Fremont’s industrial boom, a new look at the Warriors Arena, East Bay mall fills up and more in this week’s real estate digest https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/04/30/fremonts-industrial-warriors-sf-arena-cre-digest.html via @SFBusinessTimes
Skills Gap in Translation
Skills Gap:
A potential employee does not have the required skills and experience for the position up for hire.
Translation:
An esoteric software program or process that was not widely adopted until about a year ago when some managers heard about it at an over priced industry convention.
The employee is expected to have 3 – 5 years of experience with the program or process that did not exist 2 years ago and the company will not train the potential new hire.
Skills Gap, The Translation
Skills Gap:
A potential employee does not the required skills and experience for the position up for hire.
Translation:
An esoteric software program or process that was not widely adopted until about a year ago when some managers heard about it at an over priced industry convention.
The employee is expected to have 3 – 5 years of experience with the program or process that did not exist 2 years ago and the company will not train the potential new hire.
FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ Scam https://www.theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-american-dream-scam-1822834360 via @theonion
Ndamukong Suh on athletes’ taxes: ‘We’re hit very heavily’ https://sports.yahoo.com/ndamukong-suh-athletes-taxes-hit-heavily-181251446.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw via @YahooSports
In California, liberals are fighting liberals over scarce housing and development https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-s-housing-crunch-has-turned-liberals-against-one-another-n851401 via @nbcnews
<<Hanlon, of Yimby, called his group a growing force, saying it’s adding members even in outlying communities like Eureka, on California’s North Coast. The Yimbies say they are tired of being demonized for wanting something that approached what their parents generation had. Hanlon’s father, a postal worker, could afford to buy a home. But even with two master’s degrees, Hanlon said he is not even close to that dream.
“I would argue our generation’s inability to afford housing is not some moral failure or some lack of effort,” Hanlon said. “It’s the result of a dysfunctional system, and it’s dysfunctional because the older generation made it that way.”>>
Why are two of the biggest players in commercial estate getting their stocks hammered? #commercialrealestate
Nokia 8110 4G reboots the phone from ‘The Matrix’. Woah http://cnet.co/2ETBNc4 via @CNET
Nokia 8110 4G reboots the phone from ‘The Matrix’. Woah http://cnet.co/2ETBNc4 via @CNET
American small businesses are super bullish on the U.S. economy, JP Morgan study says https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-small-businesses-super-bullish-u-s-economy-jp-morgan-study-says-130006035.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw via @YahooFinance
“The firm defines medium-sized businesses as those with $20-$500 million in annual revenue; small businesses are those with $100,000-$20 million in annual revenue.”
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