Friday, September 28, 2007

Where was I in August?

Ok folks--this blogging thing is new to me and it is hard to remember to keep everyone in the "know" on my whereabouts at any given time--Shoot, its hard for me to keep up with me sometimes. But in August I went to Napa, Mendocino and San Francisco and drank a lot of wine while I pondered the state of recruitment (No, not really that much---more on how I was going to get all that wine back to Memphis).

Other than that, it was recruiting as usual and trying to stay out of the Memphis heat. So Now September is almost up and our clients are clammering for talent now that vacation time is over.

Did you know that someone turns 50 every 7 seconds?

That is just one of the stats I learned at a talent conference in Chicago that Marcus Evans threw a couple of weeks ago. Recruiting leaders at many global companies were there and the buzz revolved largely around Baby Boomers impending retirements, new generational priorities and how any of us were going to find talented people in the future.

I'll be talking more about this subject in our upcoming JobTalk--which will be late by the way-- but nonetheless, a good read --I promise!