“Last April, our workers were in dire straits,” New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said in testimony earlier this month to the Assembly Budget Committee. “The unemployment rate was 7.7%, and our workforce was barely half of its pre-pandemic levels. Today, the rate is down to 4.2% – lower than our neighboring states of Connecticut,
If you’ve been in the workforce for long, you know many companies offer traditional benefits like health care and retirement accounts to their employees. Recently, innovative companies like Google have looked beyond tradition to increase the well-being of their workers and attract a superior workforce. From yoga classes to a chance to obtain a new degree, here are seven innovative benefits you can find in the workplace today.
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For Secretary of Higher Education Zakiya Smith Ellis, the Jobs NJ program introduced by Gov. Phil Murphy last week comes down to a simple sentence that can be so telling:
“No one goes to college thinking that they are not going to finish,” she told ROI-NJ. “But, too many of our students do not finish. We’ve got to do whatever we can to ensure that once they start, they finish. That will have a huge impact on workforce development and our economy.”
New Jersey Human Resources Professionals should attend the GSC-SHRM 27th Annual Conference & Expo, October 14–16, 2018 in Atlantic City, NJ
Walk and Help The Fight Against Mental Illness in New Jersey in 2018 – visit www.namiwalks.org for more details
Are you graduating in the next few months from college? As a college graduate in the state of New Jersey, its a daunting task to figure out how to find a job in NJ. Here are some resources from NJJobMarket.com for NJ job candidates fresh out of school that includes everything from your cover letter, CV / resume and networking to possibly starting our own business.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed an order setting up a council focused on growing the state’s economy.
Despite the improving economy, many people in New Jersey will be looking for work very soon. Oyster Creek Nuclear Plan also plans to close
Let’s face it, we’ve all worked with someone that just wasn’t a good fit for the position they were hired for. And the plague of bad hires is a pretty big problem in the U.S. In a Robert Half survey released in March, 81 percent of small and midsize managers business owners said they’d made a bad hiring decision. And once the bad hire is made, it takes companies nearly 17 weeks to fix the mistake.
