When Corporate Shift Happens

About the Book

In today’s challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure you won’t lose your job because of a merger, a layo , outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to reduce the odds of becoming unemployed. In When Corporate Shift Happens, Andrew L. Oliver provides you with career advice to guide you through each phase of your career, whether you are just starting out, trying to climb the ladder to success, or ghting age discrimination as an older person in the workplace. This guide o ers self-assessment tools for identifying your ideal job and gives strategies for • succeeding in your job, • monitoring the company’s health, • surviving when the company plans to downsize, • nding a new job in less time with less nancial and personal stress, • surviving a merger, • surviving a layo , • surviving unemployment, and • bulletproo ng your career. Using Oliver’s personal and professional experience as a backdrop, When Corporate Shift Happen takes you step-by-step through your career, providing the advice and tips you need to be successful in good times and bad.

About the Author

Andrew Lee Oliver is a business architect and helps businesses become more profitable through the use of automation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and the outsourcing of work both domestically and abroad. Oliver’s experience in these areas includes the following: Established offshore operations in Bangalore and Chennai, India Managed international teams in China, India, Myanmar (Burma), and Canada Provided people, process, and technology analysis as part of M&A teams Worked as chief of staff for the world’s largest business-process-outsourcing project Automated key processes for financial systems and environmental health and safety systems. Andrew has more than fifteen years of consulting and work experience with such corporate luminaries as Bell Labs, Con Edison, ADP, Tyco International, NTT Data, Cegedim, Eli Lilly, and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Andrew is an illustrious thirtythird degree freemason. He has a master’s degree in computer science from Rutgers University, an organizational and executive coaching certificate from NYU, and a Six Sigma Black Belt from the American Society for Quality. He is a certified business architect from the Business Architecture Guild, a certified project manager from the Project Management Institute, and a certified enterprise architect from the Open Group.