You say ‘Almost without exception,…95% [recruiting organizations] live in a world of their own, devoid of a competitive spirit and without a plan to make recruiting a competitive advantage for their firm’.

I believe this to be true and I became entangled in a heated argument yesterday over this very subject with one of our own ERE esteemed members. My combatant vociferously expressed the opinion that most recruiters are competitive (skilled in all the functions a recruiter should be doing to be effective) and to make statements like you just did (and that I did yesterday) is painting with far too wide a brush – that it’s only the dum-dums on groups like these (ERE) who show up so ill-equipped and unknowledgeable on the subject of recruiting that gives this impression.

What do you (and others) think?