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The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacting the whole service sector, including higher education, has forced universities to quickly innovate and recreate. The sanitary crisis resulted in the greatest disruption to educational systems in human history, as well as a shift in the nature, qualifications, and mix of the workforce. The reopening of higher education institutions is another concern, with numerous new operational procedures in place, new opportunities, and prospective curriculum adjustments based on labour market realities. Due to the development of technology, businesses' requirements for human resource credentials and job types underwent several modifications. This study's goal is to investigate how COVID-19 has influenced curriculum revisions and employability requirements. The research used a mixed methodology, with quantitative analysis of changes in enrolled students by major and a qualitative study including two different sets of surveys based on the innovation and employability theories addressed to five human resource (HR) directors from institutions and organizations in Lebanon, as well as three universities. The objective was to answer the following questions: How can universities adapt to the changing demands of the labour market specifically in times of crisis? Should university curricula place greater emphasis on students' personal growth than on technical and conventional learning? The results lead to re-thinking about what higher education systems and institutions can do to redesign their curricula in accordance with the job market and the expectations of the students in this challenging context, where employment security and job market stability issues are more urgent due to the economic crisis and advanced technologies. According to the findings, the research implications include boosting the implementation of the new curriculum through improved HR practices from the Ministry of Education. This will also encourage innovative performance, which will necessitate realistic, swift technical procedures to be unbeatable, creative, and competitive. This study adds significantly to the literature by suggesting curriculum adjustments for online courses and e-training. © 2023 by the author.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an acceleration unlike any other in terms of digital and technological acceleration for the entire world and also within Malaysia. The sudden and rapid need for organisations as well as businesses to shift their day-to-day operations online has changed the way people are working everywhere. And what that means is now more than ever, there is a huge increase in demand for a workforce that is ready and can pioneer this new age of rising technological needs in conjunction with the government's aim of heading towards Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Micro-credential (MC) has grown in popularity in recent years and have been labelled as a new disruptor to lifelong learning and higher learning. The Malaysian workforce and job seekers now have more options in their reskilling and upskilling efforts as they seek to remain relevant in the present-day job market which has shifted towards a digital transformation. An extensive study is proposed to be done to explore the current status quo of MC in Malaysia from the viewpoint of the hiring parties in the tech-related job markets as well as how MC will be able to play a part in the continuous growth of the tech and digital ecosystem in Malaysia. © 2023 IEEE.
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To analyse democratic and legal labour relations in the current conditions of economic and social development means, first and foremost, to highlight their essence and main features, as well as the development trends and future improvements of these relations.The year 2021, like 2020, has been characterized, among others, by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has produced various effects. As an effort to mitigate these effects, the Government of Kosovo has undertaken measures to support employment through the economic recovery package. Based on this context, the main and only purpose of the 1st Measure of economic recovery is the support of employment. Active employment measures have played a very important role in the integration of unemployed persons into the labour market. One of these measures with the largest number of beneficiaries is Vocational Training. Vocational training is a fundamental and very important process to get a job. In this sense, even the latest statistical data (2021) of the official authorities of Kosovo prove that the largest beneficiaries of active labour market measures are the persons who have undergone vocational training. The purpose of Vocational Training is to enable an increase or adoption of professional knowledge, namely to acquire additional knowledge, skills and abilities to perform efficient work, in order to increase the prospect of employment or retain their employment. Based on the international aspect, employment and the labour market are under the pressure of many factors, such as demographic, technological, economic and political ones;therefore, vocational training is considered as one of the most successful active labour market measures. © 2023, Institute for Human Rehabilitation. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 health crisis has drastically changed the lives of individuals around the world. The fear of infection, public guidelines, and a great deal of uncertainty resulted in a sharp decline in economic activity, disrupting global value chains and causing widespread job losses. Morocco, like the rest of the world, has experienced different changes in the job market. In this paper, we examine the effects of the pandemic on the Moroccan job market, focusing on which sectors and occupations were affected the most. Therefore, we analyze a 3-year-long collected dataset of job ads to understand the shifts that occurred in the job market. We use a variety of machine learning and text-mining techniques to process these ads. As part of our analysis, we classify those job ads according to the sector and the job title they mention. Our results show that the number of job ads has severely decreased during the lockdown period since the majority of businesses have stopped their activities. The demand declined in some sectors more than others during this period. However, despite the economic downturn, certain industries and sectors maintained most of their operations, and in some cases even experienced an increase in demand, such as the transport & logistic sector. © 2022 IEEE.
