Train-the-Trainer Tips, Tools and News

TV Trainer has developed a new way to train basic skills and job expectations to the Hispanic community: a system that only requires a television and DVD player. According to the company’s website, “Many Latinos base their understanding of American business on what they see in Mexico. They frequently experience difficulty adapting to common business practices in the US.” The website also claims that Latino employees using TV Trainer train faster, assume more responsibility, become longer-term employees, and recruit more employee candidates because friends and family also see the training as they wander through the living room.

In related technology, scribestudio.com offers Web TV, a step-above-webinar format which is easier to log onto and more interactive. Using a password and username, viewers are able to watch training “shows” which also allow viewers to ask questions via their computers. The same tools available to users of ScribeStudio's online toolkit for designing e-learning, were used to power Web TV, said Peter Cervieri, director of business development at ScribeStudio , so any other company could do a simple Web TV of their own as well.

 

CareerJournal.com Rates Best Careers: Are You on It?

CareerJournal.com set out to find the best careers based on what career-minded people wanted in a job in conjunction with Harris Polling. The top four attributes cited most often were: good intellectual stimulation, strong job security, high level of control and freedom in what to do, and extensive direct contact with customers/clients. The top careers? Of the eight listed were curriculum and instructional coordinators, high-school special-education teachers and management consultants and analysts.

 

New Hire Compensation On the Rise

Compensation for newly hired employees may be on the increase, according to the October report of the Leading Indicator of National Employment (LINE), which finds new-hire compensation jumped in September.  In addition, over half of manufacturers and service-sector employers plan to expand hiring in October, indicating that the job market continues to remain strong.

The indicator reports on four employment measures: job expectations, job vacancies, new-hire compensation and recruitment difficulty. Fifty-one percent of service-sector employers reported plans to increase hiring in October. In addition, while HR professionals are expressing difficulty recruiting qualified candidates, they are at the same time finding themselves with a growing number of vacant positions they are actively trying to fill. In September, this combination resulted in a five percent jump in the number of employers reporting increases to new-hire compensation. 

 LINE is an economic indicator that identifies early economic trends and changes in the national job market by surveying hu man resource (HR) executives at manufacturing and service-sector firms. 

 

 

To Coin a Phrase

This year marks the bicentennial of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. New words that will be appearing this year include: mouse potato, ringtone, spyware, avian influenza, drama queen, unibrow, and big-box. Back in 1806, Noah Webster produced his first dictionary. The small volume, which had tiny print, included 37,000 words, including many in common use but not listed in any other dictionary. Some of those words to first appear in a dictionary were: chowder, whiskey, Americanize and demoralize.

http://www.merriamwebster.com/info/new_words.htm

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