Testing. Just the word conjures up Big Brother images. “Okay, let the games begin,” I told the secretary who administered the day-long tests. They were for personality and temperament, skills and ...

The recent and dramatic increase in corporate downsizing in response to the recession has surfaced debate about the costs and liabilities inherent in the outplacement process The recent and dramatic ...

Losing your job has never been easy. But today, outplacement — a cushion many laid-off workers relied on to soften the blow and ease their transition to a new job — is getting much stingier. And ...

As layoffs this year top 1.9 million, many more managers and senior professionals are out of work. For some, severance packages include outplacement services — career coaching, resume and job-hunting ...