John Challenger Three Quotations

When you're out for three or four years, you've got book knowledge and the market doesn't want that,

The competition will be fierce for first-time job seekers this year. Not only are there fewer jobs, but the pool of candidates is bigger, ... In addition to their classmates, college graduates will be competing with jobless people formerly in the workforce for one to three years...

The heavy job cutting we have seen over the past three years appears to be trending down, ... However, the job market seems to be in a state of limbo, where companies are eager to hold on to people they have, but many are reluctant to create any new jobs.

If job cuts in the auto industry continue and we start to see consistently high job-cut numbers from the top three job cutters in July, it should set off some relatively loud alarm bells about the state of the job market and economy.

The very heavy downsizing reported in November is more confirmation that the effects of the Sept. 11 attack on the economy have been substantial. In the eight years we have tracked job cuts data, the downsizing for the last three months has been at levels never before seen.