Barack Obama, the new CEO

Barack Obama is the presidential contender that corporate recruiters say they would most likely recruit as CEO of their organizations.

In a recent Jobfox online poll of 573 recruiters, nearly half (49.6 percent) said Obama was likely the best CEO material for their organizations — politics aside — compared to Hilary Rodham Clinton, with 32.8 percent of the vote, and John McCain, with 17.6 percent of the vote.

Hmmm... interesting!! This made me think on another tangent - how far can recruiters keep emotional aspects out of employee selection in day-to-day life? Do they get carried away with popular opinions?

Is Europe Insulated?

Is the United States of America going into a recession or not? A million $ question!!

There are media reports, analyst briefings and of course scores of online surveys saying 'it is', 'it is not' and so on. We need to view all this in the right context. And as a business strategy, there are biggies going to Europe to beat the US recession. Let us pause here... how insulated is Europe anyways !?

For example take UK considered as a key economic indicator of Europe's financial health. Let us see what CBI has got to say about the trend there...
UK’s premier business body, the Confederation of British Industry, has just turned in a survey that shows that Britons are spending less than ever on eating out, gyms, entertainment, and bars, and consumer facing businesses faced the weakest volume and value of business than at any time since 2001 — even though Britons are continuing to go on holiday.

And if confidence has anything to do with tipping the scale towards a downturn, indicators are that things are on the verge of it, probably not, and so on.