Here’s our weekly dose of the highs and lows in the recruiting world(most of them are lows though!)
The craziest yahoo layoff stories….
Job cuts at Trail King……..
A Database of Californian companies forecasting job cuts!
The eye in the sky, CBS, starts thier round of job cuts…
Thats it for the day!
Everywhere we turn, it’s gloom and doom. And now it’s Tech’s turn.
“After a lull around Thanksgiving, December has seen some of the biggest layoffs in the tech industry yet since the economy entered its tailspin in the fall. Our Layoff Tracker is now past 100,000 lost jobs (109,629, as of this writing) across nearly 300 different technology and media companies both large and small.”
Read full article on http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/12/tech-layoffs-surge-past-100000/
Hundreds of jobs have been cut at a company that is supposed to help people find jobs.
Job posting Web site CareerBuilder has slashed 300 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce, according to the Chicago Tribune. The cuts were across the board, but mostly in its small business segment, the Tribune reports, citing chief marketing officer Richard Castellini.
Read more at http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/12/08/daily82.html
How the economic downturn has led to staff cutbacks at media companies…
A google map of sorts that details buyouts and job cuts in the newspaper industry…
Yahoo starts the inevitable job cuts….
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1 Million Jobs Cut Every Month by Spring 2009?
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Do check the links!
-Yasser
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