Job cut announcements surged to their highest level in nearly two years, as falling oil prices prompted cost-cutting efforts in energy and related industries. In all, U.S.-based employers announced plans to shed 53,041 jobs from their payrolls to start 2015; with 40 percent of...
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More Callers Long-Term Unemployed, Underemployed CONFIDENCE REMAINS FLAT; AGE BIAS A FEAR Published January 27, 2015 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500"] Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.[/caption] As President Obama lauded the state of the economy and growth of the job market during last week’s State of the Union address,...
Original Article: http://fortune.com/2015/01/23/energy-department-announces-council-on-job...
The falling price of oil, now at under $50 a barrel for the first time since 2009, has caused a spate of layoff announcements impacting thousands of workers in oil-related industries, according to a tally recorded by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc....
Published on: Jan 22, 2015 Original Article: http://www.thestreet.com/story/13018592/1/11-biggest-ceo-exits-in-2014-i...
While the number of overall job cuts declined in 2014 to the lowest level since 1997, planned workforce reductions in the technology sector trended in the opposite direction, rising to the largest year-end total since 2009. Employers in the technology sector announced a total of 100,757...
Published on: Jan 14, 2015 Turnover among the nation’s chief executive officers reached a six-year high in 2014, as 1,341 vacated their posts during the year, according to the year-end report on announced CEO departures released Wednesday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. The 2014...
Published January 12, 2015 After a record-breaking hiring spree in October, seasonal employment gains in retail fizzled in November and December, with employers adding 23,000 fewer workers than during the same two-month period a year earlier. To make matters worse, it appears that several retailers are...
Job cuts declined for a second consecutive month in December, as U.S.-based employers announced plans to reduce payrolls by 32,640. It was the third lowest monthly total of 2014; a year that saw the fewest planned job cuts since 1997, according to the report...
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Original Article: http://time.com/money/3650434/job-hunt-strategies-new-year/ "You’ll be especially attractive if you have expertise in hard-to-fill positions. More than three-quarters of human resource executives polled by Challenger Gray & Christmas report they are struggling to fill open positions, and 91% say that if the economy keeps expanding at its...
