About - Recruiter’s View

Sooner or later, everything in real life influences the jobs markets. So, our topics here range all over the place.

In our search to discover and share what’s really going on, we are particularly trying to answer the questions:

  • Where will jobs be created (and why?)
  • Where will jobs be destroyed (and why?)

This is my commentary on what I see and what I think it means.

People sometimes ask my opinion, because they assume a Recruiter’s activity can be a useful indicator.

And in fact, it’s true that I can pick up on changes in the business environment months ahead of the published numbers.

Understanding the implications of those changes is the trick. Daily conversations with business leaders give me the equivalent of perpetual survey results. And talking to candidates is the perfect reality check.

Ultimately, then, my evaluation is largely formed as an extension of what many, many others have been kind enough to share with me.

So, when you think I’ve got it wrong, I encourage you to tell me what you see from your side of the mountain.

We’re all trying to figure this out together.

Thanks for being a part of our effort!

-TD

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Brain Redistribution

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Over the last year, many displaced professionals managed to hire on with federal agencies.  Will their private sector skills bring massive improvements to critical government services?  Perhaps.  To these pros, this work is like picking low hanging fruit.  What will it be worth to the rest of us? I remain certain that governments should not…

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NASA, We Have A Problem

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Mao increased his political control by forcing all highly educated Chinese to leave their jobs and go to work in the rice paddies.  Almost certainly for the same reasons, Obama has ripped our space scientists out of work and thrown them into unemployment.  I wonder which country will invite them to join its space program….

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Business and Industry Leaders Speak Out

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Much to my surprise, leaders of business and industry have been speaking out. They’ve been leading. They’ve been taking positions that could clearly make them vulnerable to political backlash. And they’re doing it anyway. I was astonished to catch Jim Cramer’s 7/21/10 interview with Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco. Mr. DiMicco made a point of saying,…

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