UIE 2006 Roadshow: Spots Running Out
January 16th, 2006
We’ve been processing our UIE 2006 Roadshow registrations and, much to our surprise, we only have 5 spots left for the Seattle event.
San Francisco is also close to selling out. And the shows in Atlanta, DC, Philadelphia, and Minneanpolis are climbing quickly to their room capacities.
We’re 6 weeks away from the first event in Atlanta and three months away from the events in Seattle and San Francisco. We’re thinking that we’re going to sell out every single one.
While some of this is due to the hard working efforts of our marketing folks, we have to attribute a lot of this to rebirth interest in skill improvement — a sign that the economy is improving.
When talent is scarce, because unemployment is down, companies are forced to train to keep competitive with their skills, instead of just hiring those skills off the street. About 6 months ago we saw a boom in job postings and now we’re seeing the followup trend of increased spending on training.
The most telling sign was two messages boards at the recent DUX 2005 conference. The one labeled “Jobs” was overflowing with opportunity postings. The one labeled “Resumes” was empty. Good news for people looking for new opportunities, bad news for those of us trying to hire you.
I do love it when the economy is in its boom phase!
