Surviving the personnel crunch for white-collar help will require a combination of creativity and strategy.
Finding quality talent to build construction projects has become a lamentable chore in recent years. But what about the quality talent to manage those projects? Just as lamentable, according to John Koontz, a professor at Purdue University.
“The problem is everyone’s looking for the same talent, and everyone’s using the same methods to attract that talent,” Koontz said at a seminar titled, “How To Hire A Good Project Manager,” conducted at the 1999 MCAA Conven-tion, Feb. 21-25, in Orlando, Fla.