(a version of the following was originally published in the recent Fordyce Letter)
March Forward. Stay the Course.
Recession... Election.. Slumping Job Index.. Increasing Unemployment Rate.. Diving Dow..
It is tough to stay the course when media messaging is telling us everything around our economy is calling for a slow down; and in reality the only real choice any of us have is... to stay the course. While the course might shift and change a bit, the course we know - the work hard, stay focused, make contacts course, remains the same. When the going gets tough, the real men and women of the staffing industry get tougher. As in the past, a recession serves as a course correction, and as in the past the strong will get stronger, better, and faster; and the weak will go find something else to do.
The Strong Company, Recruiter, and Staffing Agent's job is to analyze their business. Find out what is working and what is not. It is their job to analyze their clients businesses and fully understand what is happening with their end users, as it is the end user that provides all of us with work in the first place. It is the astute staffing and corporate recruiter's responsibility to look out to the future with a curious and open eye and accept the changes that are occurring in business. It is the discerning and strategic staffing industry thinkers’ job to deal with the reality of the changing FLAT world; from globalization, outsourcing and offshoring to RPO, Selection, HR Consulting and everything in between. When conditions for change are right, the astute staffing industry business person has a tremendous opportunity to make their stake and claim their market share; if they are indeed are as open, astute, innovative and grounded in the reality as we know you are.
