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Does your life need a reboot ?

GRNews — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:55:13 +0000

We are used to the idea of rebooting our PC when it starts acting sluggish (specially Windows users). Are you at a stage where you are looking for a reboot ?

An HBR article, prompted this post. Avery Quick Excerpt from the article first -

Consider the story of the boiling frog. It may or may not be true, but the point it makes certainly is. Toss a frog into a pot of boiling water and it instinctively jumps out, self-protectively. Next, place the frog into a pot of cool water. Not surprisingly, it swims around, happily. Now heat the water up very gradually and what does the frog do? It acclimates to untenable circumstances — and slowly cooks. The frog doesn’t notice what’s happening to him, until it’s too late.

We’re experiencing the same phenomenon. Facing ever more demand, complexity and uncertainty, our initial response is to push ourselves harder and more relentlessly, without taking account of the costs we’re incurring.

A fresh start in a new destination, maybe just what the doctor ordered. Global Residency and its partners continue to bring information on new destinations that you may want to think about. It is all about finding the right fit – between your needs and what each of these destinations offers. Write to us to discuss your requirements – info@globalresidency.com

Here is a link to the article -

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/07/is-the-life-youre-living-worth.html

Skills Shortages and the Unemployment numbers

GRNews — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:48:05 +0000

Skills shortages and high unemployment – unlikely to exist together. Facts and figures though suggest otherwise. As a sample, data from United States make interesting reading.

The United States unemployment numbers have been fairly high (national average hovering in the 9% range). Even in this scenario, employers are challenged to find the right skill fits for their job openings.

The following text from a recent Time article (June 20,2011) sums up the challenge well -

A bigger issue is that the available skills in the labor pool don’t line up well with the available jobs. Case in point: there are 3 million job openings today. “There’s a tremendous mismatch in the jobs market right now” says McKinsey partner James Manyika, co-author of a new study title An Economy That Works: Job Creation and America’s Future. “It runs across skill set, gender, class and geography.”

The article goes on to say -

A labor market bifurcated by gender, skill set and geography means that unemployed auto workers in Michigan can’t sell their underwater homes and retool as machinists in North Dakota, where homes are cheaper and the unemployment rate is under 5%.

All this goes to confirm that global mobility of labor is a key component of productive economies. An uptick in unemployment numbers does not mean that there is no skills shortage.

Impact of offshoring and immigration on native workers

GRNews — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:52:44 +0000

What is the impact of offshoring and immigration on native workers ?

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, and Greg C. Wright (2010). Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs. NBER Working Paper No. 16439. National Bureau of Economic Research.

The authors ask: “How many ‘American jobs’ are taken away from US-born workers due to immigration and offshoring?”

(1) They examine employment data from 58 manufacturing industries in the United States from 2000 to 2007. They find that an increase in offshoring—the relocation of a firm’s production process to another country —within an industry has no effect on the employment of natives in that industry. However, they do find that an increase in immigrant employment within an industry has a positive effect on the employment of natives in that industry. The authors explain that the results are due to the “productivity effect”: lower employment costs associated with offshoring and immigration increase both productivity and profits in an industry, which then increase overall demand for labour in that industry as well.

The study also finds that an increase in offshoring results in more natives employed in jobs with higher cognitive and non-routine tasks and leads to more immigrant employment in jobs with manual and routine tasks.

Together, the results suggest that immigrants compete for jobs more with offshore workers than with native workers.

A link to the complete working paper is below

http://www.nber.org/papers/w16439.pdf

Germany eases immigration laws for professionals

GRNews — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:15:42 +0000

On March 23rd Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet has passed legistlation that aims to make it easier for foreign professionals to get their qualifications recognized and use their skills in Germany.

“You can still find the doctor from Israel or Turkey whose job qualifications are not being approved,” Education Minister Annette Schavan told reporters in Berlin. “We need different rules, rules that do justice to today’s globalized world and mobility.”

The new law still needs to pass Germany’s lower and upper house of parliament later this year.

The law targets foreign professionals from all over the world and will apply to those already living in Germany as well as prospective newcomers. Citizens from fellow European Union nations are already overwhelmingly allowed to work freely in all of the bloc’s 27 member nations.

“There is a young generation out there today that naturally plans its careers as taking place on different continents,” Schavan said, implying that Germany no longer wants to lose out on international high achievers, who often prefer the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom over Germany.

Germany’s booming economy is especially aggravated by a shortage of engineers — there were some 80,600 open jobs in the profession last month, according to the Association of German Engineers.

Physicians are also desperately needed. A doctors association, Marburger Bund, says the country lacks 12,000 physicians at hospitals and 3,000 general practitioners.

“We now have a lack of 400,000 engineers, master craftsmen and skilled workers,” Hans Heinrich Driftmann of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce DIHK said recently. “We’re already losing one percent of our economic growth and in the future this shortage will only get worse.”

Australian demand for skilled professionals on the rise

GRNews — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:08:02 +0000

In her economic speech, the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, warned of skills shortages – ” a problem unmatched anywhere else in the industrialised world”.

It is likely that Australia will be announcing a more relaxed points system. The new system will place more emphasis on English language proficiency, high level qualifications and work experience. Some of the professions that are expected to be given priority are – medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, accounting, construction, engineering, and a few others.

Given the recent flooding damage to the country, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has also promised a five-day visa turnaround for decision-ready skilled labor applications from those willing to help with reconstruction.

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Skills Shortage in U.S. Manufacturing

GRNews — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:18:42 +0000

Boom times or slowdowns, the skills shortage challenge continues to haunt employers, especially in skilled professions. A global outlook towards your skills supply chain, can ensure that your organization wins the talent war. At Global Residency, it is our goal to help you turn the skills challenge into a sustainable competitive advantage.

As employers across the country continue to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs, many manufacturers face an ironic dilemma. As they eliminate positions—mainly repetitive, assembly-type jobs—they still have unfilled openings for high-skilled workers. In fact, nearly 1/3 of respondents to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte, the Manufacturing Institute and Oracle report some level of shortages, and the problem is most acute within the aerospace, defense and life science sectors. Respondents also reported dissatisfaction with the skills of current employees.

In response, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) offers tools that help companies not only to facilitate necessary training, but also to identify particular areas of need. Available optionss from SME include industry credentials, such as a new Green Manufacturing Specialist Certificate with Purdue University, a multi-level lean certification program and flexible corporate training. Corporate training includes standardized tests and other means to identify workforce knowledge gaps and facilitate the necessary training.

“Employers need to know their workers’ baseline knowledge so that they can determine what training and experience employees need to be more productive for the company,” says Kris Nasiatka, SME certification manager.

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