Help Wanted, Dead or Alive

• Author: Amitai Givertz
• Posted: May 28, 2007
• Category: That's Life
• Tags: Applicant Tracking, Talent Management
• Comments:

As I was going through the military blogs this morning to research a somber post for this Memorial Day I came across an incredible report on MSNBC, Army urged dead soldiers to return to duty.
 
Reading about the Army’s sorry leadership and staffing blunder lead me to a reflection very different from the one I imagined I would be sharing now.
 
Thinking about the upset that the families of the 275 officers who were killed or wounded in action, and who subsequently got letters calling them back to active duty must have felt — the insult on injury — has left me subdued for sure.
 
But seeing the MSNBC report also reminded me about something I had read on Dave Lefkow’s blog last week, I see dead people… on ZoomInfo. Reading that post again, and realizing the mortality of your talent pools should not preclude good talent management from leveraging opportunities regardless, gave the Army’s shocking mismanagement in this instance some context.
 
I guess Memorial Day is a day for remembrances and reflections of all sorts, no?