Desperately seeking talent

It all began about 18 months ago, when it started to become increasingly difficult to attract the best, brightest, new talent and retain existing staff.

Desperately Seeking Talent

Everybodys talking about the competition for top talent in todays marketplace. What is your agency doing about it?

Laurie Freeman

Conversations among top advertising agency executives about talent and recruitment are loaded with anecdotes and war stories about the one that got away.

'I just lost a good young account planner to a dot-com,' sighs Bob Jeffrey, president of J. Walter Thompson, New York. 'She said she didnt want to miss the Gold Rush, so shes off to San Francisco to join a dot-com. All I could say was, if it doesnt work out, please come...

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