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This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and student attitudes toward graduate school. In the framework of human capital theory, we argue that graduate school is an investment in an individual's human capital that enhances future earnings capability. We hypothesize that during a weakened job market in conjunction with the COVID-19 pandemic that students who are more financially literate will demonstrate a more positive attitude toward a graduate degree as an appealing and rewarding capital investment than students with less financial literacy. Our robust results are consistent with our hypothesis. We argue that these findings have significant economic implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Background: The nursing shortage and the aging of the nursing workforce is a growing concern for health care institutions. Understanding nurses attitudes toward turnover intentions is a crucial step to develop effective policies and maintain nurse staffing continuity. Objective: This research aims to study the impact of the Professional Quality of Life and Fear of COVID-19 moderated by perceived Job Market Outlook on South Florida registered nurses by predicting turnover intentions. Methods: From March to August, 2021, 202 registered nurses from seven South Florida counties completed the self-reporting Professional Quality of Life, Fear of COVID-19, and perceptions of Job Market Outlook surveys when predicting turnover intentions in a quantitative nonexperimental predictive correlational design research study. Results: Results showed that in the professional quality of life, burnout significantly predicted (p <.001) registered nurses (n=202) turnover intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary traumatic stress, compassion satisfaction and fear of COVID-19 did not significantly predict registered nurses' turnover intentions. Hierarchical regression analysis confirmed burnout is significantly more predictive than no model of turnover intentions accounting for more variance at 15.45% (p < .001). Perceived job market outlook did not moderate between the independent variables and the dependent variable turnover intentions. Conclusion: This research reveals the deleterious impact of burnout in the registered nurses' professional quality of life and turnover intentions warranting the need for health care institutions and nursing leadership to collaborate on the needs of the nursing workforce on a micro and macro level. © 2023 Barron et al.
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The article reports that the survey assesses various employment metrics, thoughts on ongoing trends and predictions for the future of the industry. Topics include examines the intent is to not only create a snapshot of the bio/pharma industry as it exists in 2022, but to also encapsulate the thoughts and feelings of those within.
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Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate managers' experiences of managing work environment and risks during the Covid-19 pandemic and to explore how managers might use these experiences to develop future risk management. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 18 Swedish managers at different hierarchical levels working in 11 different organizations. A directed content analysis was carried out, informed by theory on risk management. Finding(s): The results point to the pandemic as a societal crisis which workplaces needed to manage through large means of improvisation. Regular work environment routines were put to the test, and several deficiencies in the work environment and risk management were identified. Organizations that handle occupational safety and risks on a daily basis through established routines were less affected and could easier adjust work environment and risk management, compared to organizations prioritizing the social and organizational work environment, which had to re-prioritize and start paying more attention to the physical work environment and to bring risk management into their daily routines. Originality/value: The study offers an account of how managers in different labor market sectors in Sweden have acted in the midst of the pandemic by handling real-time crises, how these experiences can be used for engaging in retrospective learning and how this may imply changes to their prospective risk management. Copyright © 2022, Cathrine Reineholm, Christian Stahl and Daniel Lundqvist.
