Word: hires
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can rest easy as the White House goes through the messy and contentious process of actually trying to implement it. As for the tracking number, there are two proposals: a) Create a new code for everyone based on your date and location of birth and hire hundreds of bureaucrats to dish them out; and b) use your Social Security number. No prizes for guessing which one the feds are in favor...
...City's ordinance also requires contractorsto hire a prescribed minimum percentage ofminority and women workers...
TRAINING Company managers grouse endlessly about how few job seekers have the skills they need. Colleges, for example, are currently granting degrees in computer sciences to barely 25% of the number of people industry wants to hire. And new skill sets are in demand because of what Hofrichter of Hay Group calls "almost another industrial revolution." He explains that companies in their quest to become lean and mean have combined old jobs and put together work teams to the point that they no longer look for narrow skills but instead for workers who can do what used...
Some companies are going beyond griping to the logical next step, which is to hire willing and adaptable people and train them in the particular combination of skills they as employers require. "We are hiring out of nontraditional sources--community colleges, vocational schools, high school graduates who don't plan to go to college--and training for entry-level positions," reports George Newstrom, vice president of Electronic Data Systems, a company with 70,000 employees...
...weekday job (40 hours) is working for the Springfield public school district doing research under the auspices of the superintendent. Seeing a Harvard student, he probably wanted to hire me as an example of the type of person the school district could produce...