Global Information Technology
ISSUE
01
JobPrep
January 2012
The Voice of Career Insight
In this issue
Tips to improve your LinkedIn Profile
State of the Michigan Workforce P.1 Tips to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile P.1
Tip 1: Claim a customized
2012 IT Jobs Outlook P.3
URL (e.g., www.linkedin.com/
What Kills Productivity P.4
in/YOURNAME) and insert this link into your email signature to drive your existing and newly forming network to view your profile.
Michigan Gov. Snyder unveils new initiative to remake workforce! Gov. Rick Snyder wants to tie retraining programs to
companies' needs, erase barriers keeping welfare recipients from work and encourage more Michigan residents to
Tip 2: Edit public profile settings during a job search to show headline, summary, specialties, current and past positions, and education to those outside your connections. Employers will be searching your name online, and you want them to find a content-rich page.
earn math and science degrees under an initiative aimed at making workers more competitive in the global marketplace.
such as privacy (including your activity feed broadcasts), email digest preferences, and group displays.
Delta College, the fifth in a series of policy addresses this year that have covered education, local government, health and infrastructure.
completion.
content: do not write anything that you do not want the world to know.
Michigan. Snyder said that the current imbalance
work in Michigan, is saddled with debt and is ultimately forced to leave the state." The Michigan Education Association has estimated
education programs in Michigan leave the state. The
main empty because Michigan workers don't have the education or skills
must drastically realign its education, job training and economic development systems. Only then will
governor wants more people to get
The governor wants more people to get trained in computer programming, math, health care and engineering
the state be able to drastically lower an unemployment rate that has hovered in double digits
"The solution is to reinvent the way in which we prepare our children for successful, fulfilling careers; reshape the manner in which Michiganders look for work; and redesign
Tip 5: Be judicious about
graduates in areas where workers aren't needed in
that 5,000 of the 7,500 annual graduates of college
Noting that Michigan has "thousands of jobs" that re-
for more than two years. Tip 4: Fill out profile to 100%
areas that are in demand and stop "overproducing"
"creates a population of young talent that cannot find
He unveiled his talent development plan Thursday at
to fill them, Snyder said the state Tip 3: Manage other settings,
centrate state money for post-secondary education in
the way in which employers obtain the skills they need," Snyder noted in his speech. "The simple truth is that tomorrow's opportunities cannot be realized with yesterday's skills." On education, the Republican governor wants to con-
trained in computer
program-
ming, math, health care and engineering -- all areas where the state isn't producing enough graduates to fill the need, according to the Center.
To help retain talent, the governor wants to change the unemployment system so that struggling businesses can reduce their employees' hours and supplement their pay with partial unemployment benefits. The change would let employers hold onto highly skilled workers who otherwise might leave the state to work elsewhere and enable workers keep their jobs and fringe benefits. The governor also wants lawmakers
to
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