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Coronavirus-induced lockdowns forced employers to move quickly through 2020, implementing new technologies and flexible ways of working. As a result, "five years of acceleration happened in one year," said LinkedIns managing director and vice president for Asia-Pacific and China, Olivier Legrand. Now, workplaces will want proof that employees can keep up with the pace of change. Skills-based hiring ramps up Indeed, it is already happening. According to LinkedIn, more than three-quarters (77%) o...

Wisper Internet Expands Relationship with Microsoft to Include Digital Literacy Posted on Share Home » Wisper Internet Expands Relationship with Microsoft to Include Digital Literacy Wisper Internet and Microsoft have broadened the companies’ relationship in the Airband initiative to include the latter’s global skills initiaitive, which offers curated learning for subscribers in the wireless ISP’s six state footprint. Microsoft’s global skills initiative has elements from sever...

Higher education is being  dismantled by technology and further taken apart by a global pandemic. How will it be reinvented?  Much of higher education is facing a crisis. Even before the global pandemic, some 30% of our institutions were already facing serious financial difficulties. Over the last few years, declining enrollments, driven largely by demographic changes in the U.S. and rising tuition costs, together with uneven support from federal and state governments, have given rise to ...

LinkedIn users around the world have reported outages on mobile and desktop that saw API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly across the platform. The career networking site says the outage mostly affected North America and Europe. “We are currently experiencing an issue across the platform that may cause some API requests to take […]

The participation of the private and public sectors in the National Employment Council (NEC) is a strong testament to Malaysia’s collaborative commitment towards uplifting the livelihood of the rakyat by addressing unemployment challenges and focusing on skills enhancement and digitalisation

Re-envisioning the workforce: Skilling today to thrive tomorrow December 15, 2020 | Microsoft Stories Asia By Fiona Carney, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on one of the most challenging years in our lifetime – spurring a global economic crisis and severely impacting job markets. Our calculations show that global unemployment rates in 2020 may reach the staggering figure of a quarter of a billion people. At the same time...