I like my data presented to me in pictures and this is superb.
via Stephen's Lighthouse (Stephen Abram)
Read it for yourself here
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Job-seekers are changing careers, looking for dream jobs
via The Monster Blog by Charles Purdy
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This week at Monster, we've been discussing the idea of “dream jobs”. We co-hosted a Twitter chat (with TalentCulture), in which we asked both career experts and job-seekers questions such as “Do you think the idea of dream jobs is good or bad for job-seekers – does it encourage or discourage them?” and “How much of the responsibility for creating dream jobs is the employer’s or boss’s?”
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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers
a research paper by Simonetta Longhi and Mark Taylor (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)
Abstract
We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this difference seems to be due to behavioural differences between employed and unemployed job seekers rather than differences in characteristics. Consistent with search theory, we find that employed job seekers are more selective in evaluating job offers; for example, they are less likely to accept low-wage and temporary jobs, or jobs that do not meet their working hour requirements.
Full document (PDF 33pp)
Hazel’s comment:
That final sentence of the abstract might seem to be stating the obvious. Of course, if you’ve currently got a job you can afford to pick and choose more than if you haven’t. What I found interesting was not that obvious conclusion but the steps that both employed and unemployed job-seekers take along the way to a new job. The research shows where those steps are similar and where they differ.
The findings bear out what those of us working in employment advice in the 70s and 80s “knew” but only anecdotally.
Abstract
We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this difference seems to be due to behavioural differences between employed and unemployed job seekers rather than differences in characteristics. Consistent with search theory, we find that employed job seekers are more selective in evaluating job offers; for example, they are less likely to accept low-wage and temporary jobs, or jobs that do not meet their working hour requirements.
Full document (PDF 33pp)
Hazel’s comment:
That final sentence of the abstract might seem to be stating the obvious. Of course, if you’ve currently got a job you can afford to pick and choose more than if you haven’t. What I found interesting was not that obvious conclusion but the steps that both employed and unemployed job-seekers take along the way to a new job. The research shows where those steps are similar and where they differ.
The findings bear out what those of us working in employment advice in the 70s and 80s “knew” but only anecdotally.
UK unemployment since 2005
South & East UK escape the worst
The UK experienced a long period of falling unemployment rates after the end of the early 1990s recession where it stood at 10.7 per cent at the start of 1993. The unemployment rate levelled off from around 2001 and reached a low in the UK of 4.7 per cent at the beginning of 2005. This was followed by a small rise and then a sharper increase during the 2008-2009 recession.
National Statistics Online provides a graphical view of the situation (also links to a podcast)
The UK experienced a long period of falling unemployment rates after the end of the early 1990s recession where it stood at 10.7 per cent at the start of 1993. The unemployment rate levelled off from around 2001 and reached a low in the UK of 4.7 per cent at the beginning of 2005. This was followed by a small rise and then a sharper increase during the 2008-2009 recession.
National Statistics Online provides a graphical view of the situation (also links to a podcast)
Monday, 1 August 2011
The Further Education and Skills Sector in 2020: …
A Social Productivity Approach
An LSIS commissioned report from the RSA’s 2020 Public Service Hub, providing an independent perspective for the further education and skills sector on possible futures.
The report calls on the sector to take advantage of its new found freedoms by breaking away from a narrow ‘delivery of qualifications’ role to place more emphasis on citizen engagement, interaction with employers and civic leadership. For FE to be transformative in 2020, the report recommends that the FE sector follows five new directions:
Executive summary (PDF 12pp) [Warning: do not try printing in colour if you value your ink supply]
Full document (PDF 69pp)
An LSIS commissioned report from the RSA’s 2020 Public Service Hub, providing an independent perspective for the further education and skills sector on possible futures.
The report calls on the sector to take advantage of its new found freedoms by breaking away from a narrow ‘delivery of qualifications’ role to place more emphasis on citizen engagement, interaction with employers and civic leadership. For FE to be transformative in 2020, the report recommends that the FE sector follows five new directions:
- Incubate social value
- Network Local Growth
- Drive public service integration
- Re-set citizen engagement
- Create platforms for open learning
Executive summary (PDF 12pp) [Warning: do not try printing in colour if you value your ink supply]
Full document (PDF 69pp)
Adult career progression & advancement: …
A five-year study of the effectiveness of career guidance
The most recent Bulletin from the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER) presents the findings from a five year longitudinal qualitative research study into the nature of effective career guidance undertaken at IER. It summarises findings from the fifth and final year of the study, presenting evidence on the role of guidance in the process of career development and progression, and follows on from previous Bulletins (Nos. 78, 84, 87 and 90).
