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Career experts say there's not only a labor shortage in our workforce, but there's also a skills gap.

Airbnb 2020 commitment: Airbnb said it would donate a total of $500,000 to the NAACP and the Black Lives Matter Foundation. It also said it would match employee donations to both groups. The company also said that by the end of 2021, 20% of its board of directors and executive team collectively would be made up of people of color. By the end of 2025, Airbnb said, its goal is to have 20% of U.S. employees be underrepresented minorities and for 50% of global employees who identify in the gender binary to be women. Airbnb also said each member of its executive team would create and share a detai...

From past to present—this mother and daughter share their journey as a family of first and second-generation MLTers.

Friday, 14 May 2021, 12:56 pm It wasn’t your ordinary Wednesday, at least not for UCOL lecturer Airini Beautrais. At the New Zealand Ockham Book Awards it was announced that Beautrais has won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction – the country’s most prestigious literary fiction award, coming with a $57,000 prize. Beautrais won for her collection of short stories ‘ Bug Week’, which judges described as “a tightly-wound and remarkably assured collection”. The win has been viewed as something of an industry upset, especially given that Beautrais was a first time nominee, and i...

Where can a job seeker, career builder and small business owner go for help? The library, of course.