[Night Hides Not]

I have a theory about this. Does your company have any ideas about why this is happening?

Frankly, ownership is clueless. It's because we have one recruiter who's been here 30 years, is #1 in the state of Texas, and has built quality relationships with clients.

I've played a small role by posting these leads, when they occur, on a finance/accounting network that I've been associated with over the past 18 months. It is limited to those who have earned annual comp of 6 figures.

When I go to the meetings, I often leave shaking my head: there is so much financial/accounting firepower that's unemployed, it's unreal. However, that's still the nature of my field, due to demographics: there's a major glut of 50+ accounting professionals in the marketplace.

What's your theory?

[Alberta's Child]

My theory is that good top-level managers are so hard to find these days because the nature of the world today requires a level of specialization that stunts a person's ability to be a high-level manager. A high-level manager needs to be a good "big-picture" person -- which means he/she has to know a little bit about a lot of different things instead of knowing a lot about one specific area of expertise.

I think an ideal CEO/CFO-type has a broad background in a wide array of areas. These people are increasingly hard to find in an age when everything is so advanced that knowing minute details is almost a necessity.