8 Tell-Tale Signs That You will be the Next to Go!

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Fol­low­ing our check­list to find out if you will be a poten­tial staff to be axed or the like­li­hood of being axed, we have a set of indi­ca­tors that will tell you if you will be the next few to clear your desk!  Fret not!  It’s not the end of the world if there are signs here and there warn­ing you of this impend­ing dan­ger!  Most of the time, when you observe such sig­nals occur­ring to you, it’s mostly too late.  You can at least make some prepa­ra­tion with this final amount of time you have in the office to reduce the “dam­age”… Read the rest of this entry »

Ready for Another Recession (and Retrenchment)?

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Yes, we know the reces­sion is (almost) over.  Some ana­lysts said that we are recov­er­ing but of course, not all of them are in-sync with the same sen­ti­ment.  Employ­ment and con­sumer sta­tis­tics are still hov­er­ing at pre-good time level and we may not see the “light” soon (yet).  But beyond the dis­cus­sion of mar­ket and econ­omy and the fat pay cheques the Wall Street CEOs are get­ting, will there be another reces­sion (most likely yes)?  If it does hap­pen again in your life time, will you be able to sur­vive pos­si­ble retrench­ment? Read the rest of this entry »