Provides the latest RSS feeds for Careers News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Birmingham Star.com http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/cat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 21:45:11 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:45:11 -0400 30 Beginning next year, the state will change the way unemployment appeals are handled by requiring that hearing officers be lawyers. Currently, appeals referees do not have to be attorneys. They are Department of Economic Opportunity staff members trained to decide cases in which an employee or employer challenges a decision to withhold or award unemployment benefits. A bill passed in this ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747719/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:32:50 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747719/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Company: West Georgia Health Christian is this month's Premier 100 IT Leader, answering questions about the major issues IT should be addressing in the coming year and career paths. If you have a question you'd like to pose to one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, send it ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747441/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:45 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747441/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 EU president Herman Van Rompuy is calling on Europe's leaders for help in fighting youth unemployment, now at record levels across the 27-nation bloc. In a letter to the union's heads of state and government, Van Rompuy said on Friday he aimed to put the fight against unemployment high on the agenda at the bloc's next summit, June 27 and 28. "The number of unemployed people in our ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747440/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:06:15 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214747440/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 By Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture.It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can barely get through three waking hours without working, ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214746147/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:29:50 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214746147/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Accra, May 24, GNA - The Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) in Accra, is to stimulate the interest of girls to pursue careers in Information and Communication Technology ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214744810/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:13:46 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214744810/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 "Supporting the initiative of the Education Ministry, President Ilham Aliyev once again showed that he is the president of each Azerbaijani citizen and supporter of equal opportunities for every school leaver," Education Minister of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov said. In response to education minister’s appeal to the president, the latter ordered to issue certificates to all ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214740550/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:10 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214740550/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 IDG News Service - SAP abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has been a champion of SAP's HANA in-memory database platform, which has been positioned as the future convergence point for all of SAP's ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214741804/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:24:44 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214741804/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Archelons has announced it will invest $1 million in Qatar over the coming five years in the field of management solutions. Making the announcement at an event in Doha, Archelons CEO Pankaj Mittal said the company's management solutions include talent identification, talent sourcing, assessment solutions and recruitment. "Archelons seeks to open doors for both recruiters and job seekers ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214735414/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:58:18 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214735414/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 John Yang, Correspondent, NBC News writes GOSHEN, Ind. -- When you see an RV on the highway or in a campground, there's a good chance it came from this area of north-central Indiana: Almost half of RVs on the road today were made in Elkhart County.When the recession hit and RV sales plunged (58 percent from 2006 from 2009), and unemployment here soared to the highest in the nation: a ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214726400/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:32:54 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214726400/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Knox County's jobless rate rose to 6.4 percent in April, up from 6.2 percent in March, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214725462/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:30:11 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214725462/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Florida officials this week finished paying back about $3.5 billion the state had borrowed from the federal government to make unemployment payments during the worst of the recession. It was one of 36 states forced to borrow the money from the feds to ensure the unemployed received the payments to which they were entitled. In Florida, the maximum payment is $275 a week. Payments typically come ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214725240/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:13:21 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214725240/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Jeff Hiben, an automotive instructor at Oxnard College, and student volunteer Fernando Galindo, 12, give a presentation about troubleshooting car repairs during the career fair at Blackstock Junior High School in Oxnard Wednesday ... http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214723966/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:12 -0400 http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/sid/214723966/scat/6f3c1ecc1ee3a0d7