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Purpose: The main goal of this paper is to test whether older Hungarian women face age discrimination in the job market. The theoretical framework of this paper measures the level of discrimination and highlights that age discrimination leads to a waste of human resources. Design/methodology/approach: Two pairs of fictitious CVs were created;each pair included a younger (34 years old) and an older woman (60 years old) with an age difference of 26 years. One pair was designed for office assistant positions, the other for economic analyst positions. The contents of the CVs with photos were entirely fabricated except for active email addresses and phone numbers to allow responses to be tracked. LinkedIn accounts were also created for the analysts. Applications were sent over a four-month period from November 2019. The rate of invitation to interviews was analysed with mathematical statistical methods and a small probability model. Findings: The younger job seekers were invited to interviews about 2.2 times more often than the older ones. Based on the authors' probability model, employers evaluate the skills of older applicants at only 45-67% of their actual skills. Research limitations/implications: The experiment had to be stopped due to the Covid-19 lockdown as there were no new job postings. Originality/value: The experiment demonstrates that age discrimination exists in Hungary. In addition to traditional audit job applications through HR portals, we used LinkedIn too. The small probability model applies an old framework in a new environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Learning Objectives: To survey graduating EM residents on their perceptions of the EM job market and its effect on their desire to pursue fellowship training. Background(s): The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in changes to the emergency medicine (EM) workforce which pose challenges to residents graduating from EM training programs. New graduates face increasing uncertainty in the search for their first job. EM graduates in 2020 and 2021 saw a notable decrease in opportunities compared to years prior. ACEP's Workforce Study (April 2021) predicts a surplus of emergency physicians by 2030. Objective(s): To survey graduating EM residents on their perceptions of the EM job market and its effect on their desire to pursue fellowship training. Method(s): We surveyed senior residents (PGY2 and above) at three- and four-year EM residency programs in the greater NYC area. Paper surveys were mailed out to each of the programs with a return envelope;a virtual link to complete the survey was also made available. Surveys were distributed from August 2021 to November 2021 to 22 EM residency programs (695 residents). Participation was voluntary and anonymous. The only demographic information gathered was program name and PGY level. Result(s): A total of 412 senior residents from the 22 EM residency programs completed the survey. Of the 412 seniors, 183 were PGY2s, 174 were PGY3s, and 55 were PGY4s and 5s (we included responses from residents in combined EM/IM programs). Survey questions and results are summarized in Table 1. Compared to colleagues in previous years, graduating EM residents anticipated broadening their job search. 58% of those considering fellowship after residency stated that their interest in fellowship has increased due to anticipated challenges in the job market (difficulty securing a full-time attending position). Conclusion(s): The majority of senior residents expressed concern about the current and future EM job market. How and where EM graduates apply for jobs may be impacted as a result. These data may prove valuable to residency programs, institutions, physician groups, and EM-bound medical students.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused numerous variations in the global economies with repercussions in all sectors. Once the emergency phase has finished, the entire worldwide population has changed its lifestyle and has had to adapt to live with the pandemic. In particular, the several modifications that have occurred in the job market and in schools and universities have determined a necessary reorganization of domestic spaces. The present study represents the first phase of a wider research aimed at verifying the transformation in the Italian residential market demand resulted by the Covid-19. The analysis carried out in this work has been performed at the municipal level, by considering the data published by the National Institute of Statistics collected for the 15th General Census of the population and housing in 2011. The dataset collected has been processed through an advanced econometric technique in order to identify the functional relationships between the residential average unit market value and the main architectural, socio-demographic and territorial factors. Further developments of this research will concern the application of the same methodological approach proposed to data detected by the National Institute of Statistics for the 16th Census scheduled for 2021. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Since the emergence of industry 4.0, digital tools have been employed in digital transformation (DT) processes in companies and organizations both public and private. Universities have been working on the incorporation of these new paradigms into their study curriculum, seeking to train engineers in a comprehensive manner for the current job market. The School of Engineering from a private university in Chile, enjoying the highest enrollment numbers in engineering careers nationwide, has made innovations in its curriculum in order to incorporate DT across all of its subjects. Professionals by and large acknowledge the importance of DT, while those associated to professional training recognize as necessary its inclusion in the curriculum. However, in recent years with the appearance of Covid19, online teaching through LMS became necessary, and it was subsequently noted that not