Education & Workforce

Skills can be a better indicator of job performance than education or job titles

Hiring has been a struggle for small businesses in recent months, but changing your business’s approach to talent management to focus directly on candidates’ skills could help change the tide, Inc. reports.  

Ochsner plans to lay off nearly 800 employees 

Ochsner Health is planning to lay off nearly 800 employees across Louisiana and Mississippi, WAFB-TV reports. 

AI technology might create more jobs than it replaces 

Are you concerned that advancements in artificial intelligence will replace employees?  

Small business confidence falls to lowest level in a decade 

As small business owners face increasing economic pressures, their overall outlook is bordering on...

Employees are losing patience with workplace changes 

In 2022, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes—such as a restructuring to...

Lack of available child care is holding companies and employees back 

More companies that rely on hourly shift workers are trying to fix the child...
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LSU’s Angel Reese becomes ‘Sports Illustrated’ swimsuit model  

LSU women’s basketball forward Angel Reese, who guided the team to its first national championship is joining LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

LSU joins the ‘pigdemic’ fight

LSU is moving into controlled field trials of a patent-pending bait to address wild, invasive pigs that are causing millions in damage to Louisiana farms. 

Why the labor shortage might stick around for a while 

The shortage of workers that has been plagueing businesses across multiple industries for months on end might become a new normal, Axios reports. 

Pilot program in Baton Rouge targets hard-to-fill medical assistant jobs

With the health care industry facing a worsening shortage of trained workers, Propel America and The College of Health Care Professions are partnering to launch a tuition-free pilot program in Baton Rouge to train workers for in-demand medical field jobs. Â