thehtgroup.com

There are many ways for a potential employer to discover the truth about how the job ended, so don’t pretend you quit or that you were laid off for reasons outside your control (if that’s not the case). If you’re on talking terms with your former employer, discuss it with them and come to an agreement on how you’ll both explain the situation if asked. If you didn’t leave on good terms and are afraid of what your previous employer might say, you could work with a recruiter to determine how to proceed. Take some time to prepare your answer and practice it with a friend or recruiter and you might be surprised how easily it can become a non-issue for the right employer.

The proposal raises the salary threshold for fulltime workers eligible for overtime pay from $455 per week to $679 per week (which is a salary of $35,308). The proposal increases the total annual compensation requirement for highly compensated employees (HCE) from the currently-enforced level of $100,000 to $147,414 per year. * There are no changes to the job duties test and no changes in overtime protections for police officers, firefighters, paramedics, nurses, non-management production-line laborers or other non-management workers in maintenance, construction, and similar occupations. Tammy McCutchen, an attorney with Littler in Washington, D. C., told attendees at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Employment Law & Legislative Conference that the DOL may give employers little time to bring their pay practices into compliance because it may push to have the final rule in place before the 2020 election.

This article by Jobscan offers advice on how to match experience in past roles to present tense keywords, like changing “managed a team of 15 engineers” to “brought in to manage a team of 15 engineers” to match the present tense of “manage. As interview expert Laura DeCarlo explains, “The employer can request a video from a job seeker, and the job seeker answers pre-scripted interview questions usually by a specific date that is the deadline for the interview. ” DeCarlo offers tips useful for any video or phone interview—automated or not—including following any provided instructions carefully, not being late/missing the deadline, dressing and grooming yourself professionally, choosing a good location with proper lighting and no distractions, looking directly at the camera (not the screen), and practicing your answers ahead of time. If you work with a recruiter, find out how each employer handles their vetting process and if tools like ATS are involved.

To get a better idea of where these skills gaps are, let’s take a look at two areas experiencing some of the biggest labor deficiencies: machine learning and manufacturing. Blue-collar jobs across the board are suffering from labor shortages, due to both small communities with newly booming industrial activity and from skills gaps among the skilled labor workforce. A 2018 report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute projects as many as 2.4 million unfilled manufacturing jobs nationwide by 2028. Some predicted AI and robotics would take jobs away from manufacturing workers, but Deloitte notes the opposite effect: More jobs are being created (and those jobs aren’t being filled).