Well, I am back and barely making it through this scorching summer here in the South. The good news is that the heat has kept me indoors talking to friends and doing more reading than I have in a while.

When I last connected with you we were chronicling some interesting trends in the recruitment arena. I would like to hit you up with more, based on some recent conversations I have had. We are moving pretty quickly toward ERE’s pre-conference lineup September 5 in Hollywood, Florida, and my business, Thought Leadership Institute, has partnered with some very cool speakers to bring a leader’s perspective to some of the challenges we face in recruiting today.

Take Andrea Hough, director of recruiting for Servicemaster. keep reading…

As I consult through my business, the Thought Leadership Institute, I am amazed at the speed of how things are changing in recruiting, even though most of us would still admit that we are in the midst of an economic downturn. Despite not hiring at the rates most of us are used to, this is the time period to prepare ourselves for the tide-change we will be going through soon enough.

In this article, I wanted to provide you with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek perspective on some of these game changers; I’ll begin with three today that are more macro in nature and then I’ll hit you up (I just learned this phrase from my youngest son) with three more in the very near future.

In the meantime, if you’d like to get started learning to be more adaptive, you can join me and TLI at our upcoming pre-conference workshop: A Roadmap to Recruiting Reinvention on September 5 as part of the ERE Expo, where we’ll be joined by Tom McGuire of Coca Cola and other great adaptive leaders in Florida.

Trend Number 1:  Helicopter parents/stay-around kids keep reading…