John Challenger
John Challenger
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, with headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois, is the oldest executive outplacement firm in the US. It has offices throughout North America...
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The best security people can't just deal with threats; they have to anticipate them, too.
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The average search time for executives earning over $100,000 is about a month longer than other wage earners in the same community.
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Take a course in anything, it really doesn't matter what it is.
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Taking full time off to go back to graduate school once you're, say, past 28, is very costly. Yes, there's no question it enhances your value -- particularly in the big stream areas like finance, sales and marketing, engineering, health care. But you don't want to use graduate school as a deferral because you don't want to face the job market.
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Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,
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It's a sign of company maturation as it begins to focus on its core areas.
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It's novel enough that some problems haven't manifested themselves yet. Inevitably, it creates problems. It does create tensions in the workplace.
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It's taken the company losing $10 billion for the jam to begin to break.
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It just means the office is fully utilized.
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It's also important to give folks a way they can air their concerns. Have an open environment where people can say what they really think,
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It may seem as if the light at the end of the economic recovery tunnel keeps getting farther away, but our research has shown that there are opportunities for the growing numbers of Americans who suddenly find themselves unemployed,
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It's going to be hard to replace packages that were about $67 an hour when you added in pensions and health-care benefits.
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not a good indication of stronger job creation to come.
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It used to be taken for granted that you wouldn't do layoffs during the holidays, but that hasn't been the case for at least several years.