all professors were able to adequately adapt to the use of available technologies for their online classes. There was thus a need to to identify this gap that could indicate weaknesses in the curricular innovation process to include DT and would thus allow the creation of improvement guidelines in relation to the preparation of the teachers involved. This present study aims to look into perceptions held by School of Engineering professors regarding the importance DT and any barriers had on the use of digital tools in relation to their reaching. Surveys were applied to ascertain professors' perception regarding DT usefulness and to determine how much they actually use digital tools, using quantitative data analysis methods. Preliminary research results show a gap in taking-up basic technology that professors employ in their class, even though they acknowledge the importance of incorporating DT in the curriculum. Implications are discussed in relation to possible strategies that the School of Engineering may have in improving DT uptake, not only at the level of the curriculum, but also from each teacher in their classroom. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
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In this article, author discusses about the impacts of the dental staffing crisis, poor management and bad leadership on the dentistry, increased amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to un-precedented rates of unemployment and greater uncertainty in the job market. There is a growing need for data-driven tools and analyses to better inform the public on trends within the job market. In particular, obtaining a 'snapshot' of available employment opportunities mid-pandemic promises insights to inform policy and support retraining programs. In this work, we combine data scraped from the Canadian Job Bank and Numbeo globally crowd-sourced repository to explore the relationship between job postings during a global pandemic and Key Performance Indicators (e.g. quality of life [QOL] index, cost of living) for major cities across Canada. This analysis aims to help Canadians make informed career decisions, collect a 'snapshot' of the Canadian employment opportunities amid a pandemic, and inform job seekers in identifying the correct fit between the desired lifestyle of a city and their career. We collected a new high-quality dataset of job postings from jobbank.gc.ca obtained with the use of ethical web scraping and performed exploratory data analysis on this dataset to identify job opportunity trends. When optimizing for average salary of job openings with QOL, affordability, cost of living, and traffic indices, it was found that Edmonton, AB consistently scores higher than the mean, and is therefore an attractive place to move. Furthermore, we identified optimal provinces to relocate to with respect to individual skill levels. It was determined that Ajax, Marathon, and Chapleau, ON are each attractive cities for IT professionals, construction workers, and healthcare workers respectively when maximizing average salary. Finally, we publicly release our scraped dataset as a mid-pandemic snapshot of Canadian employment opportunities and present a public web application that provides an interactive visual interface that summarizes our findings for the general public and the broader research community. © 2022 IEEE.
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We provide an estimate of the environmental impact of the recruitment system in the economics profession, known as the “international job market for economists”. Each year, most graduating PhDs seeking jobs in academia, government, or companies participate in this job market. The market follows a standardized process, where candidates are pre-screened in a short interview which takes place at an annual meeting in Europe or in the United States. Most interviews are arranged via a non-profit online platform, econjobmarket.org, which kindly agreed to share its anonymized data with us. Using this dataset, we estimate the individual environmental impact of 1057 candidates and one hundred recruitment committees who attended the EEA and AEA meetings in December 2019 and January 2020. We calculate that this pre-screening system generated the equivalent of about 4800 tons of avoidable CO2-eq and a comprehensive economic cost over €4.4 million. We contrast this overall assessment against three counterfactual scenarios: an alternative in-person system, a hybrid system (where videoconference is used for some candidates) and a fully online system (as it happened in 2020–21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Overall, the study can offer useful information to shape future recruitment standards in a more sustainable way.
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If there is a stage in life where the environment is decisive, this is undoubtedly adolescence. During childhood, the link with the reference person is created, laying the foundations of personality, and incorporating the tools to function afterwards. When adolescence arrives, the necessary “distance” from the family takes place, and the opinion and acceptance within the friend group becomes important. The adolescent’s self-perception and the way he/she relates with others will largely depend on these relationships. For adolescents and young people, school and university are the institutions where the knowledge taught is valued above other areas (such as family, networks or the Internet). Education equates all students, providing them with the training to later face the job market. Currently, we are facing the generation of digital media, who were born immersed in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Accessibility to a multitude of content, immediacy, relationships through networks, online games, etc, pose risks and opportunities. This article analyzes how the environment conditions the experience of the adolescent. Mention is made of the influence that the current pandemic situation due to SARS-CoV-2 is having.