"Help Wanted" highlights skills drain in U.S
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TRAFFORD, Pennsylvania  - Only half the machines are running at precision parts maker Hamill Manufacturing, nestled in the Allegheny Mountains just east of Pittsburgh, once the booming center of the U.S. steel industry.
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Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas reports that the US information technology industry lost 54,701 jobs in the July through September quarter, which is an increase of 14 percent from the same quarter last year.
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The number of new people claiming for jobless benefits in the United States declined sharply last week, a sign that the recovery in the US labor marketmay be strengthening.
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Empty homes and for-sale signs clutter neighborhoods. You've lost your job or know someone who has. Your paycheck and nest egg are taking a hit. Could the country be in recession?
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Engineering is among graduate fields with decline in new enrollment, a trend raising questions about U.S. tech leadership.
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In a sign U.S. companies are slowing up on their hiring, a survey on Thursday showed that it is taking longer than ever for workers to land a new job.
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A study of offshore outsourcing by the Brookings Institution indicates that some metropolitan areas in the U.S. could lose IT jobs in disproportionately heavy numbers over the next eight years.
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The adults most in need of skills training are getting a "raw deal", an inspection report says.
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US firms cut back on the total number of staff employed for the first time in four years, official data shows.
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More U.S. jobs were available in  July though fewer people were hired, the Labor Department said  on Wednesday.
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The U.S. government plans to hire  nearly 150,000 people in the next two years, but most will  replace existing workers while an aging workforce will  intensify competition from the private sector, a study released  on Wednesday showed.
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Low education standards have led to a vast shortage of qualified workers.
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As companies continue to hire thousands of skilled workers in India at lower levels, signs point to a talent shortage that is becoming acute at the high end.
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Off-shoring continues to take its toll This month has seen the UK's aspiring Prime Minister recycling his views in his Budget Report on the requirements and funding for enhancing the training opportunities and skills to compete globally as a prelude to announcing greater investment in higher education. Some people and organisations, âspeaking on behalf of the UK IT Industryâ, have hitched themselves to this bandwagon in the anticipation that some of the UK Government's proposed increase in its skills and education funding will find its way to the IT industry both in funding terms and in delivering more highly trained and motivated IT professionals.â¦
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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A $199,905 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development will serve economically and educationally disadvantaged adults who lack the technology skills needed to be successful in the workplace.
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A high-profile commission warned Thursday that U.S. workers will lose more jobs overseas and will see their standard of living drop unless dramatic steps are taken to improve how kids are educated.