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Have you made the mistake of hiring too soon?

Berkonomics

[Email readers, continue here…] But there are many more times in which the near-term future is far less predictable, and when early hiring decisions may be just the wrong move, reducing flexibility and reducing reserve resources.

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5 Strategies To Capitalize On Hard Times In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Past layoffs at big companies usually means more great employees on the market now for newer companies. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Snap up top talent.

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5 Key Recovery Strategies Counter Economic Downturns

Startup Professionals Musings

Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Past layoffs at big companies usually means more great employees on the market now for newer companies. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Snap up top talent.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. We recruit and hire using LinkedIn or other resources, replacing job fairs, campus events and paper resumes. We bypass the middle person for services and information. We are learning to use new tools. Will hotels be next?

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Ixia Cuts 80 Employees

socalTECH

Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools and software, is reporting this morning that it has implemented a "cost reduction initiative" and cut 80 positions from the firm, in what it said was primarily an elimination of duplicate resources from the company's October acquisition of Agilent's N2X product line.

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Hire ahead of need only when growth is stable.

Berkonomics

But there are many more times in which the near term future is far less predictable, and when early hiring decisions may be just the wrong move, reducing flexibility and reserve resources.

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Central Desktop Sees Q4 Increase

socalTECH

In a conversation with socalTECH, the firm's CEO and co-founder, Isaac Garcia, said the company had a record November and December, speculating that the economic environment actually drove adoption of its products. Garcia said that with the economic downturn and layoffs, he suspects there's been a push towards more virtual workers.

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