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Companies searching for talent create a boom for headhunters
Dahltorp is among a growing number of managers being approached by executive-search firms. With the economy rebounding, companies are hunting hard for proven talent, and creating a boom for the 1,500 or so firms that are in the business of finding it. "The recruitment spree is further evidence that the recovery is moving faster than most businesses anticipated," says Lester Korn, chairman of Los Angeles-based Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest executive recruiter. "Last year was our best since 1977, and 1984 should be even better...
...home-grown industry was spawned by a handful of graduate students and engineering professors, many of whom had studied at leading U.S. universities. Having witnessed the American boom in personal computers, they seized the opportunity to build and sell similar machines in Brazil...
Indeed, the software field has taken on many of the characteristics of the pop-music business. If a new product flops, manufacturers can quickly go from boom to bust. Programmers, the people who write software, can find themselves millionaires at 20 but has-beens at 30. So-called pirates are stealing millions of dollars' worth of programs by copying them illegally...
...sometimes forbidding to the novice computer operator. Instructions can be so complicated that they require hours of study and practice before the programs can be operated with ease. Says Alfred Glossbrenner, author of How to Buy Software: "If there is any single factor that could kill off the computer boom, it is the lack of complete, easily understood instructions...