Todd Kmiec's Blog – May 2012 Archive (3)

Gen Y - Get To Know Them

Gen Y is coming on the scene and you better get to know them if you are in recruiting. This group is now 18 – 32 years old and they are 60 million strong.



Not the 77 million of the baby boomers but still a very significant driver of the economy. The heavy concentration of third party recruiting activity is on those who are upwardly mobile in their careers. That’s going to be Gen Y for a while.



More importantly, a lot of the growth of the 80s and 90s was credited to the… Continue

Added by Todd Kmiec on May 31, 2012 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Social Value

In his recent book The Coming Jobs War, Jim Clifton says, “The number one social value in the world is a good job.”

He’s right, and the term Good Job is relative.  In some parts of the world a job that pays enough to feed the family is a good job.  To someone living in America who has had a decent career, good is something on the same level as their previous positions, and to someone on their way up good is something better.  Something that progresses the…

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Added by Todd Kmiec on May 30, 2012 at 6:14pm — No Comments

It's The Difficulty, Not The Level

Yesterday I had to be towed because my Suburban broke down about an hour from home. Because I drive a Suburban, we had to have a pretty big truck for the tow. Our driver was great. He typically does the big tractor trailers after wrecks, which is pretty specialized work.



On the ride home he was telling me how they have difficulty finding qualified drivers / recovery specialists. There are a lot drivers out there with a nick on their driving record, or without the problem solving… Continue

Added by Todd Kmiec on May 28, 2012 at 3:01pm — No Comments

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