Leading Online Workforce Site Develops Massive Workforce Retraining Initiative
Employaid Teams with Tech Leader in Creating Online Retraining Programs.
Ridgefield, CT, January 31, 2009 --(PR.com)-- In a proactive and unprecedented response to massive job losses incurred in 2008 and projected for the remainder of 2009, Employaid founder Barbara Poole, the developer of the top workforce skills and strategies super site www.Employaid.com is partnering with famed Internet technologist and venture capital attorney Rod Underhill to develop workforce retraining initiatives to meet the challenges of vast job and industry losses.
Poole notes that although job loss is at epidemic levels right now, there will be vibrant opportunities for those individuals who can easily transition to industries that will rebuild the American infrastructure. A variety of retraining initiatives will be developed and rolled out in the coming months at the Employaid.com website, and Poole encourages concerned employees and upstanding business leaders to participate in a student role or as thought leaders, as appropriate, in this nationwide initiative. Enrollment and other details are forthcoming.
Poole indicates that the deepening economic crisis has wreaked havoc on employment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has the U.S. unemployment rate at a staggering 7.2 percent, with the specter of even more losses in the upcoming year. “This is the first time in recent memory when workers are being laid off at the same time entire industries are imploding. Recovery from the job losses could take a decade or more,” Poole says. “There is going to be a massive influx of laid off workers. No amount of extended unemployment benefits will stop the bleeding, and already overburdened yet fewer taxpayers would not be able to handle the massive additional strain. We must retrain our workforce for future jobs.”
Barbara Poole states, “This is a time like no other, and people are desperate for practical and meaningful help and guidance. The financial wounds suffered are tragic. Traditional career coaching must be supplemented by practical skills training to make prospective job candidates viable in the new economy.”
Rod Underhill comments, “Our ability as technologists, which have empowered us in the past to create swift and dramatic changes in a variety of entertainment andsoftware industries, must now be tasked to address the issues currently facing the economic sector.”
"I am lending my expertise to Employaid's ongoing development of the approaches required to better address the need for workforce skills training and worker retraining, as a result of the ever developing financial crisis,” Underhill added. “I believe we are uniquely situated to make a positive difference in a world where much uncertainty in the employment sector currently exists.”
About Barbara Poole
Barbara Poole is an entrepreneur and workforce productivity expert who has a 25-year track record in corporate human resources executive positions as well as senior executive positions for prominent management consulting and training houses, as well her own firm. She developed and launched Employaid (www.employaid.com) at a time when the workforce is in upheaval, due to the economic and market conditions in the US. The roles of employer and employee are changing. It was time to recognize the magnitude of employees' need for job survival skills, and Poole took the challenge.
About Rod Underhill
Rod Underhill made his initial splash in the technology sector when he served as a cofounder of MP3.com, an Internet business that became worth more than six billion dollars. He is the co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet" and other technology books. In 2008 he received a Webby Award, honoring his work in the mobile phone technology space. Underhill is an attorney, law professor and technologist.
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Rodger Roeser, APR
Eisen Marketing Group
859.291.4302
www.eisenmarketinggroup.com
rroeser@eisenmarketinggroup.com
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Poole notes that although job loss is at epidemic levels right now, there will be vibrant opportunities for those individuals who can easily transition to industries that will rebuild the American infrastructure. A variety of retraining initiatives will be developed and rolled out in the coming months at the Employaid.com website, and Poole encourages concerned employees and upstanding business leaders to participate in a student role or as thought leaders, as appropriate, in this nationwide initiative. Enrollment and other details are forthcoming.
Poole indicates that the deepening economic crisis has wreaked havoc on employment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has the U.S. unemployment rate at a staggering 7.2 percent, with the specter of even more losses in the upcoming year. “This is the first time in recent memory when workers are being laid off at the same time entire industries are imploding. Recovery from the job losses could take a decade or more,” Poole says. “There is going to be a massive influx of laid off workers. No amount of extended unemployment benefits will stop the bleeding, and already overburdened yet fewer taxpayers would not be able to handle the massive additional strain. We must retrain our workforce for future jobs.”
Barbara Poole states, “This is a time like no other, and people are desperate for practical and meaningful help and guidance. The financial wounds suffered are tragic. Traditional career coaching must be supplemented by practical skills training to make prospective job candidates viable in the new economy.”
Rod Underhill comments, “Our ability as technologists, which have empowered us in the past to create swift and dramatic changes in a variety of entertainment andsoftware industries, must now be tasked to address the issues currently facing the economic sector.”
"I am lending my expertise to Employaid's ongoing development of the approaches required to better address the need for workforce skills training and worker retraining, as a result of the ever developing financial crisis,” Underhill added. “I believe we are uniquely situated to make a positive difference in a world where much uncertainty in the employment sector currently exists.”
About Barbara Poole
Barbara Poole is an entrepreneur and workforce productivity expert who has a 25-year track record in corporate human resources executive positions as well as senior executive positions for prominent management consulting and training houses, as well her own firm. She developed and launched Employaid (www.employaid.com) at a time when the workforce is in upheaval, due to the economic and market conditions in the US. The roles of employer and employee are changing. It was time to recognize the magnitude of employees' need for job survival skills, and Poole took the challenge.
About Rod Underhill
Rod Underhill made his initial splash in the technology sector when he served as a cofounder of MP3.com, an Internet business that became worth more than six billion dollars. He is the co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet" and other technology books. In 2008 he received a Webby Award, honoring his work in the mobile phone technology space. Underhill is an attorney, law professor and technologist.
Media Contact:
Rodger Roeser, APR
Eisen Marketing Group
859.291.4302
www.eisenmarketinggroup.com
rroeser@eisenmarketinggroup.com
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