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January 14 – “Re-Tension in the Global Recovery” breakfast seminar
June 2 – Breakfast seminar on leadership featuring William Weldon, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson
Editor in Chief:
Joan Caruso
Writer:
Catherine Carlozzi
Designer:
Loan Tran
If you have questions or comments on this month's issue, send your feedback to loan.tran@ayers.com
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President's Letter
Re-Tension in the Global Recovery
 There’s good news: the recovery is gathering steam.
The economy is showing robust growth: 7.2% in the third quarter. The stock market is soaring. Profits are rising. M&A activity is picking up, along with corporate IT spending and investment. We’ve seen three straight months of job gains, with the latest being almost twice as large as expected and all in the service sector. The mood is lifting. And as you’ll see throughout this issue of the Ayers Report, the signs have begun to appear in our marketplace. Recruitment and IT consulting are up—here and abroad.
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Ayers Establishes Transatlantic Operations With Office in London
With the opening of an office in London in November, The Ayers Group makes its official entry into the global marketplace.
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Staffing/IT Consulting—The Comeback Continues
The hiring market has picked up dramatically, according to the President of Staffing Services at The Ayers Group. “The mood is optimistic,” says Bob Deissig. “Many major financial services companies are beginning to open up. Our existing clients are becoming more active, and we continue to pick up new ones. Clients are moving projects from 2004 into 2003. They’re hiring at the junior and intermediate as well as senior levels. And for the first time in a long time, they’re being allowed to replace employees who leave—all encouraging signs.”
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Keeping Networking Skills Honed
In a job market where networking accounts for more than 90 percent of all successful landings, it is critical for job seekers to keep their networking skills sharp. But with searches extending over prolonged time periods, maintaining an edge can be tough. The Ayers Report asked Terry Ebert, Managing Director of Career Transition Services, about a few of the most common networking pitfalls he has observed and how to avoid them.
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Ayers and CPI Introduce CareerAdvantage Online Resource
CareerAdvantage—the CPI Career Business and Intelligence Portal developed by Career Partners International and TrueAdvantage—is now available to candidates in Ayers outplacement programs.
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Ayers Professionals Share Expertise
As part of The Ayers Group’s commitment to the community at large, the firm’s professionals share their knowledge and expertise with students, job seekers, client constituencies, and others through a variety of forums. Following are several recent examples.
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The Value of Participating in Peak Performance Teams
Since the last issue of the Ayers Report, four new Peak Performance Teams (PPTs) have been formed and completed a cycle. Nearly half the 36 participating candidates landed during or shortly after the eight-to-ten-week program. In addition, 75 percent of those participating in the original, ongoing CEO-level team have landed in recent months. A new set of teams is now meeting.
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Successful Landings
An increasing number of job seekers—recognizing the permanent exit of jobs from their industries/fields, looking for a change from the corporate environment, or seeking more control over their lives—are becoming entrepreneurs. To address this growing trend, Ayers’ New York office is sponsoring programs conducted by Keld Alstrup of the Franchise Network (FranNet), a franchise-consulting group. Seminars enable candidates to explore investment choices in the automotive, B2B, educational, foodservice, retail, and personal services fields. One-on-one sessions help candidates assess their personalities, skills, goals, and objectives in terms of finding a suitable investment match. Following are several success stories.
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A Retention Strategy—Your Best Defense in the Coming War for Talent
Athough I’m looking forward to the coming turnaround as much as anyone, I’m concerned that many companies may not be prepared for the talent war that almost certainly will ensue. Employees have stayed in place because they’ve had few, if any, alternatives. Far from being happy, they’ve been demoralized by downsizings, worn out by carrying extra workloads, stifled by the lack of advancement opportunities, disappointed by slim or nonexistent salary increases, and frustrated by bonuses that failed to materialize when performance goals were achieved. No one should be surprised when the mass exodus begins.
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What's New: Managing Across Generations Workshop
Concerned about the almost constant conflict between Veteran and Baby Boomer employees on one hand and Generation-X and -Y employees on the other, a law firm came to The Ayers Group for assistance in addressing the issues. The result is a new program for individuals charged with cross-generational management.
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Staff Announcements
Latest announcements on Ayers employees.
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