221 Quotes by John Challenger

Taking full time off to go back to graduate school once you're, say, past 28, is very costly. Yes, there's no question it enhances your value -- particularly in the big stream areas like finance, sales and marketing, engineering, health care. But you don't want to use graduate school as a deferral because you don't want to face the job market.

We ask all of our job seekers in the out- placement program to only look at the web after 6:30 at night or before maybe 6:00 in the morning, ... It is a soaker up of time and in a job search, you've got to get out and see people. You can't sit behind a desk and tinker with your resume.

Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,

There has been a remarkable reversal since last fall and winter, when we saw several consecutive months in which departures numbered over 100.

not a good indication of stronger job creation to come.

It used to be taken for granted that you wouldn't do layoffs during the holidays, but that hasn't been the case for at least several years.

Trust your instincts, and talk with people in the organization and people in the industry,

The world is not the same as it used to be. Companies pay for skills in an era where brains are more important than brawn, and the forces of automation, globalization, deregulation and competition have changed what this kind of work is worth in the world.

The question will be how do you share resources?