Welcome to Vedior’s HR blog. This blog aims to explore current issues and news items in the staffing industry and in the wider realm of recruitment and employment in the global labour market. The blog is authored and moderated by Jennifer Arcuni, communications executive with Vedior Holding BV, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. An American, Jennifer has been based in Amsterdam since 2000 and joined Vedior in September 2006.
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The employment and education news from down under last month was rife last month with chatter surrounding the teacher shortages, current and impending, in Australian school systems. Following the results of a survey published by the Australian Counci ...
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Posted: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:29:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, HR, jobs, labour market, recruitment, skills shortages, work, workplace
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Gender and race have been the at the forefront of recent commentary in my home country these days, as the democratic party is perhaps poised to give America its first woman or first black president. The candidates themselves, yes you know to whom I’m ...
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Posted: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:17:00 AM
Filed under: employability, employment, General, jobs, labour market, online recruitment, recruitment
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair, so goes the song in reference to the World’s Fair held in Saint Louis just over a century ago (1904). By both anecdotal accounts and according to Monster’s Occupational Trends Index, this old fair tow ...
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Posted: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:07:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, jobs, labour market, online recruitment, recruitment, work, workplace
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Whether he comes dashing in on his sleigh, arrives suited and booted via an agency or is straight from the Amalgamated Order of the Real Bearded Santas, he is on just about every street corner in our global cities right now and clocks more overtime t ...
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Posted: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:41:00 PM
Filed under: General, skills shortages, work
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Since the dawn of modern welfare programmes, opposition as well as concerned advocates of unemployment benefits have cited the gap between benefits and low wage employment as a deterent to getting people back to work. The recent OECD Benefits and Wag ...
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Posted: Monday, December 17, 2007 1:38:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, jobs, labour market, recruitment, unemployment, work, workplace
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Although the rise of discount clothing retailers globally has enabled most income levels of workers to feel comfortable with their attire in workplace, economically challenged workers, new entrants to the labour market and those returning after an ab ...
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Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:12:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, HR, jobs, work, workplace
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We all know that video killed the radio star, but will it also kill the CV? With sites like CareerTV, Vault and TokBok becoming increasingly popular in online networking, and with more and more video résumés/CVs being uploaded daily, is the future of ...
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Posted: Friday, November 23, 2007 6:48:00 PM
Filed under: employment, ERE, General, HR, online recruitment, recruitment
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has embarked on ‘the journey to 2020’, and in a report launched last week on their website, they traverse the future of people management and follow its course through 3 separate scenarios, or worlds, as they call them. Taking ...
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:09:00 AM
Filed under: General, HR, labour market, recruitment, work, workplace
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My final year in graduate school was a brutal one. I had a full course load, a teaching position and two part-time jobs to pay the bills. Reviewing my agenda I realised I would be lucky to average 5 hours of sleep a night. As a devout member of the ...
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Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:57:00 PM
Filed under: General, jobs, work, workplace
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Panorama, the world’s longest running current affairs programme which broadcasts on the BBC, aired an episode earlier this week entitled ‘Real Apprentices’. The programme, a far cry from Donald Trump and Sir Alan Sugar, examines unemployment in the U ...
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Posted: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:54:00 AM
Filed under: employment, General, labour market, unemployment, work
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I received one of those invitations today, another request to Link In. Although I really like the whole idea of LinkedIn, the online social network for the professional community, I am always curious when I receive an invitation from a would-be acqua ...
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Posted: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:07:00 AM
Filed under: General, LinkedIn , online recruitment, recruitment
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At least two of my previous posts have addressed the current and future skills shortages that the global labour market is facing and will face well into the coming decades. Skills shortages have been predicted, identified, measured and qualified. And ...
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Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:40:00 PM
Filed under: employability, employment, General, HR, recruitment, skills shortages, soft skills
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Last week, leading US reference publisher Merriam-Webster released it’s annual list of words which have been officially added to their dictionary. Leading that list was the word ginormous, an obvious fusion between the words ‘gigantic’ and ‘enormous’ ...
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Posted: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:20:00 AM
Filed under: DOVA, employment, flexicurity, General, labour market
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“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working you stay young. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” – George Burns, ac ...
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Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:08:00 AM
Filed under: employment, General, labour market, older workers, recruitment, skills shortages
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With summer literally on the horizon in the northern hemisphere, many a student’s head is swollen with visions of sun and surf, BBQs and ballgames. I can certainly remember that end-of-semester longing for those lazy, hazy days of summer. But for all ...
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Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:51:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, summer jobs
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There's a spotlight on skills shortages worldwide, and the lights are only getting brighter. Last week the ERE (Electronic Recruiting network) reported on the severe skills shortages in US healthcare, quoting one hospital CEO as saying "We hire every ...
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Posted: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:42:00 AM
Filed under: employment, ERE, General, recruitment, skills shortages
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Demos, a left-leaning think tank in the UK, believes that "everyone should be able to make personal choices in their daily lives that contribute to the common good." They pursue the advancement of this ideology by collaborating with organisations acr ...
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Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:16:00 PM
Filed under: employment, General, HR, recruitment
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In the March/April 2007 issue of Vedior’s International Review of Employment, Turkish politician Erkan Mumcu posits that “like economic growth, job creation is not something that happens by coincidence but as a result of systematic and coherent lear ...
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Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:28:00 PM
Filed under: EU investment, General, International Review
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We are in the thick of the entertainment awards season with the Golden Globes, the Grammy’s and the Brits behind us as we edge up to the Academy’s extravaganza. It’s always exciting to see who goes home with the prize. While the staffing industry may ...
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Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:49:00 PM
Filed under: General, HR, HR Awards
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I landed on HR.com this morning while I was searching industry sites in an attempt to clarify the term nonfarm employment for myself. Although I am still a little green in terms of my knowledge of the industry, I admit the term did seem remarkably st ...
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Posted: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:01:00 AM
Filed under: General, HR
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