Detroit Recruiter : Picking on Detroit is a cheap shot
May 6, 2010
As promised, if someone sends in a well thought out rebuttal, we will post it. Below is a complete cut and paste of the e-mail.
Usually I just take your rants in stride but today; not so much. Picking on Detroit is at best, a cheap shot and at worst, unconscionable to those of us still here trying to go about our lives. We can’t do it if we have to constantly explain what is and isn’t true about metro-Detroit.
You’re a smart man. You have to be smart enough to realize that Detroit is not the whole region and Detroit is not some bomb-filled hell. We got hit hard and we got hit first. You are starting to see the same things happening throughout the U.S. You will continue to see it until the agencies start hiring again. Oh, snap, they are hiring here in Detroit!
McCann Erickson just hired 50 people in the past couple of months. Team Detroit is about to hire about the same. GlobalHue is about to do the same. What do these agencies have in common? THEY ARE ALL IN METRO-DETROIT! It should also be noted that none of these agencies are actually located in the city of Detroit.
I recruit for agencies throughout the U.S. so I know that there are plenty of other places that are struggling. Oddly enough, we’re picking up like crazy around here this year. Before the rest of the country.
Why don’t you actually come here and see for yourself? If you have the guts to come near the bombed out city, I will actually show you the sights. If I had a nickel for every candidate who said “I had no idea how nice it was”, I could retire tomorrow.
Something went terribly wrong all right: the U.S. stopped making things. I think we all saw what happened when the financial sector imploded last year. Would you call New York an area in decline?
Rant complete.
A Detroit Recruiter
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