Official labour market figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a further steep rise in UK unemployment in the February-April quarter. John Philpott, Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) described the figures as ‘grim but not unexpected’ but added that figures for the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (the claimant count) were ‘amazingly good given what we know about the state of the jobs market, though too puzzling to yet be seen as a genuine ‘green shoot’.

•	General information about job entrance: UK labour market recession one-year-on
•	General information about job entrance: Training and career progression opportunities open
•	General information about job entrance: Graduates and school leavers set to sweat over job prospects in this summer’s tight labour market

While there are no reliable signs of recovery in demand for consulting, the rate at which the market is contracting has slowed, according to the latest report from sourceforconsulting.com, a management consulting industry watcher.

•	Global Economy: Reclaiming Confidence - Is It too Early for That?

Fewer employees will be given international assignments than in past years thanks to the recession, and those employees who do get the assignments are more likely to be older and more experienced workers, according to a recent survey.

•	Living and working in...: The expatriate manager now a declining species
•	General information about job entrance: Return of the expats

Werden Sie Praktikant bei einem renommierten Reiseveranstalter! Nach einer kurzen Einarbeitung in Frankfurt, startet Ihr 6monatiges Praktikum in einer der schönsten Städte der Welt: Sydney!

Ferne Länder, fremde Kulturen – es gibt viele Möglichkeiten die Welt zu erkunden. Im Rahmen eines Volunteerprojektes (Freiwilligenarbeit im Ausland), kann man tiefe Einblicke in die Kultur eines Landes gewinnen. Neuseeland ist ein beliebtes Ziel für engagierte Traveller. Die einzigartige Natur, in Verbindung mit den Geheimnissen der Maori bildet eine ideale Voraussetzung für das Abenteuer Volunteer. Neben Umwelt und Tierschutz kann man sich auch in den Bereichen Bildung/Betreuung und Tourismus in mindestens 4wöchigen Projekten engagieren. Ein optionaler Sprachkurs zu Beginn des Programms ist die optimale Basis, Land und Leute kennenzulernen.

Das Unternehmen befragte Manager in Deutschland zu ihren Erfahrungen und Einschätzungen bezüglich der Meetingkultur in Deutschland. Rund 40% sehen Meetings als Zeitverschwendung an. 38% der Befragten monierten eine fehlende Fixierung der Meetingergebnisse und eine klare Aufgabenverteilung für alle Teilnehmer. Mehr als 30% sind auf eigene Mitschriften angewiesen, da nicht professionell protokolliert wird.

When searching for the right job, the best advice is to be choosy. There are plenty of less than great jobs out there, many of which you may easily obtain. But no one on the professional level should settle for just a J-O-B. Even more important, as you search for the job that’s right for you, you need to be particularly vigilant and avoid the bad jobs. Anyone who has ever looked for a job on any major job site like Monster or CareerBuilder will find a myriad of quality jobs, but woven into that fabric of jobs are many bad jobs that look very attractive at first glance, but upon further examine turn out to be bad jobs. This likelihood increases when looking for a job on free online classified sites like Craigslist. Here are some signs that you may be pursuing a bad job:

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A Swiss university is offering a course designed to train professionals for careers in international organisations and agencies. Increasingly, decisions affecting the global economy, international security, the environment and even health and social matters, are being devised and put into effect by multilateral institutions, both governmental and non-governmental.

•	Economics: SWITZERLAND: Training Professionals for International Organisations
•	General information on studying at college: Academic Migration, Are You Prepared?
•	Business Behaviour: Business know-how for Switzerland

Thirteen percent of the estimated 60,444 Chinese students in Korea are in the country illegally, the Justice Ministry said last week.