Hired Help
IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATION of how our country recovers from a recession, then the resemblance of current small-business hiring patterns of those of 1990 and 1991 could incicate light at the end of the tunnel.
| PRECENTAGE OF JOB SEEKERS BEING HIRED BY SMALL FIRMS | ||||
SOURCE: Challenger,Gray & ChristmasnInc. | ||||
| PRECENTAGE OF JOB SEEKERS BEING HIRED BY SMALL FIRMS | ||||
SOURCE: Challenger,Gray & ChristmasnInc. | ||||
| You Rang? | ||||
| EVEN WITH THE ADVENT of
wireless Internet, Web sites and email, most business owners
preferred method of keeping in contact with customers is as
old-fashion as Alexander gram Bell SOURCE: Millward Brown | ||||
| Hard Sell | ||||
| A TOUGH ECONOMY
isn't the only thing causing problems for your sales staff.
Their profession could be hurting them as well. In a recent survey,
sales executives blamed their careers for doing the
following: SOURCE: Sales and Marketing Management magazine | ||||
| 7.5% more highly skilled jobs were introduced into the workplace in 2001 than in 2000. SOURCE: Economic Policy Foundation 50% 50% | 25% of all U.S. kids have made an online purchase. SOURCE: SpectraCom 50% |
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This article was originally published in the April 2002 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: It Figures 04/02.
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