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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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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It's a sign of company maturation as it begins to focus on its core areas.
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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.
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The world is not the same as it used to be. Companies pay for skills in an era where brains are more important than brawn, and the forces of automation, globalization, deregulation and competition have changed what this kind of work is worth in the world.
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They are often geared at workers whose skills are obsolescent, out-of-date or minimal, especially if their skills seem to be in a condition that they may have a hard time finding a job.
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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 accelerating right now. I don't think we're near the end of it,
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It's a good sign in the face of all these tech cuts, ... I'll bet they can really access great talent right now. To bring that many people into the company when pickings are really good, it should be a real lift for the company.
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There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.
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There are thousands of co-heads, chiefs and directors now. You don't know if they are top people or are buried in middle management somewhere.