Michael Specht

A blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment.

Job loss news continues to be bad

November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Recruitment · 1,769 views

Everywhere I turn at the moment there is more and more talk of job losses! it does not seem to matter what your industry is jobs are disappearing quicker that most news rooms can report on them. A quick round up:

Citigroup 50,000 worldwide after four quarters of heavy losses.
BHP Billiton looks like it will have [...]

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Is the IT Sector softening?

August 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Recruitment · 1,187 views

I have been interested over the last few weeks to see the varying discussions that Australia is or is not in a recession at the moment. While the jobless figures overall are not too bad at 4.3% for July 2008 (according to the ABS), there are reports of the RBA easing interest rates due to [...]

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