Bulletin 99 full document (PDF 4pp)
The most recent Bulletin from the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER) presents the findings from a five year longitudinal qualitative research study into the nature of effective career guidance undertaken at IER. It summarises findings from the fifth and final year of the study, presenting evidence on the role of guidance in the process of career development and progression, and follows on from previous Bulletins (Nos. 78, 84, 87 and 90).
Bulletin 99 full document (PDF 4pp)
10 non-work-related items that I found fun or interesting
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Nobody likes a grammar scold, but it must be said: Ambiguity has a death grip on our syntax. The principles of effective speech are in tatters. Verbal chaos reigns...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
No species of animal outside of Homo sapiens rears the young of other species and supports them into old age. People love their pets...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
A woman walks into a male-dominated, money-losing start-up. Now Facebook turns a billion-dollar profit. What's the lesson?...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Looking for insight, Elizabeth Edwards is more likely to quote Ovid than the Gospels. From the Old Testament, she prefers the Book of Job, and no wonder... more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
The media don’t shape the culture; they merely reflect it, giving rise to today’s common readers: Those who have fallen in love with their own mediocre taste...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Effective, irresponsible populism: Western European leaders find blaming multiculturalism useful because it is both vague and misdirected...more
Fragger via the How-To Geek by Asian Angel
The object of the game is simple. You are a grenade-throwing soldier on a mission to dispose of enemy troops as efficiently as possible.
When you click Play you can select from one of three difficulty levels to suit your mood.
Fragger comes with thirty levels of grenade throwing goodness.
And so it goes on
Play Fragger
Thirty levels of Fragger not enough for you? Then head on over to play the sequel!
Play Fragger – Lost City
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
When it comes to excavating the history of consumerism, never underestimate the value of a good dung-fork... more
Social history at its best!
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Evaluating evil. Between 1933 and 1945, 14 million civilians died in lands ruled by Stalin and Hitler. Does that diminish the singularity of the Holocaust?... more
The reviewer says that he had to close the book because he couldn’t bear to continue reading about the atrocities committed in the Ukraine in 1932-33. I found it difficult to even read the review.
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
“Death to the Jews!” resounded in the courtyard of the École Militaire as medals were ripped off Capt. Alfred Dreyfus and his sabre broken in two... more
This is not a quick read and, unless you have studied this period in history, may tax your brain a bit but you learn something new every day (so they say).
Nobody likes a grammar scold, but it must be said: Ambiguity has a death grip on our syntax. The principles of effective speech are in tatters. Verbal chaos reigns...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
No species of animal outside of Homo sapiens rears the young of other species and supports them into old age. People love their pets...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
A woman walks into a male-dominated, money-losing start-up. Now Facebook turns a billion-dollar profit. What's the lesson?...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Looking for insight, Elizabeth Edwards is more likely to quote Ovid than the Gospels. From the Old Testament, she prefers the Book of Job, and no wonder... more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
The media don’t shape the culture; they merely reflect it, giving rise to today’s common readers: Those who have fallen in love with their own mediocre taste...more
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Effective, irresponsible populism: Western European leaders find blaming multiculturalism useful because it is both vague and misdirected...more
Fragger via the How-To Geek by Asian Angel
The object of the game is simple. You are a grenade-throwing soldier on a mission to dispose of enemy troops as efficiently as possible.
When you click Play you can select from one of three difficulty levels to suit your mood.
Fragger comes with thirty levels of grenade throwing goodness.
And so it goes on
Play Fragger
Thirty levels of Fragger not enough for you? Then head on over to play the sequel!
Play Fragger – Lost City
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
When it comes to excavating the history of consumerism, never underestimate the value of a good dung-fork... more
Social history at its best!
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Evaluating evil. Between 1933 and 1945, 14 million civilians died in lands ruled by Stalin and Hitler. Does that diminish the singularity of the Holocaust?... more
The reviewer says that he had to close the book because he couldn’t bear to continue reading about the atrocities committed in the Ukraine in 1932-33. I found it difficult to even read the review.
via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
“Death to the Jews!” resounded in the courtyard of the École Militaire as medals were ripped off Capt. Alfred Dreyfus and his sabre broken in two... more
This is not a quick read and, unless you have studied this period in history, may tax your brain a bit but you learn something new every day (so they say).
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