One of the upsides to the downturn is that recruiting top talent is far easier and more cost effective than during a more positive economic swing. That's certainly the experience of Nathaniel Greene, CEO of Stroud Consulting, a soon-to-be 60-person operations management firm and Consulting magazine's Best Small Firm to Work For in 2008. He is on pace to grow his firm's headcount by 20 percent and expects to add staff at about that pace next year. Consulting's One-on-One sat down with Greene to discuss the advantages to hiring in today's economy.
Consulting: Most firms are finding themselves overstaffed, how do you find yourself with the opposite problem?
