Businesses have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown. It’s pretty common to hear about companies choosing to lay their talented workers off just to survive during recessions. And that is exactly what we’re in, a recession. But that is going to cause a swing motion, whereby we go from not […]
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Are you afraid of losing your job?Many people are, as uncertainty is common amongst today’s workforce. As seen in this article, there are many reasons why some of us are fearful of becoming unemployed, including the chances of recession, redundancies caused by robot takeovers, and management changes in the companies we work within. And as we
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If I can help just one person to avoid being ripped off, this post serves its purpose
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Many parts of the world regularly suffer from drought and famine. People and wildlife seem to adapt well (as a matter of course) to what is a cyclical phenomenon.So is economic recession.
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I’d be lying if I said the recession isn’t a stressful time for many folks, or that it doesn’t cause us to go about our business with some ‘unusual behaviors’. There are things that we can do that won’t help our situation, even though it might feel a relief at the time. Below, you’ll see
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Recession is as certain as death and taxes (I wish taxis were as certain on a cold winter’s night at 3am!). And guess what – so is the upturn. But who is talking about it yet?Good News people: according to McKinsey’s Quarterly Survey , we are getting close to the bottom of the trough we
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Here are 7 things to do to turn your situation around and get yourself right back into employment
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Yesterday I offered a challenge I really don’t want you to accept: How Far Can You Drive Your IT Department Into The Ground? There are some pretty dumb things you can do to bring your IT department to its knees. OK – now I know what NOT to do, what instead should I be thinking
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If you’re feeling like your future is uncertain and your job could disappear at any moment, then you’re probably feeling pretty gloomy. If you watch the constant flood of media alerts on businesses closing and layoffs happening left, right and center, then it’s easy to fall into a trap of the self-fulfilling prophecy: folks who
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InformationWeek just announced the ‘Top Ten CIO Issues for 2009 ‘ and I was wondering why ‘Staying Employed’ didn’t feature on the list!If you believed everything you read in the newspapers or watched on TV, then we’ll all be out of work in 3 months. The economy will grind to a halt, so we’ll all
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