1, Many big banks have put on a hiring freeze and vowed to trim existing staff.

2, Parent Richemont initiated a hiring freeze and job cuts to help it overcome the crisis, which Fornas said was mostly in the past. "The worst, I think, is hopefully behind us."

3, Harvard will also institute a 30-day external hiring freeze for staff jobs to try to match employees who are laid off with current openings.

4, And when a company closes, it may not tell you when the door is shut and where is the forwarding address, not to mention latent hiring freeze and structural terminations.

5, The AP also eliminated other jobs through buyouts and a hiring freeze.

6, In late September, Bank of America began laying off employees in its investment banking unit; just a few days later Morgan Stanley announced a hiring freeze in its i-bank group for the rest of 2010.