet labour needs, Ms. Hawthorne warned not enough attention has been paid to economic principal applicants in Canada's immigration system.
  • And that's what's keeping people who are the permanent kind," she said. "This is not removing migration as a source of country building...but you're picking people whose immediate work outcome is much more likely to be positive, and they're equally likely to be diverse, and they'll have better longer-term outcomes, as will their children."
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The usual suspects :: Dish Weekly :: VUE Weekly - 0 views

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work alberta

shared by Omar Yaqub on 21 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • I haven't changed staff in almost eight months. That's incredible actually and I sit back in wonder of it. In this industry, that's just amazing.
  • The food industry is notorious for having constant turnover of people and the fact that we're sitting here saying we've got staff willing to stick around is a testament to how you're running your business. It's not an illustrious career and, to be honest, you can't pay everybody behind the bar a lifetime salary. They're there because they want to be there. They enjoy the environment and they enjoy the work and they're keen on coffee and what you're working on.
  • when we do a hire, you're café staff for three months—you don't get to touch, you don't even get to look at the espresso machine. It takes time to develop. There's skill involved to making a good cup of coffee, there's a lot of skill involved.
Omar Yaqub

HRSDC Assessment for Labour Market Opinion - 0 views

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work lmo

shared by Omar Yaqub on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Labour Market Opinion Assessment Criteria You will find below, a description of the factors that Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)/Service Canada takes into consideration when assessing an application for a Labour Market Opinion (LMO) to hire a temporary foreign worker. It is important that you read the following pages that describe the conditions you must meet in order to receive a positive or neutral LMO. Applications that are filled incorrectly will delay processing times. When assessing a job offer, HRSDC/Service Canada considers primarily: the occupation that the foreign worker will be employed in; the wages and working conditions offered; the employer's advertisement and recruitment efforts; the labour market benefits related to the entry of the foreign worker; the consultations, if any, with the appropriate union; and whether the entry of the foreign worker is likely to affect the settlement of a labour dispute.
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Maytree » Recommendations for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program - 0 views

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policy immigration work

shared by Omar Yaqub on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Recommendation #1: Eliminate the Low Skill Pilot Project for temporary foreign workers.
  • increase the pool of workers to fill low-skilled jobs on an ongoing basis, employers should make these jobs more attractive to people already in Canada, whether immigrants or Canadian born. In addition, Citizenship and Immigration Canada should increase family class and refugee admissions to provide more labour force participants who, as permanent residents, have rights and access to services to prevent exploitation. Increasing points in the Federal Skilled Worker Program for demand occupations, the trades, and validated job offers will also broaden the pool of workers
  • Recommendation #2: Monitor recruitment and working conditions of temporary foreign workers.
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  • workplace safety and employment standards come under provincial jurisdiction, temporary foreign workers are a federal responsibility. The federal government should therefore provide leadership and support to provinces to help them monitor and enforce the working conditions of temporary foreign workers
  • egulate recruitment agencies
  • #3: Strengthen the “labour market opinion” process.
  • Implement a monitoring system to follow up on employers who were issued positive labour market opinions to ensure the proper treatment of temporary workers and others in the workplace.
  • Between 2005 and 2008 there was a 5.7% decline in permanent residents (from 262,241 in 2005 to 247,202 in 2008) and a 37.6% increase in temporary entrants (190,724 students and temporary workers entered Canada in 2005, and 272,520 entered in 2008).
  • Experience in other countries has demonstrated that similar “temporary guest worker” programs have resulted in the creation of an undocumented underclass and its accompanying difficulties.
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http://www.campusphilly.org/annual_meeting/fromstudenttoresident.pdf - 0 views

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work education

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  • Omar Yaqub on 05 Jan 11
     
     Campus Philly is a nonprofit organization that fuels economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region.
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Andy Kessler: Is Your Job an Endangered Species? - WSJ.com - 0 views

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work trends competitiveness

shared by Omar Yaqub on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Technology is eating jobs—and not just obvious ones like toll takers and phone operators. Lawyers and doctors are at risk as well.
  • Forget blue-collar and white- collar. There are two types of workers in our economy: creators and servers. Creators are the ones driving productivity—writing code, designing chips, creating drugs, running search engines. Servers, on the other hand, service these creators (and other servers) by building homes, providing food, offering legal advice, and working at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
  • Many servers will be replaced by machines, by computers and by changes in how business operates. It's no coincidence that Google announced it plans to hire 6,000 workers in 2011.
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  • Sloppers are those that move things—from one side of a store or factory to another. Amazon is displacing thousands of retail workers. DMV employees and so many other government workers move information from one side of a counter to another without adding any value. Such sloppers are easy to purge with clever code.
  • Sponges are those who earned their jobs by passing a test meant to limit supply. According to this newspaper, 23% of U.S. workers now need a state license.
  • Supersloppers mark up prices based on some marketing or branding gimmick, not true economic value.
  • Slimers are those that work in finance and on Wall Street. They provide the grease that lubricates the gears of the economy.
  • Thieves have a government mandate to make good money and a franchise that could disappear with the stroke of a pen.
  • Like it or not, we are at the beginning of a decades-long trend. Beyond the demise of toll takers and stock traders, watch enrollment dwindle in law schools and medical schools. Watch the divergence in stock performance between companies that actually create and those that are in transition—just look at Apple, Netflix and Google over the last five years as compared to retailers and media.
  • this economy is incredibly dynamic, and there is no quick fix for job creation when so much technology-driven job destruction is taking place. Fortunately, history shows that labor-saving machines haven't decreased overall employment even when they have made certain jobs obsolete. Ultimately the economic growth created by new jobs always overwhelms the drag from jobs destroyed—if policy makers let it happen.
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  • WiganPlus is an exciting new scheme that rewards people who live and work within Wigan for continuing to shop in our local town centre. With exclusive promotions from Arriva on local bus travel to Wigan town centre and exciting offers and incentives from the towns favourite retailers, WiganPlus makes local loyalty more rewarding. 
  • Omar Yaqub on 28 Feb 11
     
    Incentive to promote local business, shopping, and cooperation WiganPlus is an exciting new scheme that rewards people who live and work within Wigan for continuing to shop in our local town centre. With exclusive promotions from Arriva on local bus travel to Wigan town centre and exciting offers and incentives from the towns favourite retailers, WiganPlus makes local loyalty more rewarding.
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