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Regional HR Directors meet to celebrate the end of a rollercoaster 2009

Posted: 08.12.09

The Chapman Consulting Group, in conjunction with Organisation Solutions, hosted a Christmas drinks and networking event for more than 30 Regional HR VPs and Directors in Singapore last Friday evening. We welcomed along the Heads of HR from the likes of IBM, BHP Billiton, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank, Energizer, Shell, GlaxoSmithKline, Cargill, Johnson & Johnson, ANZ Bank and various others.

In welcoming attendees to the session, Dr Alison Eyring, CEO of Organisational Solutions, commented on the tumultuous year that was 2009. Matthew Chapman, Managing Director of The Chapman Consulting Group, also spoke of the significant change efforts that many Regional HR Leaders in the HR profession went through during 2009. "2009 started gloomily with HR Leaders in downsizing mode but by mid-year many were hiring again. This was on the back of a similarly unpredictable 2008 which had heavy hiring in the first half of the year, significant uncertainty in quarter 3 which saw the brakes on hiring, and then total free-fall in quarter 4. An incredible 24 months".

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