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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Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,
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As people move around in their careers, they look for new opportunities where they can manage people. Sometimes building more structure into a company, like Microsoft has, can give employees more room to grow.
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People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.
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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.
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The biggest factor pushing tech job cuts to a five-quarter high was a surge in corporate combinations in the telecom sector, which resulted in over 3,000 job cuts in February.
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The best way to get a summer job is to start now, if you haven't started already.
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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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The field is continually changing, and some companies feel like they're constantly under siege. It takes a special kind of individual just to walk into that, much less take control of it.
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The fallout from these mergers is often measured in jobs as the combined entity cuts overlapping positions and sheds workers in an effort to maintain profit margins.
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The fallout from all of this will likely continue on in December and January with more dot.com closures and job cut announcements,
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The cost may end up being much higher since it will now be possible to watch entire games on the Internet.
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If job cuts in the auto industry continue and we start to see consistently high job-cut numbers from the top three job cutters in July, it should set off some relatively loud alarm bells about the state of the job market and economy.
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not a good indication of stronger job creation to come.