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College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • By some measures, nearly half of employed college graduates are in jobs that don't traditionally require a college degree.
  • companies needed hundreds of thousands of skilled workers to develop, build and install high-tech systems
  • ew technologies may eventually revive demand for advanced skills, he added, but an economic recovery alone won't be sufficient.
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  • demand for such skills has fallen in recent years, even as young people continued to flock to programs that taught them.
  • Brian Hackett, who graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey in 2010 with a political-science degree, is among those who haven't found full-time work.
  • too few workers with the right set of skills, particularly in high-end manufacturing and certain trades.
  • The subsequent housing boom helped mask the problem by creating artificially high demand for workers of all kinds, but only temporarily.
  • College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
    • tsweetholp
      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      All is not lost -at least there is some good news.
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      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
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More Americans quit jobs, a sign of confidence - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
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      tsweetholp on 13 Jun 13
       
      JOLTS - a different measurement than the unemployment rate.
  • The report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, provides the total number of people hired and laid off each month. It's different from the department's monthly jobs report, which provides each month's net job gain or loss and the unemployment rate. By quantifying total hiring and layoffs, the JOLTS report paints a fuller picture of what employers are doing.
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