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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Need talented staff? Just buy the entire company ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[This strategy usually fails...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11800-78900]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...if it's in a competitive industry and the purchasing company is poorly run;  The talent they are trying to by is the first to jump ship.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:59:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's happened to my company twice]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The outfit I work for has been bought up that way twice.  In both cases the only layoffs were on the business side of things.  Engineering and production didn't lose anything.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:47:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what I found]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[when a larger company bought the one I was with, was that there were interviews for all, but they said 'don't bother with a resume' and the interviewers seemed to be digging around conversationally for various 'interesting' engineering and technical accomplishments rather than humdrum projects and corporate-style achievement of 'management by objectives' targets. There was a design ongoing at the time. A few months later, when the design had been completed and set in stone, the entire design team was simply dismissed. The field application engineers and marketing were kept.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[opcom]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:52 -0700</pubDate>
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