Was thrilled to read this news item from a caring employer in the US. A good news story hopefully to counteract the doom and gloom that pervades the news. If only there were more of them! The news item extracts are below: IDAHO FALLS – Eastern Idaho’s largest private employer made a big announcement Wednesday [...]

The term morality disengagement along with the term “tuning” refer to the act of telling of “porkies” (that’s “pork pies” meaning lies in rhyming slang for our Aussie readers). So just how many people are guilty of morality disengagement or tuning? Well according to Career Director International’s Mega Trends Report of 2008, research shows that [...]

New York Times Article here: Interesting article in the New York Times today how Web 2.0 has made it into the realm of announcing staff cutbacks. In the past, press releases announced job layoffs, but now, the company blog is seen as a way to release information without disgruntled or redundant workers getting in the [...]

Today’s Financial Review today indicates that a recorded 22.8% drop in IT job ads in the last 12 months, seems to give credence that the global financial meltdown has and will continue to significantly and negatively impact staff recruitment in IT as employers look to tighten belts and cut costs through greater permanent staff utilisation [...]

In the past couple of months, I’ve had several senior executive clients who have been offered and have rejected, outplacement services from their former employers. Heading the list of criticisms seems to be that these services are far from individually tailored with all participants given the same job search and positioning information. Clearly this cookie-cutter, [...]

Today’s news brings us the story of 13 Virgin employees from Britain sacked due to inappropriate discussion about their employer and the customers they serve. Article here  Treated right, there is nothing more beneficial to your career than effective networking. It opens doors, bypasses HR departments and gets you recommendations that you never can get [...]