<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6554eab-7214-4946-aabd-fddd23bbbf46/66A50404-E843-4E61-8B77-54222E42C356/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx" href="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.freelancesupermarket.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx"><P class="box-title">Companies Expect Economic Recovery by End of 2009</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx"><H2>The latest annual Corporate Issues Survey by The Ken Blanchard Companies suggests that over 70% of international companies asked are optimistic about the economy rebounding in 2009</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx"><P> Only a quarter of the 1700 executive, line managers, <A href="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/hot-jobs.aspx">HR and L&D professionals </A>surveyed worldwide thought the downturn would continue unabated into 2010. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/companies-expect-economic-recovery-by-end-of-2009.aspx"><P class="font-10pt"> Since 2003, over 6,700 leaders have participated in Blanchard’s ongoing study. Participants in this year’s survey were asked to describe their organisation’s overall outlook in regards to the economy, training expenditure, expected cuts, and coping strategies. In addition, the survey touched on corporate issues relating to organisational, HR, and management challenges. Responses focused on the most important aspects of future <A href="http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/news/2008/04_2009/budget-2009---full-speech.aspx">corporate growth and employee development</A>, as well as how employees are prepared to deal with these and other hurdles. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/66A50404-E843-4E61-8B77-54222E42C356/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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