"Nearly 300 human resources professionals commiserated over the battles they wage to get and keep good workers during the recruitment conference “The war for talent – winning strategies” Sept. 27-29 in Washington DC” (HR News magazine, November 2000).
As a study by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) indicates, three out of every 10 computer-related vacancies now take six months or longer to fill. Indeed, as the Information Age morphs into the “Information Economy,” human resource leaders and professionals struggle with finding the right people at an increasingly faster pace.
