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Migration: The great U-turn
January 23, 2010

The current economic downturn is dramatically altering the world as we know it – including domestic and global migration patterns. In fact, the Wall Street Journal noted back in June that the biggest turnaround (described as the “great u-turn”) or shift in migration flows since the Great Depression may now be underway. Just take some of the following migration trends into consideration: Read more

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Expatriates abroad: Is it time to return home?
January 17, 2010

With unemployment hovering above 10% in the USA and even higher in many parts of Europe, the prospects for unemployed foreign professionals to find work in the West are looking bleak. In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently noted that foreign based companies, especially those in Asia, are using the bleak employment picture in the USA to lure their country’s citizens back home. Read more

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Surprise: As unemployment grows, so does recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
January 6, 2010

With the USA unemployment rate having reached 10.0% in December and predicted to remain “stubbornly high” until at least the end of next year, it may come as a surprise that recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) continues to grow at a healthy rate of growth. Read more

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RPO gaining in traction
November 22, 2009

The other day I happened to stumble upon a career portal launched by a Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) based textile group that offers video conferencing facilities to recruiters, wanting to widen their multi-cultural resource pool? Read more

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Should you take RPO out for a test drive?
October 8, 2009

With recruiters and HR staff among the first to be laid off at the start of the current economic downturn, they are among the first employees who need to be rehired as the economy and the jobs market finally show some signs of coming back to life. In fact, those employers who have already resumed hiring or are planning to in the near future are starting to realize they don’t or won’t have the internal resources to get their recruiting operations up to the level they need to be in. Read more

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Someone forgot to tell these workers about the recession
October 1, 2009

There is an old joke among economists that a recession is when your neighbor loses his job while a depression is when you lose your job. Looking back at some of my own family’s history, the “Roaring Twenties” never got “roaring” for my Grandmother’s father who worked for the railroad. And despite suggestions from his peers and other family members that he should quit his job and do something more lucrative, he never did. And when the Great Depression hit, he continued working in the same job and ultimately retired some decades later with a full pension from the railroad plus social security. In other words, someone had forgot to tell him there was a boom and then a bust. Read more

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The RPO Baker’s Dozen 2009 results
September 20, 2009

HRO Today magazine has recently released its third annual RPO Baker’s Dozen Ranking to determine the top Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) vendors for 2009. This year’s survey covered about 45 RPO vendors and ranked the top 13 vendors of end-to-end RPO as Read more

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The endangered Western IT professional: Will there ever be a significant hiring uptick?
September 5, 2009

IT layoffs appear to be bottoming out and there are even signs of a slight uptick in hiring in some areas but if you are an unemployed IT professional in the West, you are still an endangered species and don’t expect a sudden surge (and perhaps not even a trickle) of job offers in the immediate future. Read more

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Bad employers, toxic bosses and RPO vendors take note: The downturn is easing
August 30, 2009

After months and months of news about layoffs and rising unemployment, there are signs that the “Great Recession” might be ending soon (or at least easing) and hence, now is a good time to start considering just how bad it really is right now and what a recovery will mean for workers, employers and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) in particular. Read more

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Portfolio careers: Learning how to do the hustle and thrive in globalization
June 19, 2009

Nervous American, British and other workers in Western or developed countries who either fear loosing their full-time jobs or have already lost theirs due to offshore outsourcing, need to realize that their outdated notions of work and what constitutes a career is fundamentally changing forever. In fact, they need to learn how to hustle because full-time employment (unless you work for a government bureaucracy) is on its way out while having a so-called “portfolio career” is in and this will continue to be the trend for the foreseeable future.  Read more

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