Original Article: Getting A Job, It Is About Who You Know Referrals are “your way in the back door to companies,” said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm. “Everybody is trying to barge through the front door, sending a resume out,...
Published on: Sep 20, 2013 Original Article: Don't Ignore These Five Signs of Impending Layoffs "It's true that when you watch your co-workers get pink-slipped one after the other, it takes a huge hit to your confidence and career security. [But] it does not necessarily mean you're next,...
Published on: Sep 18, 2013 Employers’ need for talent may, in fact, be helping to boost relocation. In a small sampling of approximately 50 human resources executives by Challenger, nearly 40 percent indicated that their company actively recruits potential candidates from outside the local area due to...
Published on: Sep 12, 2013 The firing this week of Pax Dickinson, the chief technology officer of online news site Business Insider, for comments he made on Twitter, should serve as a powerful reminder that social media should be treated with great care. “Social media sites like Twitter,...
Published on: Sep 11, 2013 Turnover among the nation’s chief executive officers remained elevated in August as 113 planned CEO departures were reported, including notable retirement announcements from Steve Ballmer at Microsoft and John Surma at U.S. Steel Corp. While the 113 departures recorded in August is above...
Published on: Sep 10, 2013 As Time Warner and IBM join the growing list of companies that plan to stop offering health insurance benefits to retirees, one workplace expert suggests that the moves are simply the first steps in eliminating health insurance from the corporate balance sheet...
Published on: Sep 5, 2013 Monthly job cuts surged to the highest level since February, as U.S.-based employers announced plans in August to slash payrolls by 50,462, a 33.8 percent increase from the 37,701 planned job cuts announced in July, according to a report Wednesday from global...
Published on September 1, 2013 Original Article: When Stress Takes Over, Employee Burnout Can Set In John Challenger, CEO of workplace consulting company Challenger, Gray & Christmas, diagnoses burnout. He tells NPR's Jacki Lyden stress can manifest emotionally, mentally or physically. "It can be combined with doubts...
Published on: Sep 2, 2013 With the opening kick-off of the National Football League exactly one week from today, many of the estimated 25 million Americans participating in fantasy football have already completed their drafts. However, this is little solace for the nation’s employers who can expect...
Published on: Sep 2, 2013 While fantasy football could cost employers over $8B in lost productivity (based loosely on government employment data, average hourly pay, and number of fantasy players), fret not. The workplace more than benefits from the boost in morale as co-workers discuss trades, injured...
How Labor Day Has Changed Since the Great Recession of 2009 Published on: Aug 28, 2013 Monday marks the fifth Labor Day since the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009. While the number of Americans employed is still trying to get back to pre-recession levels,...
Challenger Releases Q2 2013 Relocation Report Rising Home Prices May Spur Relocations PUBLISHED August 21, 2013 The percentage of unemployed managers and executives relocating for new jobs in the first half of 2013 climbed to its highest level since the beginning of the recession, according to new data...
