Thought For The Day: There comes a time, a level, where all the coaching and training in the world won’t change what is.

• Key Influencers
  I’m trying to identify the Top 100 people who influence the shape and content of the HR – HRTech – Recruiting Complex. Please take a moment and let me know who matters.
• The World’s New Numbers
  Amazing article on emerging population trends. Basic takeawy? Beliweve half of what you see and none of what you hear. Demographic forecasting is a provocative art. The core ideas from the War of Talent are changing  before our eyes.
• The places people wish they lived.
  Denver, San Diego, Seattle, Orlando, Tampa, San Francisco top the list
• Magnet or Sticky?
  Recruiting is different from place to place. If your state is a magnet, it’s like recruiting downhill. If your town is sticky, you have to work the locals
• Who Moves and Why
  From the Pew Research folks (pdf). Good report about declining mobility in the United States. Fewer people want to move for the job than ever before.

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  Regional HR Marketing and PR – Tailoring Sales to Market Realities
  - Thursday, May 7, 2009,
  - 10-11 am PT (1-2 pm ET)
• I’m leading an Intensive workshop called Recruiting Strategy in a Down Economy: Identifying What’s to Come in the Upturn at the Kennedy Recruiting Conference in Las Vegas on May 19.