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Military, police and news media top most-stressful jobs surveyATLANTA: A survey by jobs website CareerCast shows that the 10 most stressful occupations for 2014 are those of the enlisted military personnel, military general, firefighter, airline pilot, event co-ordinator, PR co-ordinator, senior corporate executive, newspaper reporter, police officer and taxi driver.迷你倉 And the least stressful? Good news for audiologists, hair stylists, jewellers, tenured professors, seamstresses and tailors, dietitians, medical records technicians, librarians, multimedia artists, and drill press operators. APUAE may intervene to boost private-sector jobs for citizensDUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to boost the number of its citizens employed in the private sector tenfold by 2021, and will intervene in the labour market if necessary to reach that goal.Fewer thamini storage 15 per cent of the UAE's roughly 9 million people are estimated to be local citizens, while more than two-thirds of UAE citizens in employment work in the public sector.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the prime minister, did not elaborate on what steps the government might take to meet the target. ReutersOECD notes dip in average jobless rate in rich countriesPARIS: Unemployment across rich countries dipped by one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.8 per cent in November last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said.The improvement was due to drops in jobless rates in Israel, South Korea Mexico, and the US. The rates were steady in the euro zone, Canada and Japan. The lowest jobless rate was in South Korea, with 2.9 per cent of the active population out of work, while it was highest in Spain at 26.7 per cent. AFP儲存