RSR’s newest research study, “Walking the Razor’s Edge: Managing the Store Experience in an Economic Singularity,” sponsored by Epicor and SAP, shows retailer recognition that low price alone will not help them gain or maintain market share.
“Perhaps one of the biggest turn-arounds compared to previous studies on this topic is the full-blown recognition within the retail enterprise that store technologies really do matter,” said Paula Rosenblum, managing partner at RSR Research and co-author of the report. “Retailers understand they cannot efficiently maintain or improve the customer experience without it.”
“Retailers still have a long way to go in unlocking the potential of these technologies,” added Brian Kilcourse, managing partner at RSR Research and co-author of the report. “Retailers selling General Merchandise and Apparel have been hardest hit by the economy, and also have the most to gain from taking better advantage of store solutions.”
RSR’s new study, “Walking the Razor’s Edge: Managing the Store Experience in an Economic Singularity,” explores the challenges retailers face in the worst economy of our lifetimes. The report, with benchmark data captured from April and May 2009, provides recommendations on how to improve the in-store experience even in an economic downturn.
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IT Jobs for Graduates, http://www.itjobsforgraduates.com, has launched an initiative called ‘Be Your Best’, http://beyourbest.itjobsforgraduates.com, offering job hunting tips and advice for IT graduates and students during the current economic downturn.
The first site dedicated to IT recruitment for interns and graduates, IT Jobs for Graduates works with some of the UK’s leading employers and IT recruitment agencies, helping candidates to find the right jobs. The website offers 1,800 internship and graduate programmes, as well as entry level vacancies on behalf of recruiters.
‘Be Your Best’ has been created to arm students and graduates looking for IT jobs with useful industry insight. The information is designed to help them stand out from the crowd and market themselves in the best possible way to potential recruiters, during the recession.
Following feedback from IT managers and recruiters, the team at IT Jobs for Graduates has created a knowledge centre. And, throughout May, June and July 2009, it will be releasing a series of articles offering tips and advice on areas including:
- How to make the most of networking opportunities
- What the best IT certifications are
- Managing your own brand
- The reality of the current IT internship/graduate recruitment market
A micro-site has also been launched, http://beyourbest.itjobsforgraduates.com, where students and graduates can provide their feedback, by sending in their stories and videos on something they did to really stand out from the crowd. And, updates for the campaigns will be going on to a twitter page, http://twitter.com/itjobs4grads, and also via the IT Jobs for graduates Facebook group ‘IT begins here’.
In conjunction with the online support, IT Jobs for Graduates will also be holding seminars at selected universities across the UK throughout June. Here, the team will run presentations and provide face-to-face advice on how students can ‘Be Their Best’, they will also provide mini CV workshops.
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With today’s uncertain economic climate, moms across the country are seeking ways to offset the economic downturn with flexible work options. From starting their own home businesses to freelancing and telecommuting, thousands of moms — many of whom are highly educated and experienced — are jumping back into the workforce and choosing to work at home.
These moms now have a new ally and free resources to help them start and market their home businesses. Home Based Working Moms (HBWM) is a professional association and online community of parents who work at home and those who would like to. HBWM.com’s new interactive website provides a variety of tools and resources to help moms network, learn and grow in their role as a home-based working mom, including free business profiles, member directory and networking opportunities.
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“We are seeing a stronger interest from moms wanting to work from home. Many of them are trying to offset lower salaries and/or higher household expenses. Others are seeking to help their family through a layoff or potential layoff. And starting a home business makes sense, as many of these moms can take their past experience or career and begin freelancing from home or start a home business. Our website aims to give them ideas, support, tools and connections to help their businesses flourish,” Lesley Spencer Pyle, HBWM Founder and President says.
The website features interactive profiles allowing members to post their profiles and business information for free. In addition, they can learn from other moms what has worked and what has not in regards to types of businesses, marketing approaches and even parenting challenges.
“I’ve just started my online business and thanks to HBWM, I have received so much help and support from other moms — it’s just overwhelming,” Marcolina Gonzalez, owner of Payless Home Decor & Gifts says.
Pyle is the author of The Work-at-Home Workbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide on Selecting and Starting the Perfect Home Business for You, a columnist with Entrepreneur.com and is also featured on DrPhil.com. She lives in Houston with her husband and four children.
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In the business management sector, if you are not familiar with the various labor code laws, you may find yourself incurring more costs that avoiding them. These costs come in the form of lawsuits and penalties enforced by governing local labor unions if businesses are not careful.
This issue on forced leaves in Taiwan, a practice to which local companies put workers on forced unpaid leave for one or more days a week, is something that would befuddle us. Normally, you would think that if this were done in other countries, labor reps are bound to rush in and protect the employees from unfair labor practices. But apparently, this is non-existent in Taiwan, the latest victim of the recession biting phenomena that has put most companies in the spot of retaining workers or forcefully laying off excess workers.
“When an economic downturn begins to take hold, employers knee-jerk into making dramatic changes,” said Darryl Green, president of Asia Pacific for human resources firm Manpower Inc.
“But there are employers who will stop at nothing to try to retain their valuable workforce. These employers — often in the manufacturing sector where skills are hard to come by — consider innovative alternatives such as shorter working weeks and short-term shut-downs.”
Is this ethical? For contractual workers, there seems to be lesser options. But as far as regular employees, it is doubtful if these practices by companies can be done or gotten away with.
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