Yearly Archives: 2008
Firms Fight Generation Gaps
When different generations meet in the workplace, the encounters can easily create attitude wars. The conflict is a result of differing values, cultures and lifestyles that characterize each of four…
Cost of raising a child exceeds $200,000 – not including college!
Children used to provide cheap labor, and retirement security, all in one. Now they’re pretty much all cost and no return, from a financial perspective. Writing in Foreign…
Could Pre-Employment Tests Predict John Edward’s Lying?
I just read an interesting blog about John Edwards, Pre-employment Tests, and Lying. Dr. Michael Mercer proposes that all Presidential candidates "should take a personality-based pre…
5 Tips to reduce health and safety risk for older workers.
Studies by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that aging workers have fewer workplace injuries, but diabetes, hypertension and other age-related ailments are increasing employers’ costs associated…
Job hopping confirmed among Gen Y employees
How much time does your business have to win over the hearts and minds of a Gen Y employee? According to a new survey of more than 2,500 senior…
Gray Matters
Indiana’s work force will suffer from a monumental generational shift that will hit the entire nation by the end of this decade, according to an ongoing study title…
Pressure building to fill demand for underwater welders
Underwater welding is one of the specialty skills that puts commercial divers in high demand for construction work along the Gulf Coast and at other locations. Following Hurricanes Katrina and…
Fire protection engineers in high demand and short supply
Fire protection engineers are in high demand and short supply, according to a survey just released by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SPFE). The survey reinforces the expanding workforce…
A Human Energy Crisis?
A few days ago I was asked an interesting question by a reporter from a well-respected business journal: In this buyer’s market for talent, are companies asking…
10 Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2008
Despite rising unemployment and a slowing economy, many employers are still finding it hard to find enough skilled workers to fill certain positions. The 10 Hardest Jobs to Fill…