We are no longer seeing the blockbuster cuts in the tens of thousands that cause big headlines, ... Instead, we are seeing cuts of 2,500 (to) 5,000. While most announcements of that size do not get a lot of media coverage, those are the ones that give us (big) figures such as those in March. |
We are seeing more job cuts from well-known, brand-name companies. The mom-and-pop category seemed to dominate the earlier waves of dot.com cuts. |
We ask all of our job seekers in the out- placement program to only look at the web after 6:30 at night or before maybe 6:00 in the morning, ... It is a soaker up of time and in a job search, you've got to get out and see people. You can't sit behind a desk and tinker with your resume. |
We ask all of our job seekers in the out- placement program to only look at the web after 6:30 at night or before maybe 6:00 in the morning. It is a soaker up of time and in a job search, you've got to get out and see people. You can't sit behind a desk and tinker with your resume. |
We certainly are not out of the woods yet, ... Last year at this time, declines in November and December gave way to [a] more than 86,000 job-cut surge in January. |
We have already seen a couple of large deals announced this year, one of which expected as many as 10,000 job cuts to take place as redundant positions are eliminated, ... This could be a big year for such transactions. |
We may now have moved into the second half of a slowdown, ... because these big layoffs have begun to appear more regularly. |
We may well have reached the peak of the economic cycle earlier in the year. |
We never concentrate on one task anymore. You take a little chip out of it, and then you're on to the next thing. It's harder to feel like you're accomplishing something. |
We now see more and more of these Old Economy-New Economy hybrids cutting their online staffs, ... Companies that were hoping, if not expecting to eventually shift the lion's share of their business to the Internet may be forced to consider entirely new strategies for both short term and long term. |
We personally heard desperation in the voices of callers to our firm, ... On an average, callers thought it would take at least five and a half months to become re-employed. |
We see the same thing with job titles. People feel like the company didn't appreciate them or the job they did deserved a higher title, so they change the title. |
We should not get euphoric over the May drop in job-cut announcements, |
We typically see higher job cuts in January as companies set into motion business plans and employment needs for the new year. |
We were seeing daily announcements of the demise of CEOs in a way that seemed to stand out. |