Download or read book Jobcentre Plus Employer market View Survey 2004 written by Karen Bunt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jobcentre Plus Annual Employer market View Survey 2006 07 written by Karen Bunt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jobcentre Plus Annual Employer market View Survey 2005 06 written by Karen Bunt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retail Work written by Irena Grugulis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned experts assess the role of retail work in modern industrial economies in Retail Work. Chapters are arranged thematically to capture four aspects of retail work: the nature of work and the shop floor; work across the supply chain and the wider productive system; the skills used in retailing; and workers as a collectivity.
Download or read book An assessment of industrial employment skill gaps among university graduates written by Mirza, Faisal Mehmood and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study is to examine different assessments of employers and students about job skills leading to differences defined as skill, employability, and perception gaps based on surveys of 100 industrial employers and 151 final year students from 6 universities and postgraduate colleges in the Gujrat-Sialkot-Gujranwala industrial cluster. Factor analysis grouped 24 specific skills into the three interpretable categories: communication and business specific skills, core employability skills, and professional skills. The results suggest gaps in all three respects for each of the skill categories. Employers were least satisfied with the professional skill s of new employees compared to their scores on the importance of these skills. Students also scored their own professional skills lower than the importance of these skills in the job market. Smaller but similar differences arise for the other skill categories.Students generally gave higher nominal scores to the importance of all skills than were given by employers. When disaggregated by discipline, students in more technical fields (engineering, computer science, and IT), which are supposed to possess high level of technical skills, claim a shortage of these skills, whereas students from economics, commerce and business administration indicated they were neither sound in professional skills nor the softer skills. Close coordination among all stakeholders through internship programs for students, development and timely revision of market oriented curricula, and special skill enhancement training programs are recommended steps to enhance productive youth employment in Pakistan.
Download or read book Education for All written by Richard Pring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment: What counts as an educated 19 year old today? Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet the needs of all young people, as well as the social and economic needs of the wider community? Education for All addresses these questions in the light of evidence collected over five years by the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the most rigorous investigation of every aspect of this key educational phase for decades. Written by the co-directors of the Nuffield Review, Education for All provides a critical, comprehensive and thoroughly readable overview of 14-19 education and training and makes suggestions for the kind of education and training that should be provided over the coming decade and beyond. The authors acknowledge that much has been achieved by the respective governments – massive investment in resources; closer collaboration between schools, colleges, training providers, voluntary agencies and employers; recognition and promotion of a wider range of qualifications. They are also optimistic about the good things that are going on in many secondary classrooms – enormous amounts of creativity; courageous efforts to meet problems; a deep concern and caring for many young people otherwise deprived of hope and opportunity. But they argue for a radical reshaping of the future in the light of a broader vision of education – a greater respect for more practical and active learning; a system of assessment which supports rather than impoverishes learning; respect for the professional expertise of the teacher; a more unified system of qualifications ensuring progression into higher education and employment; the creation of strongly collaborative and local learning systems; and a more reflective and participative approach to policy. Education for All should be read by everyone working in – or with an interest in – secondary-level education in England and Wales and beyond.
Download or read book Managing Human Resources written by Stephen Bach and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition is a comprehensive, authoritative set of essays. It is more detailed and analytical than the mainstream treatments of HRM. As in previous editions, Managing Human Resources analyses HRM, the study of work and employment, using an integrated multi-disciplinary approach. The starting point is a recognition that HRM practice and firm performance are influenced by a variety of institutional arrangements that extend beyond the firm. The consequences of HRM need to incorporate analysis of employees and other stakeholders as well as the implications for organizational performance.
