THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO RECRUITING in Good Times and Bad

摘要

WHEN ECONOMIC CRISIS HITS and companies focus on cutting costs - or on their very survival - they slash hiring.But if history is any guide,in the first few months after the upheaval subsides,hiring quickly becomes a front-burner issue.Consider the period following the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001,when the economic outlook appeared dire.In rapid succession,the U.S.initiated the war in Afghanistan,Enron's house of cards fell,other corporate scandals ensued,the SARS scare struck Asia,and the Iraq War began.The economy was in recession,and struggl ing firms retained only their strongest people.But even before things turned a corner in 2003,the smarter and abler companies - having cleaned house and discovered what was missing from their talent pools-took advantage of the buyer's market and began staffing for the future.By June 2003,the war for talent was on again in full force,and companies hired aggressively until the economy went into a tailspin in 2008.