Government News

August 2010: New Jobless Claims Up Sharply As Layoffs Persist

August 2010: New Jobless Claims Up Sharply As Layoffs Persist

WASHINGTON — The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped last week after three straight declines, another sign that the pace...

August 10 2010 / Read More »

HR Department

Compensation Projections for 2011 Show Modest Increase

Compensation Projections for 2011 Show Modest Increase

Confernce Board, July 13, 2010…U.S. salary increase budgets remain historically low, but projections for 2011 show a modest increase, according to The Conference Board...

Jul 25, 2010 / Read More »

Education & Training

Feds Issue Preliminary Health IT Occupational Information to Support National Community College Training

Feds Issue Preliminary Health IT Occupational Information to Support National Community College Training

  As the 70 community colleges gear up for meetings in August to train their faculty to start training students to support Electronic Health Records...

Jul 25, 2010 / Read More »

Workforce Development

Job Training Cuts Are Among Targets of Planned Federal Budget Freeze

Job Training Cuts Are Among Targets of Planned Federal Budget Freeze

Following up on a pledge to freeze spending unrelated to national security over the next three years, the White House is asking federal agencies...

Jun 29, 2010 / Read More »

Job Search Resources

Winning an Employer Over: How Community Colleges Are Meeting the Challenge

Winning an Employer Over: How Community Colleges Are Meeting the Challenge

Stand Out: To Get the Job Offer– Community Colleges have stepped up to the challenges of the economy and helped millions retrain for better...

Jul 7, 2010 / Read More »

Industry News

Electronic Health Records Agencies Now Have Definitive Meaningful Use Guidlines

Electronic Health Records Agencies Now Have Definitive Meaningful Use Guidlines

Regional extension centers are gearing up fast to help healthcare providers quickly get up to speed on the newly released final rule on meaningful...

Jul 17, 2010 / Read More »

Health IT

HHS to Spend $144M to Train Health IT Workers

HHS to Spend $144M to Train Health IT Workers

  Beginning this fall, more than 80 community colleges and universities in the U.S. will begin training health care IT workers under a government...

Jul 20, 2010 / Read More »

Associations

Featured Workforce Development Association: NAWB

Featured Workforce Development Association: NAWB

     NetAssets reviews important workforce development associations representing government, public agencies, community based agences, HR professionals, educational institutions, and related non-profits. Today we feature the National...

Jun 1, 2010 / Read More »

LMI

Staffing Employment Posts Dramatic Growth in Second Quarter–Results of Second Quarter Employment and Sales Survey

Staffing Employment Posts Dramatic Growth in Second Quarter–Results of Second Quarter Employment and Sales Survey

U.S. staffing companies reported strong growth in the number of temporary workers employed in the second quarter of this year, compared with the same...

Aug 24, 2010 / Read More »

Sponsors

Self-Employment: Self Help for Job Hunters

Self-Employment: Self Help for Job Hunters

    Self Help for Job Hunters–Have you ever thought, “Someday, I would like to be my own boss”? Maybe it’s time to consider hiring… yourself....

Jul 20, 2010 / Read More »

Publisher's Comments

Where Is My NetAssets? »

Where Is My NetAssets?

Dear Colleague: Have you been wondering where NetAssets has been lately? Building a new web site and electronic publication is like remodeling your house....

Jul 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Executive Appointments

Ben Williams, Sr. VP, CIO to Speak at HealthTECH Workforce Forum

Ben Williams, Sr. VP, CIO to Speak at HealthTECH Workforce Forum

Benjamin R. Williams, Senior Vice President and CIO at Catholic Healthcare West will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming San Diego HealthTECH Workforce Forum on ...

Jul 15, 2010 / Read More »

Who's Hiring

Job Aggregator for Workforce Development Professionals

Job Aggregator for Workforce Development Professionals

NetAssets regularly reviews and publishes links to associations and other web sites that feature job boards  of interest to our readers  with a  focus on workforce development...

Jun 1, 2010 / Read More »

Funding Opportunities

San Diego Workforce Partnership RFP-Health IT

San Diego Workforce Partnership RFP-Health IT

  THE SAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP IS ISSUING A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) ON JULY 19, 2010 FROM QUALIFIED RESPONDENTS FOR A WORKFORCE INTERMEDIARY FOR THE...

Jul 26, 2010 / Read More »

Funding Awards

WorkPlace, Inc. Awarded $500,000 for VETERAN PROGRAM

WorkPlace, Inc. Awarded $500,000 for VETERAN PROGRAM

Friends of the WorkPlace: We were notified today by the USDOL that we were awarded $500,000to continue our Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP) for another year. Ours...

Jun 2, 2010 / Read More »

Announcements

Announcements

Announcements

NetAssets issues periodic email announcements covering important and time sensitive webinars, conferences and forum, job openings, funding opportunities and breaking news. Below is a...

Jun 3, 2010 / Read More »

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Worst Practices

Big Scam on Campus: Local job-training course raises questions–and alarms

Big Scam on Campus: Local job-training course raises questions–and alarms

Howard Floyd, 51, got a strange call. It was from a woman who had a lead on a job for him. She told him she represented a man who owned a company that...

Jun 4, 2010 / Read More »

Calendar of Events

Featured Workforce Development and HR Conferences and Webinars

Featured Workforce Development and HR Conferences and Webinars

We encourage our readers to send information on relevant conferences, forums, events and webinars of a national interest to workforce development and HR professionals from the public and private sectors, educators and commnity...

Jun 5, 2010 / Read More »

Potpourri

Why Is This Person Important to Workforce Development?: Temple Grandin sees her autism as a gift, not a disability.

Why Is This Person Important to Workforce Development?: Temple Grandin sees her autism as a gift, not a disability.

The professor at Colorado State University, who has become a prominent animal rights activist, spoke at the recent TED Conference in California about how people’s brains work in different ways — and how...

Jun 5, 2010 / Read More »

HRMS Services

HealthTECH Workforce Forums: How Will Your WIB and Health IT  Stakeholders Benefit?

HealthTECH Workforce Forums: How Will Your WIB and Health IT Stakeholders Benefit?

The public Workforce Investment System is charged with the mission of preparing a qualified workforce to meet the business needs of its community. The $20 billion in health information technology (HIT) stimulus funding, provided...

Jun 19, 2010 / Read More »
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