Download or read book Aesthetic Labour written by Chris Warhurst and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and exciting new text looks at the implications of aesthetic labour for work and employment by contextualizing debates and offering a critical approach. The origins of aesthetic labour are explored, as well as the relevant theories from business and management, and sociology. Coverage includes key topics such as: corporate strategy; recruitment and selection practices; and discrimination. Key features include: - a range of case studies from across different types of organizations and popular culture - the exploration of topics such as branding, ′lookism′, ′dressing for success′ and cosmetic surgery - suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Future of Employment Relations written by A. Wilkinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPUB
Download or read book Poverty and Insecurity written by Shildrick, Tracy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people exist without predictability or security in their lives? What effects do flexible and insecure forms of work have on material and psychological well-being? This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about ‘the workless’ and ‘the poor’, by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain. Work may be ‘the best route out of poverty’ sometimes but for many people getting a job can be just a turn in the cycle of recurrent poverty – and of long-term churning between low-skilled ‘poor work’ and unemployment. Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many.
Download or read book Children s Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools written by Watson, Debbie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the concept of wellbeing as applied to children, particularly in a school-based context. Taking a post-structural approach, it suggests that wellbeing should be understood, and experiences revealed, at the level of the subjective child. This runs counter to contemporary accounts that reduce children's wellbeing to objective lists of things that are needed in order to live well. This book will be useful for academics and practitioners working directly with children, and anyone interested in children's wellbeing.
Download or read book What Employers Look for when Recruiting the Unemployed and Inactive written by Becci Newton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study (80 pages) examined the evidence relating to what employers are looking for when recruiting unemployed / inactive people, and the extent to which government provision meets their needs. The following questions were examined: What sort of characteristics, skills and qualifications do employers look for when recruiting employees? How important are qualifications to employers? Are employers more interested in soft skills/employability skills? If so, how do employers recognise soft skills in the interview process and afterwards? Table of contents: * Summary * What employers look for when recruiting unemployed and inactive people * Introduction and definitions * Findings from the academic, policy and evaluation literature (Key findings. Skills and employment in the UK economy. The demand for skills. The range of skills) * Regional, sectoral and occupational differences in recruitment demand (Regional perspective. Sectoral perspective. Occupational perspective. Unemployment and hard-to-fill and skills-shortage. Vacancies) * The characteristics, skills and qualifications employers look for when recruiting (Characteristics. Skills. Qualifications) * The role of qualifications in recruitment (The importance of qualifications. What qualifications demonstrate. Industry dimensions to the importance of qualifications) * The role of soft skills and how these are measured in recruitment (The importance of soft skills to employers. Measuring soft skills in the recruitment process. Informal assessment of soft skills. Formal assessment of soft skills) * Recruiting from different groups (Older people. Young people) * Conclusions * Expert views of employers' needs on recruitment (Key findings. The characteristics, skills and qualifications employers look for when recruiting. Characteristics and skill requirements. The value attached by employers to qualifications. Employers' views on recruiting unemployed or inactive people. Employers' views of training. Summary) * Appendix Discussion guide for expert interviews * Table 1.1 Terms used in the evidence search * Table 1.2 Understanding qualification levels * Table 1.3 Examples of job roles in occupational categories * Table 2.1 Different skills types referred to in this report * Table 2.2 Employability skills framework summary * Table 2.3 Critical skills required in recruitment, by occupation (per cent).
Download or read book National Statistics Annual Report 2003 04 written by Great Britain. Office for National Statistics and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth National Statistics annual report which highlights the variety of work carried out by statisticians and other analysts in the Government Statistical Service (GSS) during the year 2003-04. It considers the progress made in implementing the statistical plans set out in the National Statistics Work Programme for 2003/04 to 2005/06, across three main areas of work: major developments in cross-cutting departmental or theme boundaries; work carried out under the aegis of the 12 National Statistics Theme Groups; and quality improvements carried out in the context of the National Statistics Quality Review Programme.
Download or read book Labour Market Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Employer Engagement written by Jo Ingold and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work into work through a range of interventions including job search, training and in-work support and development. While policies and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers’ engagement with these initiatives, this book sheds light for the first time on the employer’s perspective.
Download or read book Ethnic Minority Perceptions and Experiences of Jobcentre Plus written by Maria Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
