plus 2, New careers envisioned as jobs go green - Burlington County Times

New careers envisioned as jobs go green - Burlington County Times
Careers: Recession gives birth to 'job-job,' 'fakations' - Lansing State Journal
Job.com to Give Away Over $5 Million in Recruitment Services at 2010 SHRM Annual ... - PR Inside

New careers envisioned as jobs go green - Burlington County Times

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:16 AM PDT

"People don't realize there are going to be careers we can't talk about yet, because the technology hasn't been invented," said Carol McClelland, an author and founder of Green Career Central.

Over the next two years, more than $80 billion in economic stimulus funds will go to clean energy projects, investments that will create thousands of green jobs.

Those green jobs, experts say, are among the fastest growing sector of the workforce, and will help pull the nation out of its economic slump.

"It's a game-changer," said Carol McClelland, an author and founder of Green Career Central, an online jobs board for green jobs. "People don't realize there are going to be careers we can't talk about yet, because the technology hasn't been invented. This is a huge shift. It's a transformation on how we live and do business."

The Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board has named green jobs to its list of the 30 fastest growing careers in the Delaware Valley. More than 5,000 new green jobs are expected over the next five years in this area alone, said board CEO Sallie Glickman.

"Those are new jobs, new categories that have emerged, like chief sustainability officers and biofuels processing technician, energy auditors, which is something that's been around for a while, industrial ecologists, recycling coordinators," Glickman said. "It's across the map."

In Hatfield Township, for example, Jaco Environmental has added 40 new green jobs at an appliance recycling center. Those employees will deconstruct used refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners collected through a joint program with utility providers Peco and PP&L. Components that can be recycled will be; other parts will go for scrap.

While government considers a green job as one that's involved in the production of green technologies, products or practices, some other people take a broader view.

"Some jobs + are specifically focused on green industries, like wind power, solar, renewable energy," said Jeana Wirtenberg, president and CEO of Transitioning to Green, a consulting organization. "That's only a narrow piece of it. As we go through the next decade, every industry will be going green. The companies that are not are going to go out of business. They won't be sustainable."

Sustainability is driving GE Water Process & Technologies, a General Electric division headquartered in Bensalem.

"A significant part of what we do is working with our clients to help them meet environmental and regulatory challenges of the future," said chief sustainability officer Jeff Fulgham. "A lot of what we do is all about green."

GE Water works with about 50,000 customers around the world to help them improve sustainability when it comes to water consumption, Fulgham said. But the division is also helping the entire company by monitoring water use at all 7,000 GE sites around the world.

"Probably 80 percent to 90 percent of the products that we are developing today are all 100 percent in that green space," Fulgham said. "They're ideas to help our customers reduce water, energy and waste."

Being a green company also helps recruit new employees, he said.

"As we look at candidates, that's a huge driver for them," he said. "They are absolutely focused on green roles. One of the reasons they want to come to work for us is they see this as a way to make an impact on the world. It's not just about making a buck. They want to have a positive impact on the environment. Those green roles, they pretty much have a direct impact on the environment."

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Careers: Recession gives birth to 'job-job,' 'fakations' - Lansing State Journal

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:54 AM PDT

Pay cuts, pay freezes and job losses have in the last 2 1/2 years sent a lot more people scrounging for coupons and other cost-saving deals.

Someone pointed me to www.couponsherpa.com - clever name, that - which carries a load of online coupon information. The site also provides links to articles, and I happened on this one a while ago:

"25 Recessionista Slang Terms You Need To Know."

I occasionally write columns blasting business buzzwords, those irritating words that pepper the workplace. Sadly, I admit defeat in the war against many of them.

Paradigm, synergy, actionable and change catalyst appear destined to plague us forever, without telling listeners much about what the speaker intends to convey other than the ability to spout multiple syllables that sound important.

So let's take a fun foray instead into words born from double-digit unemployment and wage stagnation. They're not buzzwords yet, but they have a dose of cleverness that suggests longevity.

By now, everyone's heard of staycations - when you can't afford an out-of-town trip. And the notion of permatemping has entered the vernacular; there's even labor law about it.

But did you know that you can be decruited when a job offer is withdrawn before you've begun to work?

That's as opposed to getting a job-job - new lingo for a "real" job - full time, with benefits.

Some applicants are having trouble landing job-jobs because they have job stoppers - tattoos, piercings, purple hair or whatever a prospective employer finds objectionable.

Those of us who have jobs but may be required to take unpaid furloughs have a new way to describe the time off: We're taking fakations.

At least that gives us freedom to surf the Web for recession porn. Keep your clothes on: That's the term for an obsession with blogs, articles, charts and graphs about the economic downturn.

The economy has been looking up, though, and consumer spending has grown - which potentially means more moneymoons - the "period between making a purchase and the onset of buyer's remorse."

Better we should all be frugalistas and be careful spenders in the first place.

Diane Stafford is the workplace and careers columnist at The Kansas City Star.

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Job.com to Give Away Over $5 Million in Recruitment Services at 2010 SHRM Annual ... - PR Inside

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:19 AM PDT

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Job.com, the fastest growing career portal on the Internet, will be giving away over $5 million in free recruitment services at the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in San Diego, California.

As part of a new campaign aimed at putting America back to work, Job.com will be offering a free Platinum month of service, retailing at $699, to any 2010

SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition attendee who visits the Job.com booth #2750 and takes a short demo of Job.com's Hiring Solutions. The Platinum package is Job.com's most premium level package which includes 25 priority ranked job posting slots and access to its nationwide database of over seven million active resumes.

"Finding ways to hire great people while reducing recruiting costs is at the forefront of every hiring manager's mind," said Brian Alden, CEO of Job.com. "[But] in the meantime there are millions of Americans who are out of work and waiting to be hired by a great company and placed in to a role where they can contribute to the success of a growing organization." Alden continued, "That's why we've decided to help put America back to work by giving away a free month of our highest level of recruitment service to any employer who comes to our booth at SHRM [2010 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition]."

Job.com's "Putting America Back to Work" campaign is created with the intent to introduce the nation's employers to over 22 million Job.com members looking for new employment opportunities. The campaign kicks off at the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in San Diego, California where Job.com will be hosting a variety of activities in their booth exhibit #2750. The conference will be held June 27th through the 30th at the San Diego Convention Center. To request a free demo of Job.com's employer and recruiter Hiring Solutions now, sign up at employer.job.com/load.job/us=3198/ : .

About Job.com

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated chapters within the United States and subsidiary offices in China and India.

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